Non-fiction Easy Readers

escritora · Nov 24, 2012

Anyone have suggestions on a historical figure or person who would make for a great easy reader? Someone who hasn't been written about much?

My list is short

Maria Tallchief - First native American prima ballerina
Joseph Acaba - First Puerto Rican in space

MsJudy · Nov 24, 2012

Paleontologists. Boys that age are so into dinosaurs, I bet a book about whoever discovered the first TRex fossil or that sort of thing would do well.

escritora · Nov 24, 2012

MsJudy said:
Paleontologists. Boys that age are so into dinosaurs, I bet a book about whoever discovered the first TRex fossil or that sort of thing would do well.

Wow. What a great suggestion. I'm excited about conducting the research!

DavidBrett · Nov 25, 2012

What about famous children in history? Tutankhamen, Sadako (thousand paper cranes), Mozart/Beethoven (can't remember which wrote their first famous piece at 3/4), those Princes in the Tower of London...

Okay, so my history is a tad rusty. But you get the idea; maybe the rule 'children like to read about people their own ages' applies to non-fiction, too...?

escritora · Nov 25, 2012

That's a good point, David. I'll research kids who did extraordinary things.

(Just looked up the Princes story. Oh, my. How sad and tragic.)

Non-fiction Easy Readers

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Alas, poor Yorick, he fed me 'nanas

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