Informational Picture Books

Forest Explorer: A Life-Size Field Guide
by Nic Bishop

This book is so much fun. I feel as though a teacher could use it for either an elementary classroom or a middle school classroom. While it seems as though it is more for younger kids the information on the different levels of the forest is very accurate and detailed. It has pages that look as if you are examining the level or season yourself. I think it would really be such a great learning tool for a science or environmental class. I was attracted to this book because of the cover but really found so much value in it that I choose it to share with the class. The pictures are actual pictures and it is just full of useful information and facts on the forest.



How Nearly Everything Was Invented
by the Brainwaves

This book is so much fun to read and to look at. This could be extremely useful in a history class. It has literally any invention you can think of in the book. Each page folds out on both side and has information about who, where, why, and how hundreds of things were invented. The book is broken into different categories and then each category is broken into different years. This book would be interesting for a student to read on their own but would be very helpful in the classroom as well. The book is colorful and exciting to learn from and might help get kids excited about a unit on inventions and the history of them.