NF Sightings at the ALA Midwinter Conference

Today I returned home from the ALA Midwinter Conference in Boston where thousands of librarians, authors and publishers took over Beantown. I'm tired yet energized after spending time with fellow librarians, attending committee meetings and publisher events, and viewing 2016 titles in the Exhibit Hall. I also had the pleasure of attending book previews hosted by Scholastic, Candlewick Press, Chronicle, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Holiday House and Boyds Mill Press. 2016 looks like a year for more amazing nonfiction, especially science books as well as books about presidents.

I ended the conference by waking up very early to attend the ALA Youth Media Awards this morning where nonfiction books received a lot of love. (Look for an awards blog post later this week.)

Cathy

Thanks to Candlewick Press for the visit to their office in Somerville, MA.

Here are some of the new, nonfiction titles spotted at the ALA Midwinter conference. 

We Will Not Be Silent by Russell Freedman

Clarion Books

You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen 

by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffrey Boston Weatherford

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

The Slowest Book Ever by April Pulley Sayre and Kelly Murphy

Boyds Mill Press

Science Comics: Dinosaurs

by MK Reed and Joe Flood

First Second

Hillary by Jonah Winter and Raul Colon

Schwartz & Wade

Grover Cleveland, Again! by Ken Burns and Gerald Kelley

Knopf Books for Young Readers

Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea by Robert Burleigh and Raul Colon

Simon & Schuster

Bridge to the Wild by Caitlin O’Connell and Timothy Rodwell

HMH Books for Young Readers

The Story of Seeds by Nancy F. Castaldo

HMH Books for Young Readers

Crossing Niagara by Matt Tavares

Candlewick

The Great White Shark Scientist by Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America by Gail Jarrow

Calkins Creek

Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass 

written by Dean Robbins, illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko

Orchard Books- Scholastic

Around America to Win the Vote by Mara Rockliff and Hadley Hooper

Candlewick

The Secret Subway by Shana Corey and Red Nose Studio

Schwartz & Wade

Dorothea’s Eyes by Barb Rosenstock and Gerard DuBois

Calkins Creek

Some Writer: The Story of E.B. White by Melissa Sweet

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Seven and a Half Tons of Steel by Janet Nolan and Thomas Gonzalez

Peachtree Publishing

Will’s Words: How Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk

by Janet Sutcliffe and John Shelley

Charlesbridge

Masters of Disguise: Amazing Animal Tricks by Rebecca L. Johnson

Lerner

Lincoln and Kennedy: A Pair to Compare by Gene Barretta

Henry Holt and Co.

To the Stars: The First American Woman to Walk in Space

by Carmella Van Vleet, Dr. Kathy Sullivan and Nicole Wong

Charlesbridge