Joe Sutliff Sanders

A Literature of Questions

Nonfiction for the Critical Child

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Produktbeschreibung

Nonfiction books for children-from biographies and historical accounts of communities and events to works on science and social justice-have traditionally been most highly valued by educators and parents for their factual accuracy. This approach, however, misses an opportunity for young readers to participate in the generation and testing of inform

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 147mm x 223mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781517903008
• ISBN-10: 1517903009
• Artikelnr.: 48063657

Autorenporträt

Joe Sutliff Sanders is professor of English at Kansas State University. He is author of Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story and editor of The Comics of Hergé: When the Lines Are Not So Clear.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: The Literary Study of Children’s Nonfiction
1. Beyond Authority: Questioning the Literature of Facts 
2. Voice and the Seamless Narrative of Knowledge
3. Nonfiction’s Unfinished Characters: The People Who Are Wrong, Flawed,
and Incomplete
4. Inquiry at and in the Margins: How Peritexts Encourage Critical Reading
5. Seeing Photographs: Breaking the Authority of Nonfiction’s Favorite
Medium
6. The Pursuit of Reliability in Almost Astronauts
7. The Empathy of Critical Engagement: Emotion and Sentimentality in
Children’s Nonfiction
Conclusion: Critical Engagement’s Moral Imperative
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index