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Children's non-fiction literature (also called informational) is non-fiction written as children's literature, educating a young (typically pre-teen) audience about the world while oftentimes also seeking to entertain them in the process. [1] [2] Generally books of this genre feature simpler words and ideas, as well as pictures.
Eyewitness Books (called Eyewitness Guides in the UK) is a series of educational nonfiction books. They were first published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley in 1988. The series now has over 160 titles on a variety of subjects, such as dinosaurs, Ancient Egypt, flags, chemistry, music, the solar system, film, and William Shakespeare ...
This is a list of authors who have written non-fiction (informational) books for children. For a discussion of the criteria used to define something as a work of children's literature, see children's literature .
Lauren Tarshis is an American author of children's books, with several series of fiction, non-fiction and historical fiction works found in thousands of libraries and translated into several languages. [2] [3] [4] She is the author of the New York Times Bestselling series I Survived. The books, fast-paced historical fiction for kids in grades 3 ...
YouTube Kids has faced criticism from advocacy groups, particularly the Fairplay Organization, for concerns surrounding the app's use of commercial advertising, as well as algorithmic suggestions of videos that may be inappropriate for the app's target audience, as the app has been associated with a controversy surrounding disturbing or violent ...
The book received a strong positive review by John Updike in The New York Times, in which he said, "While not quite so sprightly as Stuart Little, and less rich in personalities and incident than Charlotte's Web – that paean to barnyard life by a city humorist turned farmer – The Trumpet of the Swan has superior qualities of its own; it is the most spacious and serene of the three, the one ...
Non-fiction work(s) Film adaptation(s) 13 Hours (2014), Mitchell Zuckoff: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) The Accidental Billionaires (2009), Ben Mezrich: The Social Network (2010) Across the Wide Missouri (1947), Bernard DeVoto: Across the Wide Missouri (1951) Air America (1985), Christopher Robbins: Air America (1990)
Children's non-fiction gained great importance in Russia at the beginning of the century. A ten-volume children's encyclopedia was published between 1913 and 1914. Vasily Avenarius wrote fictionalized biographies of important people like Nikolai Gogol and Alexander Pushkin around the same time, and scientists wrote for books and magazines for ...