{"product_id":"a-literature-of-questions-nonfiction-for-the-critical-child-paperback-softback-9781517903015","title":"A Literature of Questions; Nonfiction for the Critical Child (Paperback \/ softback) 9781517903015","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Literature of Questions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNonfiction for the Critical Child\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoe Sutliff Sanders (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517903015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 January 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 17\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Literature of Questions\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking work of criticism not only because it covers an area of children's literature that is largely unexamined but also because it provides the field with new language and a new set of critical lenses, which scholars, educators, and writers can use in the future to analyze, evaluate, teach, and create works of nonfiction for younger readers.\"-Annette Wannamaker, Eastern Michigan University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Not many courses about children’s literature that are offered in English departments include nonfiction titles on the reading lists. \u003ci\u003eA Literature of Questions\u003c\/i\u003e will irrevocably change this situation. In the wake of Joe Sutliff Sanders’s book, it will no longer be possible to teach an undergraduate or graduate course about literature for young readers without including a section on children’s nonfiction. Every individual working in the field will want to add a copy of \u003ci\u003eA Literature of Questions\u003c\/i\u003e to their campus library and even to their personal book collection. Additionally, they will want to assign this text their students. Sanders’s work is a new classic.\"-Michelle Ann Abate, author of \u003ci\u003eBloody Murder: The Homicide Tradition in Children’s Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A welcome addition for school librarians eager to provide upper elementary, middle, or high school students with tools for evaluating the intricacies of nonfiction.\"-\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Sanders offers a literary analysis of informational children’s books. The well-researched and insightful book is required reading for those interested in children’s literature.\" -\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNonfiction 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 information. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Literature of Questions\u003c\/i\u003e, Joe Sutliff Sanders offers an innovative theoretical 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 works are either vulnerable or resistant to critical engagement, Sanders pays special attention to the attributes that nonfiction shares with other forms of literature, including voice and character, and those that play a special role in the genre, such as peritexts and photography. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first book-length work to theorize children’s nonfiction as nonfiction from a literary perspective, \u003ci\u003eA Literature of Questions\u003c\/i\u003e carefully explains how the genre speaks in unique ways to its young readers and how it invites them to the project of understanding. At the same time, it clearly lays out a series of techniques for analysis, which it then applies and nuances through extensive close readings and case studies of books published over the past half century, including recent award-winning books such as Tanya Lee Stone’s \u003ci\u003eAlmost Astronauts: Thirteen Women Who Dared to Dream\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball\u003c\/i\u003e by Kadir Nelson. By looking at a text’s willingness or reluctance to let children interrogate its information and ideological context, Sanders reveals how nonfiction can make young readers part of the project of learning rather than passive recipients of information.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Literary Study of Children’s Nonfiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Beyond Authority: Questioning the Literature of Facts \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Voice and the Seamless Narrative of Knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Nonfiction’s Unfinished Characters: The People Who Are Wrong, Flawed, and Incomplete\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Inquiry at and in the Margins: How Peritexts Encourage Critical Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Seeing Photographs: Breaking the Authority of Nonfiction’s Favorite Medium\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. The Pursuit of Reliability in \u003ci\u003eAlmost Astronauts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. The Empathy of Critical Engagement: Emotion and Sentimentality in Children’s Nonfiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Critical Engagement’s Moral Imperative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52740237492504,"sku":"9781517903015","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-literature-of-questions-nonfiction-for-the-critical-child-paperback-softback-9781517903015","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}