Informational Books
Selected Books
These informational picture books and many more can be found in the Children's Collection on the main floor of Montgomery Library.
The Only Way to Make Bread by 
Killer Underwear Invasion! How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation, & Conspiracy Theories by 
Blue: A History of the Color by 
The Universe in You by Informational Books
Informational picture books provide children with facts and illustrations about various nonfiction topics.
Find these informational picture books and many others in the Children's Collection on Montgomery Library's main floor.
| All the water in the world / George Ella Lyon | GB 848 .L96 2011 | ||
| An American Story / Kwame Alexander | E 441 .A5758 2023 | ||
| Animals by the numbers: a book of infographics / Steve Jenkins | QL 49 .J4453 2016 | ||
| Balloons over Broadway: the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's parade / Melissa Sweet | PN 1982 .S27 S84 2011 | ||
| Blue: a history of the color / Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond | QC 495.5 .B74 2022 | ||
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QH 75 .M44 2018 | ||
| Bring on the birds / Susan Stockdale | QL 676.2 .S7535 2011 | ||
| Buried sunlight: how fossil fuels have changed the earth / Molly Bang | TP 318.3 .B36 2014 | ||
| Camp Panda: helping cubs return to the wild / Catherine Thimmesh | QL 737 .C27 T477 2018 | ||
| Caring for your teeth / Siân Smith | RK 63 .S65 2013 | ||
| A chicken followed me home! / Robin Page | SF 487.5 .P34 2015 | ||
| Cicada Symphony / Sue Fliess, Gareth Lucas | QL 527 .C5 F55 2023 | ||
| Dare the wind: the record-breaking voyage... / Tracey Fern | G 478 .C74 F47 2014 | ||
| Dinosaur feathers / Dennis Nolan | QE 861.5 .N65 2019 | ||
| Don't let them disappear / Chelsea Clinton | QL 83 .C545 2019 | ||
| Drawing from memory / Allen Say | NC 975.5 .S39 A2 2011 | ||
| Drowned city: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans / Don Brown | HV 636 .N4 B75 2015 | ||
| Electric Ben: the amazing life and times of Benjamin Franklin / Robert Byrd | E 302.6 .F8 B97 2012 | ||
| The eye that never sleeps / Marissa Moss | HV 7911 .P4675 M67 2018 | ||
| Fabulous frogs / Martin Jenkins | QL 668 .E2 J46 2015 | ||
| Feathers: not just for flying / Melissa Stewart | QL 697.4 .S74 2014 | ||
| Flight: the journey of Charles Lindbergh / Robert Burleigh | TL 540 .L5 B83 1991 | ||
| Forging freedom: a true story of heroism during the Holocaust / Hudson Talbott | D 804.66 .P747 2000 | ||
| Friends for freedom: The story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass / Suzanne Slade | HQ 1413 .A55 S538 2014 | ||
| From the tops of the trees / Kao Kalia Yang | HV 640 .Y368 2021 | ||
| Fungi Grow / Maria Gianferrari, Diana Sudyka | QK 603.5 .G53 2023 | ||
| Giant squid / Candace Fleming | QL 430.3 .A73 F54 2016 | ||
| The girl who drew butterflies / Joyce Sidman | QL 31 .M53 S53 2018 | ||
| Grand Canyon / Jason Chin | F 788 .C485 2017 | ||
| The great stink: how Joseph Bazalgette solved London's poop pollution problem / Colleen Paeff | TD 564 .L8 P344 2021 | ||
| Handle with care: an unusual butterfly journey / Lorree Griffin Burns | QL 544.2 .B79 2014 | ||
| Harlem Hellfighters / J. Patrick Lewis | D 570.33 369th .L49 2014 | ||
| Hear my voice: the testimonies of children detained at the southern border of the United States | JV 6600 .B54 2021 | ||
| Hello, puddle! / Anita Sanchez | QH 541.5.F7 S26 2022 | ||
| Hey, water! / Antoinette Porter | GB 662.3 .P688 2019 | ||
| Hippos are huge! / Jonathan London | QL 737 .U57 L66 2015 | ||
