nonfiction for the critical child
"[This book theorizes] children's nonfiction as nonfictionfrom a literary perspective. [It also] 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 . . . lays out a series of techniques for analysis, which it then applies and nuances through extensive close readings and case studies of books published"--Provided by publisher.
