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Author: Carol Lindeen
Copyright: 2008
Summary:
This book describes various examples of living and nonliving objects, while explaining their differences.
Features: Comparing and contrasting objects. Sorting living and nonliving.
Subtopics: Sorting various living and nonliving objects.

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Author: Elizabeth Austen
Copyright: 2014
Summary:
This book looks at specific characteristics that living things have/need to survive and be considered living.
Features: A look at different animals, a look at different resources we need to live. Glossary and Index included.
Subtopics:  How to read/use a glossary, how to use an index, needs and wants, necessities.

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Author: Kelli Hicks
Copyright: 2011
Summary:
This book does more comparing and contrasting with objects, it allows children to see why something may or may not be living. It also allows them to choose the living or nonliving object.
Features: Comparing and contrasting objects. Reasoning and explaining with facts.
Subtopics: Recognizing differences between animated objects and real objects.

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Author: Kathleen Zoehfeld
Copyright: 1995
Summary:
This book gives children a chance to look at a variety of familiar objects and determine if they are living or nonliving.
Features:
Analyzing, determining why something is or is not consider living.
Subtopics: comparing and contrasting items, animals, household items.

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Author: Bobbie Kalman
Copyright: 2007
Summary:
Reviews what it means to be a living thing, allows children to see that plants are living things.
Features: Plants, Vocabulary, Functioning systems of plants, What a plant needs.
Subtopics: how plants grow, what makes plants grow, labeling

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Author: Rebecca Rissman
Copyright: 2009
Summary:
Explains different characteristics of living and nonliving things, looks at different habitats.
Features:  Looks at different animals and habitats.
Subtopics: A variety of animals, comparing and contrasting different habitats

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Author: Bobbie Kalman
Copyright: 2007
Summary:
This non-fiction text describes characteristics that make a living thing, a living thing. It talks about needing air, sunlight, etc.
Features: Reviews vocabulary terms and definitions of words related to nonliving and living things.
Subtopics: vocabulary words related to living/nonliving things, what makes different items living or not.

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Author: Susan A. Shea
Illustrator: Tom Slaughter
Published: 2011
Summary:
This fun engaging book, gives children questions to ponder about living and non-living things. One of the examples: "If a duckling grows into a duck, can a car grow to become a truck?"
Features: bright illustrations, comparing & contrasting
Subtopics: animals, household items, transportation methods

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Author: Dona Herweck Rice
Published: 2005
Summary:
This informational text describes what plants need to grow. It contains detailed images and a rich vocabulary content.
Features: Vocabulary and glossary
Subtopics:  plant parts, what plants need, water, oxygen, sunlight, photosynthesis