Nonfiction Wednesday

I'm excited that Alyson Beecher, at Kid Lit Frenzy, is continuing her Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge for the third year in a row.

 

 

This is the nonfiction I read this week:

 

 

The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry by Peter Sis

 

 

Having just finished the adult historical fiction novel, The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin, about Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, this gave me an interesting perspective on a French pilot in the same era. I read The Little Prince years ago. This book makes me want to read it again. As in Sis's other books, there is so much information and intricate illustrations throughout.   You can't really read a Sis book aloud easily.  You'll want to introduce it and then leave it our for kids to pour over.  Beautiful!     Plant a Pocket of Prairie by Phyllis Root, illustrated by Betsy Bowen   I couldn't resist...       It's so sad that most of our natural prairies are gone. I remember reading Little House on the Prairie and marveling at the setting of that wonderful book.   Beautiful illustrations and poetic text explains that we can each do our part by planting pockets of prairie in our own backyards to encourage lots of wildlife to come visit. Good information at the back of the text about prairies and the wildlife that live in them.