(7)Nonfiction Lesson 1 (8) Nonfiction Lesson 1 Grow Your Own Sandwich (display cover) Dr. Seuss. (display cover) This book is a good reference book about A biography is book about a person’s life. Dr. Seuss is an example of a biography. Let’s find out how Dr. Seuss became an author. growing tomatoes. The third type of nonfiction book is called a biography. (read pp 4-11) That was interesting. Dr. Seuss made advertisements, and at first no one would publish his books. They he went on to write many books. (Display Appendix 1 Let’s Learn About Nonfiction) (9) Nonfiction Lesson 1 We learned a lot today about our new unit on nonfiction. Readers of nonfiction take a closer look at the interesting places, and things in the world. We can read a literary nonfiction book or magazine article that will inform us about the topic as well as entertain us with a story. We can use a nonfiction reference book to find specific facts, and we can also read nonfiction about a person’s life called a biography.