Share a Story 2010 Day 3: Just the Facts : The Nonfiction Book Hook

Kids love nonfiction books. 

That's a fact!

Sorry, I couldn't resist. Before you decide nonfiction = boring, you might want to take a stroll around the village today. Nonfiction - particularly nonfiction picture books - may be the perfect lure for reluctant readers.

At the Reading Zone, today's host Sara Mulhern has two posts. In addition to introducing Day 3 of Share a Story, she has a great piece about pairing nonfiction with fiction in the classroom, complete with reviews of a few science/nature books for use in middle school, she links you to great ideas by other nonfiction lovers.

• Anastasia Suen talks about sharing nonfiction with new readers at 5 Great Books;
• Dawn Little, who is talking about Real World Reading with Preschoolers ... at the Literacy Toolbox;
• Monica Edinger is offering information about educating alice;
• Jessica talks about Hooking Reluctant Middle Grade Readers (You Choose and Wicked History Series) at 26 Letters;
• Melissa is talking about finding books with childhood memories a little later in life with After Little House, what? at Kidlit History;
• Natasha Maw is talking about nonfiction for early readers and their parents at Maw Books blog;
• Amy Mascott is talking about Everyday Nonfiction Newspaper Reading at Teach Mama; and
• Imagination Soup asks Are You a Fiction or a Nonfiction Reader?
• Callista says Let's Discuss Nonfiction at the SMS Book Review blog.

As has been our practice, we will update the direct links to the individual posts as they go live. You can also follow the discussions on Twitter. We're using the #SAS2010 hashtag.