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Meet the Publisher: Cheriton Children’s Books

Lerner Publisher Services brings you our next publishing partner in our Meet the Publisher blog series: Cheriton Children’s Books. Cheriton, based in the UK, creates high-quality, engaging nonfiction series for middle and upper grade readers. Read on to learn more!Read more

5 Kinds of Nonfiction – Evaluate Your Collection

Assess Your Collection with the 5 Kinds of Nonfiction Since so many of you take time over the summer to evaluate and update your collections to make sure they will best serve your students, we wanted to remind you of the 5 Kinds of Nonfiction classification system, created by author Melissa Stewart. The 5 Kinds […]Read more

Browseable Nonfiction Hotlist

Browseable nonfiction contains eye-catching design, lavish illustrations or photographs, and straightforward text. The books can be read from cover to cover for readers who want to know absolutely everything, but other readers have the freedom to focus on the content that really interests them. Read on for our best-selling browseable nonfiction titles!Read more

Animals Eat What?: Disgusting Meals in Bite-Size Pieces (Browseable Nonfiction)

By Andrea Nelson, Associate Managing Editor of Partnered and Packaged Product This spring, Lerner Publications launched the browseable nonfiction series Animals Eat What? This series takes a look at the nasty and unusual elements of animal diets, and fits into the browseable category of Melissa Stewart’s Five Kinds of Nonfiction. Read on to learn more […]Read more

5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Nonfiction Writers Dig Deep

A guest post by Melissa Stewart Many teachers and students seem to think that writing nonfiction requires nothing more than doing some research and cobbling together a bunch of facts, but nothing could be further from the truth. To dispel this alarming myth, fifty of today’s most celebrated authors for children have come together to […]Read more

Rethinking Your Book Collection: A Q&A with Melissa Stewart

Last week, Melissa Stewart hosted an absolutely awesome webinar with SLJ – Rethinking Your Book Collection. If you missed it, you can watch it on demand through the end of the year. The presentation and discussion were so great that we couldn’t get to all the questions, so Melissa graciously answered them for our blog.Read more

Introducing: 5 Kinds of Nonfiction with Melissa Stewart!

A guest post by Melissa Stewart Back in 2017, I proposed a five-category system for classifying children’s nonfiction on my blog, and the response was incredible. Teachers loved it. So did librarians and children’s book authors and editors. People praised the clarity it brought to the range of children’s nonfiction available today.Read more

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