| Honeybee / Candace Fleming | QL 586 .A6 F533 2020 | ||
| How to say hello to a worm / Kari Percival | SB 457 .P46 2022 | ||
| I face the wind / Vicki Cobb | QC 931.4 .C63 2003 | ||
| Island: a story of the Galapagos / Jason Chin | QH 198 .G3 C44 2012 | ||
| Killer underwear invasion / Elise Gravel | PN 4784.F27 G73 2022 | ||
| Life on Surtsey / Loree Griffen Burns | QH 166 .B87 2017 | ||
| Locomotive / Brian Floca | TJ 603.2 .F56 2013 | ||
| Look up! Bird-watching in your own backyard / Anne LeBlanc Cate | QL 677.5 .C38 2013 | ||
| Mesmerized: how Ben Franklin solved a mystery that baffled all of France / Mara Rockliff | E 302.6 .F8 R65 2015 | ||
| Moonbird: a year on the wind with the great survivor B95 / Phillip M. Hoose | QL 696 .C48 H66 2012 | ||
| Mummies made in Egypt / Aliki | DT 62 .M7 A43 1979 | ||
| Mysterious patterns: finding fractals in nature / Sarah C. Campbell | QA 445.5 .C34 2014 | ||
| Nano: the spectacular science of the very (very) small / Jess Wade | QC 176.8 .N35 W33 2021 | ||
| Neighborhood sharks / Katherine Roy | QL 638.9 .R685 2014 | ||
| Ocean sunlight: how tiny plants feed the seas / Molly Bang | QH 515 .B26 2012 | ||
| The only way to make bread / Cristina Quinter; Sarah Gonzales | TX 769 .Q56 2023 | ||
| Over and under the snow / Kate Messner | QL 753 .M475 2011 | ||
| Parrots over Puerto Rico / Susan L. Roth | QL 696 .P7 R68 2013 | ||
| Pass go and collect $200 / Tanya Lee Stone | GV 1469 .M65 S76 2018 | ||
| The people remember / Ibi Zoboi | E 185 .Z636 2021 | ||
| A place for turtles / Melissa Stewart | QL 666 .C5 S83 2013 | ||
| Raindrops roll / April Pulley Sayre | GB 848 .S28 2015 | ||
| A seed grows / Antoinette Portis | QK 731.P599 2022 | ||
| Separate is never equal / Duncan Tonatiuh | LC 214.2 .T66 2014 | ||
| Sequoyah: the Cherokee man who gave his people writing / James Rumford | E 99 .C5 S3875 2004 | ||
| Spooked! / Gail Jarrow | PN 1991.77 .W3 J37 2018 | ||
| The stuff of stars / Marion Dane Bauer | QB 983 .B38 2018 | ||
| Summertime sleepers / Melissa Stewart | QH 523 .S74 2021 | ||
| There was a party for Langston / Jason Reynolds | PZ 7 .R33593 Th 2023 | ||
| Tomfoolery: Randolph Caldecott and the Rambunctious Coming-of-Age of Children's Books / Michelle Markel, Barbara McClintock |
NC 978.5 .C3 M375 2023 | ||
| The tragic tale of the Great Auk / Jan Thornhill | QL 696 .C42 T56 2016 | ||
| Two New Years / Richard Ho, Lynn Scurfield | PS 3608 .O145 T96 2023 | ||
| Unspeakable: the Tulsa Race Massacre | F 704 .T92 W43 2021 | ||
| The universe in you / Jason Chin | QH 273.2 .C45 2022 | ||
| You are home: an ode to the National Parks / Evan Turk | E 160 .T87 2019 | ||
| Your legacy: A bold reclaiming of our enslaved history /Schele Williams | E 185 .W717 2021 | ||
| The waiting place: when home is lost and a new one not yet found / Dina Nayeri | JV 6346 .N39 2022 | ||
| We are still here: Native American truths everyone should know / Traci Sorell | E 77.4 .S625 2021 | ||
| What a Map Can Do / Gabrielle Balkan, Alberto Lot | Z 7 .H389 Par 2018 | ||
| When Marian sang / Pam Munoz Ryan | ML 3930 .A5 R93 2002 | ||
| When the beat was born: DJ Kool Herc... / Laban Carrick Hill | ML 3930 .K68 H55 2013 | ||
| Your place in the universe / Jason Chin | QB 991 .C66 C45 2020 |
Sibert Medal
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal has been awarded annually since 2001 to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year. The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books. The Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, administers the award.
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