Gone are the days of dry fact books! If you or your kids think nonfiction is boring, then try these.

Picture Books and Early Readers (in order of author’s last name)

• Drawn From Nature by Helen Ahpornsiri
• Flying Eagle by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray
• What Miss Mitchell Saw by Hayley Barrett, illustrated by Diana Sudyka
• Freedom Over Me by Ashley Bryan
• A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet
• The William Hoy Story by Nancy Churnin, illustrated by Jez Tuya
• Locomotive by Brian Floca
• The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read written by Rita Lorraine Hubbard, illustrated by Oge Mora
• The Eye That Never Sleeps by Marissa Moss, illustrated by Jeremy Holmes
• Water is Water by Miranda Paul, illustrated by Jason Chin
• Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
• The Boo-Boos That Changed the World by Barry Wittenstein, illustrated by Chris Hsu
• A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park by Ashley Benham Yazdani

Middle Grade (in order of author’s last name)

• Rivers: A Visual History from River to Sea by Peter Goes
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet

Young Adult (in order of author’s last name)