Nonfiction Picture Book Releases - August 2012

The Nonfiction Detectives and I are hosting a Non-Fiction Picture Book Challenge.  My goal has been to kick off the month with the new nonfiction picture book release titles.  Here are the August titles that I have found so far, but I know there are more.  Please share with me titles that you have found.

August 7, 2012

Lives of the Athletes: Thrills, Spills (and What Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull; Illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt

Awesome Autumn by Bruce Goldstone

August 29, 2012

A Rock is Lively by Dianna Hutts; Illustrated by Sylvia Long

August 30, 2012

Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books by Susan L. Roth; Illustrated by Karen Leggett Abouraya

The links for the above books will take you directly to the IndieBound.org book page for purchasing information, unless otherwise noted.  Please note, I do not make anything off these links or profit in anyway from posting the links.   I know that I am still searching for August releases and will likely do an update in September. If you know of a book that should be included in this list, please include the title and author in the comments section and I will update the list. 

Feel free to link your nonfiction picture book reviews to the Mr. Linky below.  

Nonfiction Picture Book Releases - April 2012

The Nonfiction Detectives and I are hosting a Non-Fiction Picture Book Challenge.  At the beginning of each month, my goal is to post all of the new non-fiction picture books being released over the next 30 days.

April 1, 2012
*Titantic: Voices From the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson

Invitation to Ballet by Carolyn Vaughan, Ilustrated by Rachel Isadora

April 3, 2012
Brothers at Bat: The True Story of An Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team by Audrey Vernick, Illustrated by Steven Salerno

The Beetle Book by Steven Jenkins

The links for the above books will take you directly to the IndieBound.org book page for purchasing information, unless otherwise noted.  Please note, I do not make anything off these links or profit in anyway from posting the links.   I know that I am still searching for April releases and will likely do a Part II update. If you know of a book that should be included in this list, please include the title and author in the comments section and I will update the list. 

* Indicates Non-fiction children's books that are not specifically picture books.

Feel free to link your nonfiction picture book reviews to the Mr. Linky below. 

Nonfiction Picture Book Releases - March 2012

The Nonfiction Detectives and I are hosting a Non-Fiction Picture Book Challenge.  At the beginning of each month, my goal is to post all of the new non-fiction picture books being released over the next 30 days.

Here are a few books that have already been released in January and February that I just discovered:

*His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg by Louise W. Borden (January 2012)

Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World by Laurie Lawlor; Illustrated by Laura Beingessner (February 2012)

How Many Jelly Beans by Andrea Menotti; Illustrated by Yancey Labat (February 2012)

*We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson (February 2012)

And now for the March titles -

March 1, 2012
*The Louisiana Purchase by Peter Benoit

Seeing Symmetry by Loreen Leedy

March 13, 2012
Bird Talk: What Birds are Saying and Why by Lita Judge

Life in the Ocean by Claire A. Nivola

National Geographic Kids Ultimate U.S. Road Trip Atlas: Maps, Games, Activities and More For Hours of Backseat Fun  by Crispin Boyer

Mrs. Harkness and the Panda by Melissa Sweet 

March 27, 2012
Just Ducks! by Claire A. Nivola; Illustrated by Salvatore Rubbino

The links for the above books will take you directly to the IndieBound.org book page for purchasing information, unless otherwise noted.  Please note, I do not make anything off these links or profit in anyway from posting the links.   If you know of a book that should be included in this list, please include the title and author in the comments section and I will update the list. 

* Indicates Non-fiction children's books that are not specifically picture books.

Feel free to link any of your nonfiction picture book reviews in the Mr. Linky below... 

Nonfiction Picture Book Releases February 2012

The Nonfiction Detectives and I are hosting a Non-Fiction Picture Book Challenge.  At the beginning of each month, my goal is to post all of the new non-fiction picture books being released over the next 30 days. 

February 1, 2012

*A Blackhole is Not a Hole by Carolyn Cinami Decristofano, Michael Carroll

A Leaf Can Be by Laura Purdie Salas, Illustrated by Violeta Dabija

Snowmobile: Bombardier's Dream Machine by Jules Older

February 8, 2012

The President's Stuck in the Bathtub: Poems About the Presidents by Susan Katz, Illustrated by Robert Neubecker

February 14, 2012

Citizen Scientist by Loree Griffin Burns, Ellen Harasimowicz

*The Impossible Rescue by Martin W. Sandler

There Goes Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Whoever Lived by Matt Taveres

Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies, Illustrated by Mark Heard

February 15, 2012

I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery by Cynthia Grady, Illustrated by Michelle Wood

February 16, 2012

Women Explorers by Julia Cummins, Illustrated by Cheryl Harness

February 28, 2012

*Boston's Great Molasses Flood by Deborah Kops

Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O'Keeffe Painted What She Pleased by Amy Novesky, Illustrated by Yuyi Morales

The links for the above books will take you directly to the IndieBound.org book page for purchasing information, unless otherwise noted.  Please note, I do not make anything off these links or profit in anyway from posting the links.   If you know of a book that should be included in this list, please include the title and author in the comments section and I will update the list. 

* Indicates Non-fiction children's books that are not specifically picture books.

Non-Fiction Picture Book Releases January 2012

The Nonfiction Detectives and I are hosting a Non-Fiction Picture Book Challenge.  At the beginning of each month, my goal is to post all of the new non-fiction picture books being released over the next 30 days.


January 1, 2012
Here Comes the Girl Scouts! by Shana Corey, Illustrated by Hadley Hooper

*Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years by Linda Barrett Osborne

Those Rebels, John and Tom by Barbara Kerley, Illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham

January 3, 2012
Jazz Age Josephine by Jonah Winter, Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman

Stars in the Shadows: The Negro League All-Star Game of 1934 by Charles R. Smith, Illustrated by Frank Morrison

We March by Shane W. Evans

Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass by Lesa Cline-Ransome,  Illustrated by James E. Ransome

January 10, 2012
A Boy Called Dickens by Deborah Hopkinson, Illustrated by John Hendrix

January 19, 2012
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Readers Edition) by William Kamkwamba, Illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon (This title is not yet listed on IndieBound.  Link is to GoodReads page.)

The Camping Trip that Changed America by Barbara Rosenstock, Illustrated by Mordecai Gerstein

January 24, 2012
Just as Good: How Larry Doby Changed America's Game by Chris Crowe, Illustrated by Mike Benny

What Color is My World? The Lost History of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld, Illustrated by Ben Boos, A.G. Ford

January 28, 2012
Spotty, Stripy, Swirly: What are Patterns? by Jane Brocket (This title is not yet listed on IndieBound.  Link is to GoodReads page.)

The links for the above books will take you directly to the IndieBound.org book page for purchasing information, unless otherwise noted.  Please note, I do not make anything off these links or profit in anyway from posting the links.   If you know of a book that should be included in this list, please include the title and author in the comments section and I will update the list. 

* Indicates Non-fiction children's books that are not specifically picture books.