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Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge: ALA Annual Part 2

June 28, 2017 Alyson Beecher

Yesterday, in my #Road2Reading post, I mentioned that I have been at the ALA Annual conference in Chicago for the past several days. However, I wanted to share some of the titles that I got a glimpse of at ALA. Some I learned about during Publisher Previews and others I saw on display at various booths. Annual is always pretty packed in the exhibit hall and I felt that my photos were not clear enough so I looked for the book covers online.  Additionally, this is not a comprehensive list. There were several booths I never managed to visit.  

Tomorrow, I will have a general ALA Annual post but I will say that I enjoyed going to the ALSC Awards, which include the Robert F. Sibert Award, and hearing the winners' acceptance speeches.  While I was standing in line, waiting for the doors to open, I turned around and looked at the name tag of the man standing behind me. It said Bob Sibert. The son of Robert F. Sibert . Sadly, I was too surprised to say anything, and also, thankful that I didn't blurt out something embarrassing.  

Here are some of the books that I added to my TBR List after :

The World is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid by Jeannette Winter (Beach Lane Books, August 22, 2017)

Full of Fall by April Pulley Sayre (Beach Lane Books, August 29, 2017)

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca; Illustrated by Daniel Rieley (Innovation Press, August 29, 2017)

Dangerous Jane by Suzanne Slade (Peachtree Publishers, September 1, 2017)

The Super Bowl: Chasing Football Immortality by Matt Doeden (Millbrook Press, September 1, 2017)

Older Than Dirt: A Wild but True History of Earth by Don Brown; Illustrated by Michael R. Perfit (HMH Books for Young Readers, September 5, 2017)

The Shape of the World: A Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright by K.L. Going; Illustrated by Lauren Stringer (Beach Lane Books, September 5, 2017)

How to be An Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild by Katherine Roy (Macmillan/David Macaulay Studio, September 19, 2017)

Zoo Scientists to the Rescue by Patricia Newman (Millbrook, October 1, 2017)

Deadliest! 20 Dangerous Animals by Steve Jenkins (HMH Books for Young Readers, October 10, 2017)

Trickiest! 19 Sneaky Animals by Steve Jenkins (HMH Books for Young Readers, October 10, 2017)

Mama Africa!; How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope With Her Song by Kathryn Erskine; Illustrated by Charly Palmer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 10, 2017)

Fallingwater: The Building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Masterpiece by Marc Harshman and Anna Egan Smucker; Illustrated LeUyen Pham (Roaring Brook Press, October 17, 2017) 

Meet Cindy Sherman: Artist, Photographer, Chameleon by Sandra Jordan; Illustrated by Jan Greenberg (Roaring Brook Press, October 17, 2017)

A Boy, a Mouse, and a Spider by Barbara Herkert; Illustrated by Lauren Castillo (Henry Holt & Co., October 24, 2017)

The Elephant Whisperer: My Life With the Herd in the African Wild by Lawerence Anthony and Graham Spence; adapted by Thea Feldman (Henry Holt & Co., October 24, 2017)

Silent Days, Silent Dreams by Allen Say (Arthur A. Levine Books, October 31, 2017)

Who Am I? An Animal Guessing Game by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page (HMH Books for Young Readers, November 14, 2017)

And coming in 2018....

Brave Jane Austen: Reader, Writer, Author, Rebel by Lisa Pliscou; Illustrated by Jen Corace (Henry Holt & Co., January 30, 2018)

It looks like the second half of 2017 has some fabulous titles to pick up and read.

(Note: Updated on 6/29/17 - with corrected information about Bob Sibert.)

Artwork by Sarah S Brannen ©2017

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