{"id":320,"date":"2009-01-08T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2009\/01\/08\/your-favorite-non-fiction-answering-where\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T08:10:00","slug":"your-favorite-non-fiction-answering-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Your Favorite Non-Fiction Answering "WHERE?""},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a non-fiction filled week here on ShelfTalker. We’ve so far done WHO?<\/a> books, WHAT?<\/a> books, and WHEN?<\/a> books. Today is WHERE?, and I invite you to be creative with your answers to this one, as "where" does not, of course, have to be a physical place, nor does it have to be a place on Planet Earth if it is.<\/p>\n

One of my (VERY new) favorite books that answers the question "WHERE?" is Brian Floca’s forthcoming Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11<\/em><\/a> (Atheneum, April 2009). The answer to "where?" is obviously space, and Brian Floca really does take you there on these pages, with a lightness and care and human touch that draws readers right into this story, right up in the shuttle, right ONTO the moon. Holy heck do I ever love this book. When my Simon & Schuster spring kit arrived I carried the F&G back and forth from work to home so that I could be prepared to show it to anyone I met in either place who might ask me what I’d been reading and enjoying lately. I’ve read multiple Apollo books coming out this spring, but this one trumps them all. The illustrations, the writing, the remarkable attention to detail in both make this a picture book that will and should<\/em> receive plenty of awards attention in 2009. (I’m knockin’ on wood, though, JUST in case. Let it never be said that I jinxed this wonderful piece of non-fiction out of its just deserts!)<\/p>\n

Another WHERE? book on my list of favorites is The Secret of Priest’s Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story<\/a><\/em> by Peter Lane Taylor and Christos Nicola (Kar-Ben Publishing, 2007). Like Moonshot<\/em>, this book is a superb blend of science and history. The "WHERE?" in this book is "inside a cave," specifically a cave in Ukraine where 38 Jews hid from the Nazis over the course of what was almost an entire year — earning them the unofficial record for the longest time a human being has spent underground. The account of their survival is fascinating. And the explanation of how their story was discovered in the first place is equally so. Interviews with survivors and photos (both historical and contemporary) bring this story to life for the reader and make this one VERY memorable book.<\/p>\n

What "WHEN?" books do you love? Please comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a non-fiction filled week here on ShelfTalker. We’ve so far done WHO? books, WHAT? books, and WHEN? books. Today is WHERE?, and I invite you to be creative with your answers to this one, as “where” does not, of course, have to be a physical place, nor does it have to be a place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}