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Your Favorite Non-Fiction Answering "WHEN?"January 7, 2009We're on Day 3 of a 7-day non-fiction stretch! Yesterday was "WHAT?" Monday was "WHO?" Today is "WHEN?" which means it's your turn to rave about your favorite non-fiction books about history. OR about the subject of time, I suppose. (Though I might call that "WHAT?" or "HOW?" or "HUNH?" because it's such a mind-bending concept. Read Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman if you know not of what I speak.) Posted by Alison Morris on January 7, 2009 | Comments (9)
January 7, 2009
In response to: Your Favorite Non-Fiction Answering "WHEN?" Boni Ashburn commented: An Island Grows by Lola M. Schaefer and Cathie Felstead. It could fit several of the question words, but I think it fits "when" best. It takes a cause-and-effect look at the growth of an island and the chain reaction really drives the book along with the short, tight verse. Beautiful collage illustrations, lovely to read aloud AND informative- I love this book.
January 7, 2009
In response to: Your Favorite Non-Fiction Answering "WHEN?" K. Appelt commented: GIANTS IN THE LAND, by Diana Applebaum, is an amazing look at the once-enormous white pines of New England and the roles they played in both the colonization of North America and in the defeat of the British Army.
January 7, 2009
In response to: Your Favorite Non-Fiction Answering "WHEN?" Loree Griffin Burns commented: The first book on my When? list would have been WE ARE THE SHIP, by Kadir Nelson ... but you beat me to it, Alison. Here are some other favorites...
January 7, 2009
In response to: Your Favorite Non-Fiction Answering "WHEN?" ShelfTalker commented: I second all of these great suggestions so far and have to add that I laughed my a** off reading Knucklehead and am so happy to see it mentioned it here! (Thank you, Boni!) It's truly one of the most entertaining non-fiction books I've read. As is the quite-similar-but-for-an-older-audience King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher.
January 7, 2009
In response to: Your Favorite Non-Fiction Answering "WHEN?" Boni Ashburn commented: Alison- Have you read How Angel Peterson Got His Name by Gary Paulsen too? If you loved Knucklehead, it's a MUST read. I'll check out the Crutcher book :)
January 7, 2009
In response to: Your Favorite Non-Fiction Answering "WHEN?" cwvirden commented: THE BOYS' WAR by Jim Murphy. Notable for its history and for a glimpse of what passed for boyhood in the mid 19th Century.
January 7, 2009
In response to: Your Favorite Non-Fiction Answering "WHEN?" Connie Rockman commented: My all-time favorite is one of Jim Murphy's lesser-known but most fascinating titles - ACROSS AMERICA ON AN EMIGRANT TRAIN. Also a 'who' book because it's based on the diaries of Robert Louis Stevenson about his journey to visit his lady-love in California, but he paints a very realistic picture of our country in 1879. The hazards of air travel today pale by comparison to the hazards of rail travel in the 19th century. A great read.
January 8, 2009
In response to: Your Favorite Non-Fiction Answering "WHEN?" Susan Goodman commented: Sorry I'm late here, I'm out of town and can't get all the titles right--but I'm a fan of Jim Murphy's book about the Chicago fire, was it called The Great Fire. I'll suggest Middle Passage again by Tom Feelings, Orphan Train Rider by Andrea Warren, and the new book that is something like What was King George's Problem is pretty delightful. As always my fellow nonfiction bloggers at I.N.K. have some great books that fall into this category.
January 9, 2009
In response to: Your Favorite Non-Fiction Answering "WHEN?" Mary Louise commented: Mine would be "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman, set in a future without humans and showing what's left and how the world will go on. It's fascinating!
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