Melissa Stewart
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Melissa’s Alphabetical Booklist

5 Kinds of Nonfiction

5 Kinds of Non­fic­tion? Enrich­ing Read­ing and Writ­ing Instruc­tion with Chil­dren’s Books

Air is Everywhere

Alli­ga­tor or Crocodile

Amaz­ing Eyes Up Close

Amphib­ians

Ani­mal Grossapedia

Ani­mals All Around

Ante­lope

Ants

Atoms

Baboons

Beneath the Sun

Beneath the Sun

Bird-acious: Yuck! Owl Puke with Bones In It!

Birds

Blasts of Gas: The Secrets of Breath­ing, Burp­ing, and Pass­ing Gas

Blue Ani­mals

But­ter­flies

But­ter­fly or Moth? How Do You Know?

Can an Aard­vark Bark?

Cater­pil­lar to Butterfly

Cell Biol­o­gy

Cells to Systems

Clas­si­fi­ca­tion of Life

Claws & Jaws: A Book about T. rex and Veloci­rap­tor!

Creepy Crawly Jokes about Spiders and Bugs

Creepy, Crawly Jokes about Spi­ders and Oth­er Bugs

Crys­tals

Dad­dy Lon­glegs Isn’t a Spider

Dead­liest Ani­mals!

Dead­ly Predators

Dino-mite Jokes about Pre­his­toric Life

Dinosaurs

Do Peo­ple Real­ly Have Tiny Insects Liv­ing in Their Eye­lash­es? and Oth­er Ques­tions about the Micro­scop­ic World

Dol­phins

Down to Earth

Droughts

Droughts

Earth­quakes and Vol­ca­noes FYI

Ele­phants

Ener­gy in Motion

Extreme Coral Reef!

Extreme Nature!

Extreme Rocks & Min­er­als!

Eye See You: A Poster Book

Eyes Have It: The Secrets of Eyes and Seeing

Fan­tas­tic Feet Up Close

Feathers Not Just for Flying

Feath­ers: Not Just for Flying

Fish­es

Fos­sils

Fos­sils

Four­teen Mon­keys: A Rain For­est Rhyme

Frog or Toad? How Do You Know?

Fun with the Sun

Germ Wars! The Secrets of Pro­tect­ing Your Body

Get a Grip! A Book about How Your Hand Real­ly Works

Giraffe Graphs

Give Me a Hand: The Secrets of Hands, Feet, Arms, and Legs

Green Ani­mals

Here We Grow: The Secrets of Hair and Nails

Hip­popota­mus­es

How Animals Breathe

How Ani­mals Breathe

How Do Bats Fly in the Dark?

How Do Bees Make Hon­ey?

How Do Birds Fly?

How Do Chameleons Change Col­or?

How Do Fish Breathe Under­wa­ter?

How Do Plants Grow?

How Do Spi­ders Make Webs?

How Does a Bone Become a Fos­sil?

How Does a Cater­pil­lar Become a But­ter­fly?

How Does a Seed Sprout? and Oth­er Ques­tions about Plants

How Does the Ear Hear? And Oth­er Ques­tions about the Five Senses

How Does Sand Become Glass?

How is My Brain Like a Super­com­put­er? And Oth­er Ques­tions about the Body

Hur­ri­cane Watch

Ick! Delightfully Disgusting Animal Dinners, Dwellings, and Defenses

Ick! Delight­ful­ly Dis­gust­ing Ani­mal Din­ners, Dwellings, and Defenses

Igneous Rocks

Incred­i­ble Ears Up Close

Insect or Spi­der? How Do You Know?

Insects

Inside Earth­quakes

Inside Light­ning

Inside Vol­ca­noes

Is the Bermu­da Tri­an­gle Real­ly a Dan­ger­ous Place: and Oth­er Ques­tions about the Ocean

