Philip Clarke (text) & Stephen Lambert (illustrations) (Usborne) My five-year old daughter is a fan of stories. She does not enjoy non-fiction and it is always a struggle to make her read her school reading books when they are non-fiction. Unless it involves puppies. If it involves puppies, she will look at just about anything …
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Non-Fiction Focus Week: Tudors: A High-Speed History
Terry Deary (text) & Dave Smith (illustrations)(Scholastic) The Horrible Histories books have sold in their millions. They are amongst the most successful non-fiction series for youngsters ever published, if not the most successful. It is easily to see why; Terry Deary manages to make history exciting, with humour, gore and sometimes very obscure but accurate …
Non-Fiction Focus Week
As it is National Non-Fiction Day this Thursday I have decided to dedicate the whole week to non-fiction. As a school librarian, I am always encouraging students to read non-fiction for leisure if that is what they enjoy; after all, who is to say that fiction reading is more worthy? What I am interested in is …