Choosing the right book

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 non-fiction 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