Our goal is to review the best nonfiction books for children, and in 2012 we saw a lot of excellent nonfiction. Unfortunately, we were not able to review all of the books we had hoped to.
Here is our list of 2012 titles we wished we had reviewed:
Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman
Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman by Marc Tyler Nobleman/ illustrated by Ty Templeton
Bon Appetit!: The Delicious Life of Julia Child by Jessie Hartland
Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily and Anne by Catherine Reef
Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by Robert Byrd
The Fairy Ring or Elsie and Frances Fool the World by Mary Losure
Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim/ illustrated by Bryan Collier
A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave or To Return by
Zeina Abirached
The Great Molasses Flood: Boston, 1919 by Deborah Kops
Harlem's Little Blackbird by Renee Watson
Helen's Big World: The Life of Helen Keller by Doreen Rappaport/ illustrated by Matt Tavares
Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure by Jim Murphy
Looking at Lincoln by Maira Kalman
Noah Webster & His Words by Jeri Chase Ferris/ illustrated by Vincent X. Kirsch
One Times Square: A Century of Change at the Crossroads of the World by Joe McKendry
Secrets of the Garden: Food Chains and the Food Web in Our Backyard by Kathleen W. Zoehfeld/ illustrated by Prscilla Lamont
Spirit Seeker: John Coltrane's Musical Journey by Gary Golio/ illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson
Wild Horse Scientists by Kay Frydenborg
We're looking forward to what 2013 will bring to the world of children's nonfiction!
I love The Fairy Ring! But I'm not sure if that's just because I love a great hoax :)
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