Nonfiction Monday

Welcome to Nonfiction Monday! Please leave your posts in the comments and I will arrange them in exquisite order throughout the day. It looks like we are going to have a great line-up, heavy on the animals and biographies as always though. Alas for the poor 001s, 200s, and 700s!

Yay! Some more for our neglected Deweys!

001s: All the weird stuff and library organization (think about that for a minute)

• Finding Bigfoot and Alien Worlds at Bookends
• All right! These won't win awards but they will check out like CRAZY I can tell you for certain sure!

200s: Religion, mythology, and other things that I forget

• Giving thanks: poems, prayers, and praise songs of Thanksgiving by Katherine Paterson at Sonderbooks

300s: Culture, holidays, fairy tales, and scary stories (maybe that's only in my library?)

• Sarah gives thanks by Mike Allegra at Hope is the Word
• The story of Sarah Josepha Hale, who helped make Thanksgiving a national holiday.

500s: Science, including weather, dinosaurs, math, and wild animals (tame animals live elsewhere)

• Eight dolphins of Katrina by Janet Wyman Coleman at proseandkahn
• A survival/animal story. Technically, even though they live in a zoo, dolphins are still wild animals.
• Frog Song by Brenda Guiberson at Wrapped in Foil
• Roberta sings the praises of this marvelous celebration of frogs

600s: Applied technology, which in Dewey's world means farming and swords. And domesticated animals! If you can pet it, it's a 600.

• Kate and Pippin by Martin Springett at Perogies and Gyoza
• If you're all about animal friendships, this story of a bond between a dog and a fawn will make you awwwww.

700s: We have sports!

• Snomobile Snocross by Darice Bailer at Anastasia Suen's Booktalking #Kidlit
• We have a 700! Get ready for winter sports!

900s: History, biography, and shipwrecks

• John F. Kennedy: A photographic story of a life by Howard S. Kaplan at Kid Lit about Politics
• A review of a DK book about Kennedy with some personal comments from the blog author.
• Two titles by Deborah Hopkinson about Marian Anderson and Matthew Henson at A Teaching Life
• Tara not only has some information on these two historical picture books, she also gives a look at some happenings at NCTE.
• Noah Webster and his words by Jeri Chase Ferris at Sally's Bookshelf
• Includes some interesting ideas for activities and other titles to pair with the book.
• Locomotive by Brian Floca at Jean Little Library (yes, right here)
• I review a historical picture book! Gasp in wonder!
• Boy who loved math by Deborah Heiligman at True Tales & A Cherry On Top
• A review of a picture book biography about a famous (and eccentric) mathematician
• Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb at Apples with many seeds
• A fascinating look at the capture of Eichmann.