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Nonfiction Books for KidsFall 2025 |
The Extraordinary History of Witches
by Hazel Atkinson
Travel through time and across the globe to uncover bewitching tales of historical witch trials, folklore, and potions. This book covers everything from the origin of the word "witch" to the modern-day beliefs of Wiccans. Meet magical women, and hear about different forms of magic, from Ancient Egyptian Heka to South American Brujeria.
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A Kids Book About Positive Mindset
by Erin Santamaria
Building a positive mindset is the key to cultivating healthy thoughts! Each of us thinks thousands of thoughts every single day. That's pretty amazing! But that doesn't mean every thought is helpful. In fact, some of them can be pretty harmful. What do we do? This book is all about building up a positive mindset and how to manage your thoughts. The more we push back on the negative ones, the less powerful they are, which gives us lots of room for positive growth!
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Make Good Trouble: Discover Movements That Sparked Change
by Jamia Wilson
Explore famous moments of global activism throughout history with more than 70 narrative stories, including the Freedom Summer Project of 1964 and Greta Thunberg's first School Strike for Climate, in a book with tips for how kids can get involved.
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Some of Us: A Story of Citizenship and the United States
by Rajani LaRocca
Discover what it means to become a U.S. citizen and how the process unfolds, in a nonfiction book outlining how people travel to the United States to live, work, study and contribute to the fabric of new communities.
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Big Book of Verbs
by Tarō Gomi
Welcome back to the world of Taro Gomi, this time packed with playful action words! Step into each bustling scene, delight every immersive illustration, and learn words all the wonderful while! Learn all kinds of action verbs with the help of best-selling picture book author-illustrator Taro Gomi! When you're in Taro Gomi's illustrated world, every page comes alive, from a bustling marketplace and a school to a pool and a lively zoo. In each scene, labeled illustrations show kids and adults performing everyday activities, including eating, sleeping, dressing, and laughing, all so that little readers may learn new words as they play away!
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Talking Rocks and Minerals: Fact-Packed Guide to Geology
by Paige Towler
Let's talk rocks. No, let's let rocks talk! Pebble the Rock Reporter is ready to interview a whole host of rocks and minerals to get the scoop on the fundamentals of geology. Rocks and minerals have lots to tell us, and they are ready for their close-up! Explaining how different rocks and gemstones form from minerals.
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Magic Tree House Fact Tracker: Dinosaurs
by Will Osborne
Find out what dinosaurs looked like, where they lived, how they survived, the difference between flesh-eaters and plant-eaters and more, in a book filled with fun facts about the prehistoric creatures, presented in a nonfiction graphic novel format.
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The Deadliest Flower
by Eleanor Spicer Rice
Meet the deadliest flowering plants on Earth. Whose toxin is the most potent? Is it the beautiful belladonna? The eye-catching angel's trumpet? The infamous wolfsbane? Or something else? The host of this stiff competition, Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice, teaches the rules for poisonous plant interactions (Do not eat! Do not pick!) and introduces the contestants.
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Axolotls
by Chris Bowman
Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to axolotls. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade.
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The Secret Life of a Sea Turtle
by Maddalena Bearzi
Follow the exciting and sometimes perilous life of a sea turtle in this robust nonfiction tale by sea turtle expert Maddalena Bearzi and illustrated by Alex Boersma.
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Tomatoes on Trial: The Fruit v. Vegetable Showdown
by Lindsay H. Metcalf
In the late 1800s, American produce king John Nix just wanted to sell tomatoes. But when import taxes on popular vegetables impacted his profits, he knew he had to remedy the situation. Nix set out to prove that tomatoes, which have seeds and grow on vines, were clearly fruits. That was the claim Nix argued all the way to the US Supreme Court. With Nix on Team Fruit, and the US government on Team Vegetable, both sides slung definition after definition in an epic, legal food fight.
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Happy Holidays
by Shari Last
Discover the Pokémon who love a sparkly surprise, can rustle up a feast, or will make you shiver with their icy skills. Have fun spotting Squirtle in a snowball fight, or Pikachu in a cute woolly hat. Plus, you can test your Pokémon skills with cool quizzes, puzzles, and games, everything you need to make the winter season even more merry!
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My First Day Fishing : A Beginner's Guide
by Will Millard
This comprehensive handbook provides step-by-step instructions for everything a young angler might need to know on their first freshwater fishing trip. Fully illustrated throughout, it covers everything from tackle to ties, rods to rigs, knots to hooks, and baits to lures and flies! It also includes a fish-identification guide, together with advice on how to care for your catch.
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Wriggle and Buzz: My First Book of Bugs
by Simon Mole
What was the first animal to walk on land? Or fly through the sky? The answer is a bug - and for every human on earth today, there are more than 1.4 billion of these ubiquitous creatures. From the New Zealand glowworms whose slimy "fairy lights" catch flies and gnats to the earthworms whose little tunnels bring water and air to plants, from the ladybugs keeping vegetable gardens safe from pesky pests to the common fly working as clean-up crew for the stinky stuff we'd rather not think about, this bright, bouncy introduction to bugs shows the ways that we need them more than they need us.
