A Literature of Questions : Nonfiction for the Critical Child.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: The Literary Study of Children's introduction 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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