Literature of Questions : Nonfiction for the Critical Child, Paperback by San...
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Literature of Questions : Nonfiction for the Critical Child, Paperback by San.... Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (). Literature of Questions : Nonfiction for the Critical Child, Paperback by Sanders, Joe Sutliff, ISBN 1517903017, ISBN-13 9781517903015, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This volume offers a theory of children’s nonfiction and examines its form, what its form reveals about the genre’s ideologies, and how it asks readers to engage in nonlinear thinking. It outlines a method for analyzing children’s nonfiction from a literary perspective and emphasizes aspects where nonfiction chooses between inviting and refusing critical engagement, focusing on American children’s nonfiction beginning with the late colonial period and specific moments in books, rather than books as a whole. It explores the argument that nonfiction must be a literature of authority, and how information about nonfiction topics should be thought of as a literature of questions rather than answers; how the voice of a book can invite or close off critical engagement, through point of view, character, and other techniques; the use of sidebars, captions, footnotes, introductions, notes for teachers, and other aspects to centralize debate or push it to the margins; how books use captions, prose, layout, and other elements to indicate that a photograph should be interpreted; and how nonfiction characterized by humility offers information that is truer, using the case study of Almost Astronauts. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()
