Founded by Adam Lancaster and organised by the Federation of Children's Book Groups, this annual event promotes factual reading for pleasure among children and young people. The whole month now celebrates all those readers that have a passion for information and facts and attempts to bring non fiction celebration in line with those of fiction.
This year’s theme is ‘Reading is an Adventure’. It will be encouraging children and young people to use non-fiction books in the outside world – not just to read them, but to use the information in a more practical way. For example, read a book about bugs and then be inspired to go on your own bug hunt. Another example could be to read about learning a skill and then doing the skill, or read about a place then go to it. The topics will be Bugs, Animals, People, Places, Nature, and Adventures at Home.
The Federation of Children's Book Group has a suggested reading list here, but you do not have to stick to their books. You can do a display that includes your own suggestions. Nonfiction books have changed greatly in the time I have been a teacher librarian.
The internet has meant that there is less of the traditional nonfiction book that was used for research. They had short titles that told you what the book was about, photographs, contents pages, an index and a glossary. Now there is much more browsable nonfiction with superb illustrations.
I have written about this month before here and made several suggestions as to authors and illustrators who do wonderful nonfiction. The Read and Wonder series, now known as Nature Storybooks are also examples of great nonfiction for young children.
Back to the bug theme...I'm going to include these in a display:
The Book of Brilliant Bugs by Jess French and Claire McElfatrick
There are Bugs Everywhere by Britta Teckentrup
Big Book of Bugs by Theresa Greenaway
Leaf Litter by Rachel Tonkin
Backyard by Ananda Braxton-Smith and Lizzy Newcomb
and these
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