Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your home library. The following picture books were published in 2025.
Browsing: nonfiction
The most decorated gymnast of all time, joins the ranks of the Ordinary People Change the World picture book biography series in I Am Simone Biles, by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos.
Learn about the role air plays in our lives and on our planet in Our Air, a nonfiction picture book by G. Brian Karas.
The Ultimate Book of the Human Body is an interactive and comprehensive overview of how the human body works for middle readers.
Discover the story of a pioneering geologist in Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites, by Sandra Neil Wallace and Nancy Carpenter.
Dive into design and architecture in What’s That Building?: An Architectural Guessing Game, by Rebecca Donnelly and Jocelyn Cho.
Discover the new ecosystem that flourishes after a tree falls in The Tomorrow Tree: How Nature Creates New Life from Old.
The Big Fat High School Algebra 2 Workbook is an excellent supplement to Algebra 2 class that features examples, problems and solutions.
Wild Moon, by Andie Powers and Lucy Rose, features the eight lunar phases of the moon and how they affect wildlife on Earth.
Learn about the symbiotic relationship between oak trees and blue jays in The Blue Jays That Grew a Forest, by Lynn Street and Anne Hunter.