Pairing Picture Book Fiction and Nonfiction (MS/HS too)
A huge thank you to everyone who responded and shared their lists!
I was looking for picture book pairs of fiction with nonfiction. There are also fiction/nonfiction chapter books for all levels in this list.
*Fiction and Nonfiction Pairs*
*My original list:*
George and Martha by James Marshall with Hippos by
5 Little Penguins Slipping on the Ice by Steve Metzger with Penguins by Claire Robinson
Elmer by David McKee with Elephants by Claire Robinson
Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin with Nic Bishop Spiders by Nic Bishop
Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin with Wonderful Worms by Linda Glaser
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? by Jane Yolen with Dinosaurs by Gail Gibbons
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon with Bats by Gail Gibbons
Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman with Police Officers on the Go by Alyse Sweeney
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keat with Snowy Weather Days by Katie Marsico
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback with Recycle That! by Fay
Robinson
Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold with A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman by David A. Adler
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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordecai Gerstein with New York
City by David F. Marx
*Responses:
Sasquatch by Roland Smith with In Search of Sasquatch or Tales of the Cryptids
http://steely.nku.edu/lrc/lrc_materials_lists/bookpairs.php
http://geolibrarian.blogspot.com/search/label/Mix%20N%27%20Match%20Monday
Little Lost Bat by Sandra Markle to the Gail Gibbons selection.
I'm sure there are lots of pairs, but Scholastic has an online 'pairs'
product. You might be able to get a trial for this and see what it's like,
plus while you have the trial, write down the pairs that they use!
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/bookflixfreetrial/programoverview.htm
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/fiction-non-fiction-book-pairs-classroom-library
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson262/camp.pdf
press.umich.edu/pdf/0472089552-ch14.pdf
*http://melissa-stewart.com/pdf/PerfectPairs.pdf *
http://pairedtext.wikispaces.com/Non+Fiction
www.wvpt4learning.org/lessons/pdf_svtc08/*fiction*.pdf<http://www.wvpt4learning.org/lessons/pdf_svtc08/fiction.pdf>
http://www.realclassroomideas.com/65.html
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*Pumpkin* Jack by Will Hubbell and T*he Pumpkin Boo*k by Gail Gibbons (you can do this on so many of Gail's books and with the very easy Non-fiction books by Gail Saunders-Smith. For example, *
Up, up, up its Apple Picking* *time by Jody Shapiro with *Apple trees*, *From blossom to fruit*, *Picking* *
apples*, and *Eating Apples* by Gail Saunders-Smith.
I also love to add a video to the mix: Pumpkin Circle; a story of the garden
directed by George Levenson
Go onto the Pebble Go web site and
Show the kids bees and lady bugs to go with the apple books.
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What a fabulous list! Last week we read Llama, Llama, Red Pajamas and used the encyclopedia to find out information about the animal.
The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert
Wouldn't both of these be non-fiction? The Man Who Walked Between the
Towers by Mordecai Gerstein with New York City by David F. Marx; how about
the Gerstein book with Mirette on the high wire / Emily Arnold McCully?
