Q and A: Favorite Non-Fiction {Episode 51}

The sisters are chatting non-fiction today! From their favorite go-to authors to the books that have stood the test of time in their homes, they are coming to you with tons of recommendations.

Listen in as Cait + Kara chat biographies to encyclopedias, and how to find non-fiction books your kids will adore.

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Links from the episode

• 50 States by Gabrielle Balkan
• Animal Encyclopedia (National Geographic)
• An Unsolved Mystery from History (series)
• Arnosky, Jim
• Audible <—- GO HERE TO GET A **FREE** AUDIOBOOK
• Children’s Atlas (DK)
• DK Encyclopedias
• D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
• D’Aulaires Book of Norse Myths
• Floca, Brian
• Fritz, Jean
• Gibbons, Gail
• Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh
• Golden Field Guides
• Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
• Guinness Book of World Records
• Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition (audio)
• Holling, Holling C.
• Horrible Books (series)
• Jennings, Ken (junior guides)
• Macaulay, David
• Magic Treehouse series (nonfiction companion books)
• Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska 
• Mistakes that Work by Charlotte Foltz Jones
• Murderous Maths
• Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales
• My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall
• National Geographic non-fiction books
• Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt
• Ordinary People Change the World (series) by Brad Meltzer
• Ripley’s Believe it or Not
• Smithsonian non-fiction books
• Some Writer by Melissa Sweet
• Step Into Reading (series)
• Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different
• The Girl Who Thought in Pictures
• Usborne Encyclopedia
• Welcome to the Museum (series)
• Wicked Bugs
• Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers
• You Choose Interactive History Adventure (series)
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be (series)

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