There are two versions of the story of Owen, a baby hippo separated from his mother
by the 2004 tsunami, and Mzee, a 130-year-old tortoise who befriended him:
BEST FRIENDS : THE TRUE STORY OF OWEN AND MZEE by Roberta Edwards (Grosset &
Dunlap, 2007)
OWEN & MZEE : THE TRUE STORY OF A REMARKABLE FRIENDSHIP by Isabella Hatkoff and
Craig Hatkoff (Scholastic, 2006)
Basya Karp, Librarian
Shulamith High School and Shulamith School For Girls
Brooklyn, NY
basyak10@hotmail.com
> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 06:38:53 -0800
> From: alisong8279@YAHOO.COM
> Subject: Hit: Book Recommendations
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone recommend a non fiction book about an animal in the form of a story
>for 2nd grade? Prefirably a picture book. We are discussing different ways non
>fiction books can be portrayed. Thank you for your help!
>
> Alison
>
> Thanks again everyone!
>
> Urban Roosts by Barbara Bash
>
> Is this a House for Hermit Crab? By Megan McDonald. I pair is with Eric Carle's
>A House for Hermit Crab which is fiction.
>
> My students love Chameleon, Chameleon, by Joy Cowley. It has amazing photographs
>of chameleons changing colors, finding new homes, and eating. The best photo is a
>two page spread of the chameleon zapping his tongue out to grab a caterpillar.
>The story is fairly simple--he looks around for food, doesn't see any, leaves his
>tree to find some, encounters other animals along the way, finds food, and makes a
>friend. But it's the photography that really makes this book popular.
>
> Here are three that came immediately to mind:
> 598.8 CHE
> Cherry, Lynne. Flute's journey : the life of a wood thrush. 1st ed. San
>Diego:Harcourt Brace & Co, [1997].
> Note: A young wood thrush makes his first migration from his nesting ground in a
>forest preserve in Maryland to his winter home in Costa Rica and back again.
>
> 577.69 KUR
> Kurtz, Kevin and Powell, Consie. A day in the salt marsh. SylvanDell, [2007].
> Note: Rhyming verse introduces readers to hourly changes in the salt marsh as the
>tide comes and goes.
>
> 598.8 WIL
> Willis, Nancy Carol. The robins in your backyard. Montchanin, DE: Cucumber Island
>Storytellers, [1996].
> Note: Describes a year in the life of a pair of robins as they build a nest, lay
>eggs, and care for their young.
>
> Try the Mazee book about the hippo and turtle
> Runt by Marion Dane Bauer bears in the wild and captivity.
>
> The Koko books are absoluely wonderful, especially Koko's Kitten. Koko was the
>great ape that was taught to talk using sign language. At some point, Koko, using
>sign, asked for a kitten. Worried that she would accidentally hurt the kitten,
>they first tried to give her a stuffed kitten. She kept insisting she wanted a
>kitten, and finally they did get her a fuzzy grey kitten, which Koko herself named
>"All Ball". The stories about Koko and her kitten are in picture book format, and
>make wonderful reading, while being true. Also, there are many stories of Jame
>Herriot, the Yorkshire veterinarian who published the best seller "All Creatures,
>Great and Small" that have been turned into picture books. They are also
>excellent.
>
> Mama : a true story in which a baby hippo loses his mama during the
> tsunami, but finds a new home, and a new mama / Jeanette Winter.
> Owen & Mzee : the true story of a remarkable friendship / told by
> Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, and Paula Kahumbu ; with photographs by
> Peter Greste.
>
> Balto... or The Great Serum Race (with the Iditarod coming up they might be good
>choices
>
> Brave Norman a true story
> The Bravest Cat the true story of Scarlett
> A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman (Black History)
> The bravest Dog Ever the story of Balto
> The Story of Ruby Bridges (Black History)
> Freedom River (Black History)
>
> There's a lot of good factual books told through narratives- for a while they
>were calling them faction )fiction and facts). John Himmelman is a CT author who
>does a nice job with it.
>
> Most anything by Steve Jenkins should work. I See a Kookabura is one of my
>favorites. Animals in their habitats
>
> Sam the Sea Cow by Francine Jacobs
>
> Red-eyed Tree frog
>
> Rickie and Henri by Jane Goodall
>
> Hero Cat by Eileen Spinelli
>
> Owne and Mzee by Isabella Hatkoff
>
> Knut by Isabella Hatkoff
>
> Looking for Miza by Isabella Hatkoff
>
> Cactus Hotel is about many animals in a desert habitat. It always holds the
> attention of my 1st and 2nd graders. Another Title is Rhinoceros Mother.
> Just two off the top of my head.
>
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