Choosing the Right Book
L.I. Matching questions to book titles
Looking for keywords in a question
Here is a list of some books you might find in the nonfiction section of a library:
Which of the books would you use to find out:
1. How many people live in NZ?
Yearbook of Population
2. Which special stamps were issued in New Zealand in 1992?
Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue
3. How to look after a puppy?
Caring for pets
4. Where the custom of Easter Eggs came from?
Dictionary of Customs and Fables
5. The date of the Wahine disaster?
Everyman’s Dictionary of Dates
6. Which records were broken at the last Olympic Games?
Guinness Book of Records
7. The size of Noah’s Ark?
The Bible
8. The speed of the first aircraft to fly under power?
A History of Flight
9. The story of how the first under four-minute mile was run?
Encyclopedia of Athletics
10. How the Greeks used a wooden horse to enter the city of Troy?
Myths and Legends