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A seasonal pairing: Pumpkin Jack by Author: Hubbell, Will with Pumpkin
circle: the story of a garden by George Levenson
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Non-Fiction and Fiction Books on the Same Subject Prepared by Jeri Cohen,
February 2007
*Salem Witch Trials*
Fact: Witch Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials by Marc Aronson
Fiction: Witch Child by Celia Rees
The Minister’s Daughter by Julie Hearn [YA COLL FIC HEARN]
*The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793*
Fact: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow
Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
Fiction: Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Lewis & Clark Expedition
Fact: York’s Adventures with Lewis and Clark: An African-American’s
Part in the Great Expedition by Rhoda Blumberg
Fiction: New Found Land by Allan Wolf
*North and South: Pre Civil War*
Fact: Growing Up in Slavery: Stories of Young Slaves as Told by
Themselves by Yuval Taylor
Fiction: 47 by Walter Mosley
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson
Fact: Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America by Deborah
Hopkinson
Fiction: Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
Fact: The Forbidden Schoolhouse: the True and Dramatic Story of
Prudence Crandall and her Students by Suzanne Jurmain
Fiction: The Education of Mary, a Little Miss of Color, 1832 by Ann Rinaldi
*President Lincoln’s Assassination*
Fact: Good Brother, Bad Brother: the Story of Edwin Booth and John
Wilkes Booth by James Giblin
Fiction: Assassin by Anna Myers
*The Great Depression*
Fact: Children of the Great Depression by Russell Freedman
Fiction: A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
*Antarctic Exploration*
Fact: Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True
Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong
Fiction: Shackleton’s Stowaway by Victoria McKernan
*World War II and the Holocaust*
Fact: Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell
Bartoletti
Fiction: Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz [YA COLL
FIC CHOTJEWITZ]
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Fact: Unsung Heroes of World War II: The Story of the Navajo Code
Talkers by Deanne Durrett
Fiction: Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War II by
Joseph Bruchac
Fact: Unexplained Mysteries of World War II by Robert Jackson
Fiction: B for Buster by Iain Lawrence
Fact: Dear Miss Breed by Joanne Oppenheim
Fiction: Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
Fact: Born Free and Equal by Ansel Adams
Fiction: Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury
*The Civil Rights Movement*
Fact: Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
by Chris Crowe
Fiction: Mississippi Trial 1955 by Chris Crowe
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson (POETRY)
The Vietnam War
Fact: 10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War by Philip
Caputo
Fiction: Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
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*Al Capone Does My Shirts* by Gennifer Choldenko
*Children of Alcatraz: Growing Up on the Rock* by Claire Rudolf Murphy
*Burger Wuss *by Matthew T. Anderson
*Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food *by Eric
Schlosser and Charles Wilson
*Chicks with Sticks: It's a Purl Thing *by Elizabeth Lenhard
*Teen Knitting Club: Chill Out and Knit *by Jennifer Wenger, Carol Abrams,
and Maureen Lasher
*Cryptid Hunters *by Roland Smith
*Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures That May or May Not Exist *by
Kelly Milner Halls, Rick Spears, and Roxyanne Young
*Fever 1793* by Laurie Halse Anderson
*An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever
Epidemic of 1793 *by Jim Murphy
*Girls' Dinner Club *by Jessie Elliot
*Teens Cook: How to Make What You Want to Eat *by Megan Carle
*Hard Love *by Ellen Wittlinger
*Whatcha mean, What's a Zine? : The Art of Making Zines and Mini Comics *by
Mark Todd
* The House of the Scorpion* by Nancy Farmer
*A Clone of Your Own?: The Science and Ethics of Cloning*
by Arlene Judith Klotzko
*Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist *by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
*Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time *by Rob Sheffield
*The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney *by Suzanne Harper
*Lily Dale*: *The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead* by
Christine Wicker
*Shackleton's Stowaway *by Victoria McKernan
*Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of
Shackelton and the Endurance *by Jennifer Armstrong
*So Yesterday* by Scott Westerfeld
*The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference* by Malcolm
Gladwell
*Tell It to Naomi *by Daniel Ehrenhaft
*-- Any Advice? *by Tucker Shaw and Fiona Gibb
*Ties That Bind, Ties That Break *by Lensey Namioka
*Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter *by Adeline Yen
Mah
*Witch Child *by Celia Rees
*Witch Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials *by Marc Aronson
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Author Title
Allen Johnny Reb
Herbert The Civil War for kids
Anderson 1787
Hil We the people
Blos Brothers of the heart
Clapp Constance
Bradford Homes in the wilderness
Clapp Witches’ children
Sta The visionary girls
Collier The bloody country
Brenner If you were there in 1776
Collier War comes to Willy Freeman
Clarke The American Revolution, 1775 - 1783
Crist-Evans Moon over Tennessee
Baker Strike the tent
DeAngeli The door in the wall
Gray Plague and fire
Finlayson Redcoat in Boston
Smith The infamous Boston massacre
Fox The slave dancer
Jurmain Freedom’s sons
Fritz Homesick, my own story
Fritz China’s long march
Hicyilmaz Smiling for strangers
Yancy Life in war torn Bosnia
Hesse Out of the dust
Hiebert The stock market crash
Unstead The thirties
Hobbs Jason’s gold
Cooper Klondike fever: the famous gold rush of
Hunt Across five Aprils
Dolan The American Civil War, a house divided
Isaacs Torn thread
King-Smith Spider Sparrow
Kronenwetter Cities at war/London
Lester? Pharaoh’s daughter
Bendick Egyption tombs
McGraw The golden goblet
Perl Mummies, tombs and treasure
McGraw Mara, daughter of the Nile
David Ancient Egypt
O’Dell The King’s fifth
Explorers and settlers
Patersen Park’s quest
Wright War in Vietnam
Paulsen Tucket’s gold
Nat Trails west
Peyton The edge of the cloud
Taylor The first human-powered flight
Peyton Thunder in the sky
Hoobler An album of World War I
Robinet Walking to the bus rider blues
King Oh, freedom!
