AdLit
Ad lit.org: Use Easy Nonfiction to Build Background Knowledge
A Texas librarian shares his strategy of using nonfiction picture books to introduce new concepts to struggling adolescent readers and to build their background knowledge. Once students have been exposed to academic content in easy...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: A Picture Story Book
A scanned copy of the 1850 publication of A Picture Story Book by Josiah Westley, a nonfiction book for children.