As one of the ways to celebrate National Non Fiction Day and provide resources for all those who enjoy non fiction, or want to get into it I have been working on a booklist of all the best best non fic books around at the moment. Although the list is not exhaistive (there is so much great stuff out there!) I hope that it gives a good flavour of what great stuff there is available.
It was a great joy to put the list together and basically spend a load of time reading books, which you certainly can’t complain about! Some publishers are notorious for creating visually stunning books, for instance Templar books are always wonderful to look at and give information in such a creative way they immediately draw you in. The best example of this has to be their ‘How the World Works’ book which I haven’t stopped raving about since I first saw it.
Other publishers as well though create just as amazing books, Scholastic and all their Horribles (and Murderous Maths, Kjartan Poskitt is the king of funny non-fic), but also smaller non fic publishers such as Quercus have books on their lists that are great too. ‘Who am I’ is an excellent book for young people interested in finding out about their family trees.
The leaflet is below but you can also get hard copies by visiting our website www.fcbg.org and requesting some. I hope it is a good resource hghlighting some wonderful books.
The Book Guy 