Update June 24, 2024: My thinking about nonfiction classification has evolved since I wrote this post, but I’ve decided not to delete it because there’s value in looking back at my past ideas. For my current thinking, please see the book 5 Kinds of Nonfiction as well as information on my website.
Eyewitness
Books
Q and A Books
Animal Grossapedia by Melissa Stewart
The Guinness Book of World
Records
The Truth About
Poop by Susan E. Goodman (illus. Elwood H. Smith)
Plus)
Is Not a Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano
to Expect When You’re Expecting Larvae: A Guide for Insect Parents (and Curious
Kids) by Bridget
Heos
Makers by Rebecca
L. Johnson
Bomb by Steve Sheinkin
Tree Frog
by Joy Cowley
View by
April Pulley Sayre (illus Steve Jenkins)
for Ice by
Sandra Markle
Disciplinary
Thinking (Experts at Work)
the Rock
by Lee Berger and Mark Aronson
and Answer)
Most books by Peter Lourie
If Stones Could
Speak by
Marc Aronson and Mike Parker
What Bluebirds Do by Pamela F. Kirby
Written in Bone by Sally M. Walker
(Point of View)
Charles and
Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
An Egg Is
Quiet by Diana Hutts Aston (illus. Sylvia Long)
Those Rebels, John & Tom by Barbara
Kerley (illus.
Edwin Fotheringham)
Action
Citizen
Scientists
by Loree Griffin Burns
Experiments
You Can Eat
by Vicki Cobb
I Face the
Wind by
Vicki Cobb
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