Outstanding Nonfiction Choices for 1996

Elaine Aoki; Julie Jensen; Richard M. Kerper; Ruth Nathan; Karen Patricia Smith; Myra Zarnowski

doi:10.58680/la19973252

ISSN: 0360-9170
E-ISSN: 1943-2402

Outstanding Nonfiction Choices for 1996
Author(s): Elaine Aoki, Julie Jensen, Richard M. Kerper, Ruth Nathan, Karen Patricia Smith and Myra Zarnowski
Source: Language Arts, Volume 74, Issue 7, Nov 1997, p. 557 - 564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/la19973252
- Published online: 01 Nov 1997

Abstract

Presents substantial annotations of outstanding nonfiction books for children published in 1996, including the 1997 Orbis Pictus Award winner and three 1997 Orbis Pictus Honor books. Presents annotations of 14 other outstanding nonfiction titles, grouped in the following categories: understanding the natural world; looking critically at history; biography; and cultures and artifacts.

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