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A literature of questions : nonfiction for the critical child / Joe Sutliff Sanders.

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  • ISBN: 9781517903008 (hc : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9781517903015 (pb : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: pages cm
  • Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject:
American prose literature > History and criticism.
Children's literature, American > History and criticism.

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