Great Non-Fiction Picture Books

Great Non-Fiction Picture Books

August 18th at 2PM ET
Virtual

Beautiful Books Sure to Inspire!

Join us online to check out these brilliant titles! 

Tune in for:

  • Brown Girls Do Ballet: Celebrating Diverse Girls Taking Center Stage by TaKIYAH WALLACE-McMILLIAN. This empowering book is full of gorgeous photographs of young BIPOC ballerinas of all levels! With poetic text inspired by the dancer's graceful poses and powerful leaps, young dancers will be encouraged to take center stage.

  • Volcanoes by NELL CROSS BECKERMAN. Go on an adventure through the radioactive wonders that are volcanoes! 

  • Can You Hear the Plants Speak? by NICHOLAS HUMMINGBIRD & JULIA WASSON. What do we learn from plants when we listen to them speaking? We can learn a lot from our plant relatives when we listen to what they have to teach us!

  • Almost Underwear: How a Piece of Cloth Traveled From Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars by JONATHAN ROTH. In 1903, the Wright Brothers bought a bolt of fabric that was most commonly used to make underwear, and instead used it to build the first ever plane! Years later, a piece of this same fabric traveled to the moon and then to mars, and this is its incredible story!

Sunday, August 18th at 2PM ET via Crowdcast!



















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