Children's Non-Fiction
Featured Items
Castle
Paperback ISBN: 0395329205
Follows the planning, construction, and ultimate testing in battle of a typical fortress with adjoining town built by the English in the thirteenth century as a part of their plan to conquer Wales
Hungry, Hungry Sharks
Paperback ISBN: 0394874714
A simple discussion of the kinds of sharks and their behavior
Hop on Pop
Hardcover ISBN: 039480029x
Pairs of rhyming words are introduced and used in simple sentences, such as "Day. Play. We play all day. Night. Fight. We fight all night."
Miss Mary Mack
Paperback ISBN: 0688097499
A collection of rhymes used in street games remembered from the compilers' childhoods and those of their friends. Includes basic instructions for the activities.
Rosa Parks
Library ISBN: 0791018814
A biography of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, led to a bus boycott that helped galvanize the civil rights movement.
Biggest Riddle Book in the World
Paperback ISBN: 0806988843
A collection of riddles on a wide range of topics for jokesters of all ages.
The Biggest
Hardcover ISBN: 0870334409
Caroline Pickergill helps her mother sew a huge American flag that will fly over Fort McHenry to show everyone that Baltimore is safe from the British
Dinosaurs Divorce
A Guide for Changing Families
Paperback ISBN: 0316109967
Dinosaur characters discuss the subject of divorce in a way that very young children can understand, dealing with such specific issues as why parents divorce and living in two homes
What's Happening to Me?
Paperback ISBN: 0818403128
A sympathetic, honest treatment of the physical and emotional changes occurring during adolescence answers the questions children ask most often
Pompeii...buried Alive!
Paperback ISBN: 0394888669
A simple retelling of the fateful days in 79 A.D. when Mt. Vesuvius erupted and the people in the ancient town of Pompeii perished.
