• NF10for10 2018: Sidebars are Not for Skipping

    As a kid, I’m pretty sure I only read sidebars if they looked interesting. But there are a whole bunch of nonfiction picture books with excellent sidebars. As a writer and a librarian I’ve been keenly interested in nonfiction books that have two levels of text—a main text and…

  • NF 10 for 10: Nonfiction Poetic Picture Books

      I’ve been reading a lot of nonfiction picture books lately because we are doing a nonfiction mentor text book study at my school using FINDING THE HEART OF NONFICTION by Georgia Heard.   One of the things I admire about nonfiction is an author’s ability to convey facts…