A literature of questions : nonfiction for the critical child /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sanders, Joe Sutliff (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
Subjects:	American prose literature > History and criticism. Children's literature, American > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the literary study of children's nonfiction
Beyond authority : questioning the literature of facts
Voice and the seamless narrative of knowledge
Nonfiction's unfinished characters : the people who are wrong, flawed, and incomplete
Inquiry at and in the margins : how peritexts encourage critical reading
Seeing photographs : breaking the authority of nonfiction's favorite medium
The pursuit of reliability in Almost astronauts
The empathy of critical engagement : emotion and sentimentality in children's nonfiction
Conclusion : critical engagement's moral imperative.