It’s Spit-acu­lar! The Secrets of Saliva

Life In a Lake

Life in a Wetland

Life Without Light

Life With­out Light

Mag­gots Grubs & More: The Secret Lives of Young Insects

Mam­mals

Meet the Beetles

Meet the Mini-Mam­mals: A Night at the Nat­ur­al His­to­ry Museum

Mega-Preda­tors of the Past

Meta­mor­phic Rocks

Mete­ors

Min­er­als

Motion

Moun­tains of Jokes about Rocks, Min­er­als, and Soil

Mov­ing and Groov­ing: The Secrets of Mus­cles and Bones

My Bug Book

My But­ter­fly Book

New World Monkeys

Nifty Noses Up Close

No Monkeys No Chocolate

No Mon­keys, No Chocolate

Non­fic­tion Writ­ers Dig Deep

Now Hear This! The Secrets of Ears and Hearing

Orange Ani­mals

Out of this World Jokes about the Solar System

Parade of Plants

Per­fect Pairs: Using Fic­tion & Non­fic­tion Pic­ture Books to Teach Life Sci­ence 3–5

Per­fect Pairs: Using Fic­tion & Non­fic­tion Pic­ture Books to Teach Life Sci­ence K‑2

Pinoc­chio Rex and Oth­er Tyrannosaurs

Pipsqueaks, Slowpokes, and Stinkers

Pip­squeaks, Slow­pokes, and Stinkers: Cel­e­brat­ing Ani­mal Underdogs

Place for Bats

Place for Birds

Place for Butterflies

Place for Fish

Place for Frogs

Place for Turtles

Plants

Preda­tor Face-Off

Pro­duc­ers

Pump It Up! The Secrets of the Heart and Blood

Pur­ple Animals

Rab­bits

Rachel Carson

Rachel Car­son

Rain­bow of Animals

Red Ani­mals

Rep­tiles

Rhi­noc­er­os­es

Robot­ic Scorpion

Robots

Sala­man­der or Lizard? How Do You Know?

Sci­ence in Ancient India

Seals, Seal Lions, and Walruses

Seashells: More than a Home

Sed­i­men­ta­ry Rocks

A Seed is the Start

Seed is the Start

Shape Search

Shark or Dol­phin? How Do You Know?

Shock­ing­ly Sil­ly Jokes about Elec­tric­i­ty and Magnetism

Shore­birds

Skin You’re In: The Secrets of Skin

Sloths

Small Birds

Snakes

Snakes

Soil

Sum­mer­time Sleep­ers: Ani­mals That Estivate

Swans

Tal­ent­ed Tails Up Close

Ter­rif­ic Tongues Up Close

Thank You, Moon: Cel­e­brat­ing Nature’s Nightlight

Tim Bern­ers Lee

Titan­ic

Tree Hole Homes

Tree Hole Homes

Treat­ing Earth­’s Trou­ble Spots

Under the Snow

Up Your Nose! The Secrets of Schnozzes and Snouts

Uranus

Use Your Senses

Wacky Weath­er and Sil­ly Sea­son Jokes

Water

Whale Fall: Explor­ing an Ocean-Floor Ecosystem

What’s the Weath­er?

When Rain Falls

When Rain Falls

Why Are Ani­mals Blue?

Why Are Ani­mals Green?

Why Are Ani­mals Orange?

Why Are Ani­mals Pur­ple?

Why Are Ani­mals Red?

Why Are Ani­mals Yel­low?

Why Do the Sea­sons Change?

Why Do We See Rain­bows?

Why Does the Moon Change Shape?

Why Did T. rex Have Short Arms? and Other Questions about Dinosaurs

Why Did T. rex Have Short Arms?

Will It Float or Sink?

Wolver­ines

Won­ders of Water

World’s Fastest Animals

Yel­low Animals

You’ve Got Nerve! The Secrets of the Brain and Nerve

Zebras

Zoom in on Bees

Zoom in on Butterflies

Zoom in on Dragonflies

Zoom in on Fireflies

Zoom in on Grasshoppers

Zoom in on Ladybugs

5 Kinds of Nonfiction
Beneath the Sun
Creepy Crawly Jokes about Spiders and Bugs
Droughts
Feathers Not Just for Flying
How Animals Breathe
Ick! Delightfully Disgusting Animal Dinners, Dwellings, and Defenses
Life Without Light
No Monkeys No Chocolate
Pipsqueaks, Slowpokes, and Stinkers
A Place for Butterflies
Rachel Carson
A Seed is the Start
Snakes
Tree Hole Homes
When Rain Falls
Why Did T. rex Have Short Arms? and Other Questions about Dinosaurs