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Charles Ray (UK) – editor of children's encyclopedias, such as Everybody's Enquire Within; Upendrakishore Raychowdhury (India) – Bengali; Ana María Rodríguez (US) – nature, science, cultures, history, health; Acharya Ramlochan Saran (India) – non-fiction Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Maithili, English, Nepalese
The Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children recognizes books which demonstrate excellence in the "writing of nonfiction for children." [1] [2] It is awarded annually by the National Council of Teachers of English to one American book published the previous year. [3] Up to five titles may be designated as Honor Books.
Children's non-fiction literature (also called informational) is the meeting of the genres children's literature and non-fiction. Its primary function is to describe, inform, explain, persuade, and instruct about aspects of the real world, but much non-fiction also entertains.
American non-fiction children's writers (57 P) Pages in category "Children's non-fiction writers" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
Pamela Brown (1924–1989) finished her children's novel about an amateur theatre company, The Swish of the Curtain (1941), when she was 16 and later wrote other books about the stage. [2] John Buchan (1875–1940) wrote Sir Quixote of the Moors (1895) when he was 19 and an undergraduate at the University of Glasgow.
Pages in category "American non-fiction children's writers" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 2022, Freedom to Read named Stevenson their "champion of free expression," given that many of her books—both fiction and nonfiction—have been the target of challenges due to their content. [13] The same year, the Greenville County, South Carolina resolved to remove children's books with LGBT+ content from public libraries. [38]
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 ...