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Joe Sutliff Sanders is professor of English at Kansas State University. He is author of Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story and editor of The Comics of Hergé: When the Lines Are Not So Clear.
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Contents
Introduction: The Literary Study of Children’s 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
About the author
Joe Sutliff Sanders is professor of English at Kansas State University. He is author of Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story and editor of The Comics of HergÉ: When the Lines Are Not So Clear.
