What should you be reading? Nonfiction! Think of it like fitness for your brain. From babies to seniors, the benefits of reading nonfiction at all ages really cannot be denied.
For kids, nonfiction books foster critical thinking and information-gathering skills, builds vocabulary and language, helps make real-world connections, comprehend increasingly complex text and support study-related investigations. It’s important that children listen to, read and comprehend as much informational text as they do narrative texts. What kids read, not just how much, matters.
Adults will find reading nonfiction books improves general knowledge, helps them understand the past, develops analytical thinking, increases comprehension abilities, teaches life lessons, and improves the ability to concentrate.
Recommended titles from our juvenile collection are the Ordinary People Change the World series by Brad Metzler, which include the likes of Lucille Ball and Sacagawea as well as Tails by Katrine Crow. Science information from wedges to pulleys can be found in the new John Wood series, A Maker’s Guide.
Adults, be sure to look at our new adult nonfiction shelves for an array of informational texts, from This is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Sharon Rogers and Ogi Ogas to Pickleball is Life: The Complete Guide to Feeding Your Obsession by Erin McHugh.
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