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Our World in Numbers: Planet Earth
by William Potter
From microscopic minerals to majestic mountains and everything in between, boost your knowledge about our amazing planet with more than 1,000 mind-blowing numbers. Stunning artworks, photographs, and fun graphics immerse you in the wonders of our world. Learn all about rocks, rivers, oceans, plants, forests, and more. Every page is packed with jaw-dropping numerical facts and stats that will have you memorizing them in no time.
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Growing Up in the Shadow of Alcatraz: Childhood on a Prison Island
by Emma Bland Smith
Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay is notorious for its prison, which held some of the world's most dangerous criminals. But it was also home to more than 100 children and their parents who worked at the prison. Engaging narrative, historical photos, primary sources, and more will give readers an inside look at daily life on Alcatraz and the children who called it home.
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How to Explain Coding to a Grown-Up
by Ruth Spiro
In this tongue-and-cheek guide, a kid expert explains to young readers how to teach their grown-ups about the basics of coding, including hardware, software algorithms, and debugging.
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Find Momo Everywhere
by Andrew Knapp
Heartfelt text and lively mixed-media illustrations explore grief and how we can still connect with our loved ones even after they're gone as the author meditates on the life and loss of his beloved dog - and best friend - Momo.
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Climate: Our Changing World
by Andrew Sima
A book for middle readers explores how climate change affects everyone, and how by working together, we can help make the world safer for ourselves and future generations.
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The Story of Science: How Science and Technology Changed the World
by Robert Winston
Delve into the stories of history's most influential scientific experiments, inventions and life-changing discoveries that have impacted our understanding and changed the world. Teach children about the incredible world of science through fascinating facts, innovative inventions, and daring discoveries. Learn how random accidents have led to some of the greatest findings our world has ever seen, and how anybody who dares to dream can be successful.
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The Big Book of Butts
by Eva Manzano
Butts are used for breathing, eating, swimming and even talking and they come in all shapes, sizes and colors (some are even multi-colored!). Learn fun facts about your own bottom and those in the animal kingdom in this hilarious book of butts!
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Where Are the Aliens? The Search for Life Beyond Earth
by Stacy McAnulty
Taking readers on a journey through theories of discovery, from the Big Bang to today's technological advancements, this entertaining, science-based book explores of one of the universe's greatest mysteries - does life exist beyond Earth?
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Ultimate Mammalpedia
by Stephanie Warren Drimmer
An encyclopedia of mammals - including profiles and explanation of what mammals are - for early readers.
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It's So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families
by Robie H. Harris
Updated for a new generation of readers, this classic resource, vetted by experts, provides children with honest answers about reproduction, babies, love, sex and gender with the help of two cartoon characters, Bird and Bee.
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Operation Cupcake: How Simple Machines Work
by Bambi Edlund
Targeting a vanilla cupcake with buttercream frosting for their next treat, clever mice Ginger and Mac use simple machines to get past the big obstacles in their way, in this laugh-out-loud adventure that teaches children about the basic concepts of mechanical physics.
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LEGO Amazing Earth
by Jennifer Swanson
Budding LEGO builders will be inspired to create incredible things as they take a tour of planet Earth, where they will see amazing planets, animals and geological features without leaving home.
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This Book Will Make You an Artist
by Ruth Millington
Jam-packed with imaginative ideas for all kinds of creative crafts... this book will make YOU an artist! Pick up your pencils, collect your collage materials, and take inspiration from 25 of the world's best-known artists in this fact-filled book full of activities. Discover famous masterpieces through the included photographs of real works of art - from ancient cave painting to contemporary performance - and lots more in between!
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Artificers & Alchemy: A Young Adventurer's Guide
by Jim Zub
This enchanting guide to the wondrous creatures found throughout the D&D universe provides easy-to-follow explanations and action-packed illustrations to help aspiring adventurers seek out items and create them in-game as well as how to interact with unusual, magical objects.
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The Life-Changing Magic of Chess: A Beginner's Guide
by Maurice Ashley
After making history as the chess world's first Black Grandmaster, Maurice Ashley went on to become a three-time national championship coach and commentator. Now he's sharing his passion for chess with you.
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The Maps Book
by Joanne Bourne
Packed with astounding maps from ancient times to the present, fascinating facts and amazing historic photographs, this ultimate guide to the full breadth of maps in existence shows kids not only how to read maps and symbols but how to create their own.
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Above the Trenches: A WWI Flying Ace Tale
by Nathan Hale
This edge-of-your-seat page turner recounts the adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, the first American pilots to fight in WWI for the French military, and how they went down in history with other legendary flying aces, like the Red Baron and his Flying Circus.
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A Place Called America: A Story of the Land and People
by Jennifer Thermes
The long view of the land's history from its earliest formation and inhabitants. Meet those indigenous to the shores of the land called Turtle Island and their relatives who contributed to World War II and whose ideas founded the basis of the Constitution. Meet immigrant communities, who came to the land from all around the world - at different times and against all odds. Meet enslaved ancestors who were brought to the land against their will and whose labor and experience changed the story forever. Jennifer Thermes weaves the threads of these communities together using the land itself as a unifying lens. Illustrated with dazzling maps, it is an info-packed read, with sidebars, an author's note, and a timeline supplementing the accessible text. A Place Called America will challenge its readers to think critically about the stories we tend to take for granted about our own history.
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