TY - BOOK ID - 129042696 TI - A literature of questions : nonfiction for the critical child PY - 2018 SN - 9781517903015 PB - Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, DB - UniCat KW - American prose literature KW - American prose literature. KW - Children's literature, American KW - Children's literature, American. KW - History and criticism. KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:129042696 AB - In A Literature of Questions, Joe Sutliff Sanders offers an innovative approach to children's nonfiction that goes beyond an assessment of a work's veracity to develop a book's equivocation as a basis for interpretation. Addressing how such writing is either vulnerable or resistant to critical engagement, Sander pays attention to the attributes that nonfiction shares with other forms of literature, including voice and character, as well as special features of the genre, such as peritexts and photography. The first book to theorize children's nonfiction from a literary perspective, Sanders reveals how nonfiction can make young readers active learners rather than passive recipients of information. -- from back cover. ER -