Ruby Steal away home
Nadene Why fight?
Speare Calico captive
Battles in a new land
Sto Tall sails to Jamestown
Ame Jamestown: first English colony
Swanson The Star-Spangled Banner
Carter The War of 1812
Taylor The Children’s war
Dup Asiatic land battles
Tunnell Brothers in valor
Seth The Nobel saboteurs
Wei The star and the flame
Ole The black plague
Werstein Jack Wade, Fighter for liberty
Evans The American war of independence
Willard, Barbara The lark and the laurel
Henry Turner Henry VIII
Wis This new land
Sla Life among the Puritans
Wye Once, on this river
Lester To be a slave
Yep Dragonwings
Sung An album of Chinese Americans
Yolen The devil’s arithmetic
Leapman Witnesses to war
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The Tale of Tricky Fox by Jim Aylesworth with a nonfiction foxes book
Seven Blind Mice by Young with What's It Like to Be a Baby Elephant by Honor
Head
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I've listed the fiction first. Nonfiction author Melissa Stewart
also has a terrific article on her website, "Perfect Pairings: Teaching
Science Through Literature," with loads of suggestions. You can find it at:
http://www.melissa-stewart.com/pdf/PerfectPairs.pdf#zoom=100
Here's the list so far:
ARTHUR'S BIRTHDAY by Marc Brown-Fiction and HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THE STORY OF THE
WORLD'S MOST POPULAR SONG by Nancy Kelly Allen
DIARY OF A WORM by Doreen Cronin and HOW SOIL IS MADE by Heather L. Montgomery
THE LOST-AND-FOUND TOOTH by Louise Borden and WHY DO MY TEETH FALL OUT?: AND
OTHER QUESTIONS KID HAVE ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY by Heather L. Montgomery
MAGIC TREE HOUSE: MUMMIES IN THE MORNING by Mary Pope Osborne and MUMMIES:TRUTHS AND RUMORS by Heather L. Montgomery
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE series and PRAIRIE STORMS by Darcy Pattison
SASQUATCH by Roland Smith and IN SEARCH OF SASQUATCH or TALES OF THE CRYPTIDS by Kelly Milner Halls
THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak and HITLER YOURTH: GROWING UP IN HITLER'S SHADOW by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. Can also be paired with Bartoletti's own novel THE BOY WHO DARED
ANT AND GRASSHOPPER (retelling of Aesop's fable) by Luli Gray author and
Giuliano Ferri illustrator, and BUGS AND BUGSIICLES by Amy Hansen and Bob Cray Illustrator.
REMEMBERING GREEN by Lesley Beake and THE CARBON DIARIES by Saci Lloyd or KEEPING OUR EARTH GREEN by Nancy Castaldo
NORY RYAN'S SONG by Patricia Reilly Giff and BLACK POTAOES; THE GREAT IRISH POTATO FAMINE by Susan Cambell Bartoletti
THE EVOLUTION OF CALPURNIA TATE by Jacqueline Kelly and GIRLS WHO LOOKED UNDER ROCKS by Jeannine Atkins
THE TRUE STORY OF THE 3 LITTLE PIGS by Jon Scieszka or THE TRUE STORY OF LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD by Agnese Baruzzi and Sandro Natalini and ONE WOLFHOWLS by Scotti Cohn
THE TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA by Judith Kerr or THE HAPPY LION ROARS by Louise Fatio and Roger Duvoisin and BIG CAT LITTLE KITTY by Scotti Cohn
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*Memoirs of a Goldfish* with *Taking Care of your Goldfish*.
Michelle Levy
School Library Media Specialist
Eton Academy <http://www.etonacademy.org/%20> (1st-12th grades)
1755 Melton
Birmingham, MI 48009
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mlevy@etonacademy.org (work)
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