Brief Histories of Everyday Objects
10 best books like Brief Histories of Everyday Objects (Andy Warner): Mama Says: A Book Of Love For Mothers And Sons, Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far), A Child's Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn about the Magic Words That Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles and Made Us Laugh and Cry, Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything, The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature, The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science, How to Speak Cat: A Guide to Decoding Cat Language, Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today
| Author | Rob D. Walker |
| ISBN | 0439932084 |
Two-time Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon bring to life these words of wisdom about living life with compassion and courage. Written in rhyming text, this is a "must have" for every family.
Gentle, but powerful life lessons spoken to a child, delivered with a mother's immutable love....
| Author | Nathan Hale |
| ISBN | 1419708082 |
World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative, and lively,...
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 1328810151 |
In the tradition of Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust Bowl and Sibert Honor winning Drowned City, The Unwanted is an important, timely, and eye-opening exploration of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the harsh realities...
| Author | Dave Barry |
| ISBN | 1423340868 |
I think Dave Barry retired at the right time. I grew up loving his humor, but it's become more and more formulaic as time goes on, and there's only so many times that the letters in someone's name rearranged, or a goofy suggested band name, or even, dare I say it, a fart joke, can be funny. This book is mostly...
| Author | Michael Driscoll |
| ISBN | 1579122825 |
This is a nice hardback book with an extremely diverse selection of poetry. Along with the explanations of the different forms of poetry; you will find little biographies of some famous Poets, and an accompanying CD of poetry that is read aloud.
Some forms of poetry you will find include; Nursery...
| Author | Kathleen Krull |
| ISBN | 0670011142 |
Always cast in a supporting role in the many books about Marco Polo, the great Kubla Khan now takes center stage in a splendid picture-book biography. He is a wonderful subject-a man who liked to live large, building the imperial city of Beijing from scratch, siring a hundred children, throwing birthday...
| Author | Jacob Lentz |
| ISBN | 1608190250 |
Ever since our ancestors first set eyes on a woolly mammoth and agreed that it needed hunting, human beings have been making judgments about animals. The king cobra: That's an A-plus animal. The garden snail? D-minus. On a good day.
In Animal Review, Jacob Lentz and Steve Nash give authoritative...
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 1426311087 |
Growing up in South Dakota, Adrienne Mayor was the quiet girl who never raised her hand in class. Instead, she loved to wander the prairie seeking wonders and filling her mind with stories.
When she found herself in Athens, Greece, she plunged into reading the original versions of ancient myths--especially...
| Author | Aline Alexander Newman |
| ISBN | 1426318634 |
We know cats are beautiful, secretive, and independent ... but even the most loyal cat owners are often baffled by their own pet's behavior. With veterinarian expert Dr. Gary Weitzman as guide, this fun book helps kids understand what cats are trying to communicate by their body language and behavior....
| Author | Cynthia Levinson |
| ISBN | 1561459453 |
Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in the US Constitution.
Husband-and-wife team Cynthia and Sanford Levinson take readers back to the creation of this historic document and discuss how contemporary problems were first introduced--then they offer possible...
| Author | Francesca Gould |
| ISBN | 1585427578 |
Weird and gross facts about history, the human body, and the natural world are presented in short entries. As is typical with these sorts of books, I think some of the info was a little exaggerated.
I do like that the author educates readers about the gross (and cruel) origin of the hormone replacement...
| Author | Patrick Dillon |
| ISBN | 0763669903 |
Aspiring architects will be in their element! Explore this illustrated narrative history of buildings for young readers, an amazing construction in itself.
We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them. We go to school in them. We work in them. But why and how did people start...
| Author | Sarah C. Campbell |
| ISBN | 1590785541 |
The wolfsnail hunts its prey: other snails. This true tale of horror begins in the leaf litter beside a quaint porch in Jackson, Mississippi. The wolfsnail is on the prowl. Big, strong, and fast (for a snail), the wolfsnail has a taste for meat. In some areas, it is called the cannibal snail. It has earned...
| Author | Barbara Kerley |
| ISBN | 1426304617 |
One World, One Day uses exquisite, moving photographs and Barbara Kerley’s poetic text to convey a simple yet profound concept: we are one global family. This is a sophisticated concept book, presented as an elegant picture book with contributions from top international photographers.
This...
Many people say Marco Polo was the greatest explorer that ever lived, traveling 33, miles by land and sea from Venice, Italy, to modern-day Beijing, China. His famous book, The Travels of Marco Polo, indicates that he was a man of extraordinary bravery, brilliance, and strength. With his uncle and father,...
| Author | Steve Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0060536004 |
Let's-Read-and-Find-Out about
Endangered Animals
Have you seen a northern hairy-nosed wombat or an eastern barred bandicoot? These animals are so rare, they might disappear forever, and they're not alone. Read and find out about some of the animals that are almost gone.
Introduce...
| Author | John Bemelmans Marciano |
| ISBN | 1596916532 |
An encyclopedia of linguistic biographies: the witty, illustrated stories of the Earl of Sandwich, Charles Boycott, and other historical figures better known as words than people.
Eponymous, adj. Giving one's name to a person, place, or thing.
Anonymous, adj. Anonymous.
Anonyponymous,...
| Author | Margie Palatini |
| ISBN | 1419714880 |
The publisher and author of Under a Pig Tree seem to be having communication issues. The author has written a clear, no-nonsense history of figs. But the publisher is sure she meant pigs. After all, what’s the difference between two measly letters? What results is a hilarious illustrated history...
When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders
| Author | J. Patrick Lewis |
| ISBN | 1452101191 |
In moving verse, Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis gives new voice to seventeen heroes of civil rights. Exquisitely illustrated by five extraordinary artists, this commanding collection of poems invites the reader to hear in each verse the thunder that lies in every voice, no matter how small....
Over the course of history, famous people made mistakes that were so monumental they could never escape them, no matter how brilliant their successes! Ferdinand Magellan is credited as the first man to sail around the world . . . but he only actually made it halfway. His terrible treatment of everyone...
| Author | Jon Scieszka |
| ISBN | 0062316524 |
Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. The fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable—and 100% true. A star-studded group of award-winning...
| Author | Jeremy Whitley |
| ISBN | 1632291401 |
Friends, mark your calendars. On this day, I, being of sound(ish) mind and body, do admit to actually enjoying a love triangle in a story.
I KNOW.
Being fair to me, this love triangle contains absolutely no boys. It is three queer girls being uncertain and wibbly about each other and...
