Reading = Learning: Informational Picture Books

There are a lot of great informational picture books that children can learn a lot from.  So this week, I'm sharing some of my favorite informational picture books . . . .

Rah, Rah, Radishes! A Vegetable Chant by April Pulley Sayre
Photographs of vegetables and rhyming text celebrate vegetables in all their colorful and tasty variety.

A Nest Is Noisy by Dianna Aston
Introduces the world of nests, revealing the variety created by the world's birds, animals, and insects.

John, Paul, George & Ben by Lane Smith
A humorous look at five of our country's founding fathers.

We March by Shane Evans
Illustrations and brief text portray the events of the 1963 march in Washington, D.C., where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a historic speech.

More Books --
A Beetle Is Shy by Dianna Aston
Big and Small, Room for All by Jo Ellen Bogart
The Cloud Book by Tomie de Paola
Cold, Crunchy, Colorful: Using Our Senses by Jane Brocket
Hippos Can't Swim and Other Fun Facts by Laura Lyn DiSiena
How Tall, How Short, How Far Away by David Adler
I Don't Like Snakes by Nicola Davies
If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty
Magnets Push, Magnets Pull by David Adler
Masterpiece Mix by Roxie Munro
Older Than the Stars by Karen C. Fox
One Giant Leap by Robert Burleigh
Pluto Gets the Call by Adam Rex
A Second Is a Hiccup: A Child's Book of Time by Hazel Hutchins
Soar High, Dragonfly! by Sheri Mabry Bestor
Telling Time by Jules Older
What Is Science? by Rebecca Kai Dotlich
The Whole Story of the Doughnut by Pat Miller

Check these and more informational picture books out on display at the Arnold Branch through September 25, 2020.

Learning Is For All Ages: Non-Fiction Picture Books

This week, I'm sharing informational picture books.  Here are a few of my favorites . . . .

A Beetle Is Shy by Dianna Aston
Introduces the world of beetles, describing their life cycle, colors, sizes, and why they are important to the world's ecosystems.

Eight Days Gone by Linda McReynolds
Depicts, in brief verse and illustrations, the 1969 Apollo 11 mission when man first walked on the moon.

Up! Up! Up! Skyscraper by Anastasia Suen
Invites readers to watch workers dig, pour, pound, and bolt a skyscraper into existence.

What Is Science? by Rebecca Dotlich
Introduces young readers to the world of science and all it encompasses.

We March by Shane Evans
Illustrations and brief text portray the events of the 1963 march in Washington, D.C., where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a historic speech.


More Informational Picture Books --
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom by Angela Johnson
Apples, Apples Everywhere! Learning About Apple Harvests by Robin Koontz
Big and Small, Room for All by Jo Ellen Bogart
Born and Bred in the Great Depression by Jonah Winter
The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs by Kate Messner
Cold, Crunchy, Colorful: Using Our Senses by Jane Brockert
Dinosaurs Roar, Butterflies Soar by Bob Barner
Earthrise: Apollo 8 and the Photo That Changed the World by James Gladstone
Fabulous Frogs by Martin Jenkins
Gravity by Jason Chin
Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Numbers by Sarah C. Campbell
Have You Heard the Nesting Bird? by Rita Gray
Hey, Hey, Hay! by Christy Mihaly
Hippos Can't Swim and Other Fun Facts by Laura Lyn DiSiena
How Did That Get in My Lunchbox: The Story of Food by Chris Butterworth
How Tall, How Short, How Far Away by David A. Adler
I Don't Like Snakes by Nicola Davies
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla by Katherine Applegate
Life in the Boreal Forest by Brenda Z. Guiberson
Magnets Push, Magnets Pull by David A. Adler
The Marvelous Things That Came from a Spring by Gilbert Ford
Masterpiece Mix by Roxie Munro
One Giant Leap by Robert Burleigh
Punctuation Celebration by Elsa Knight Bruno
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
A Second Is a Hiccup: A Child's Book of Time by Hazel Hutchins
Subtraction Action by Loreen Leedy
Things That Float and Things That Don't by David A. Adler
Tugboat by Michael Garland
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins
The Wing Wing Brothers Math Spectacular by Ethan Long
Yak Yak: Animal Word Pairs by Linda Sue Park

Check these and more books out on display at the Arnold Branch through May 31, 2019.