Gene Baretta Archives » Bookology Magazine https://www.bookologymagazine.com/tag/gene-baretta Children's Literature Sat, 06 Jun 2015 21:36:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 69996714 Melissa Stewart: A Fresh Look at Expository Nonfiction https://www.bookologymagazine.com/knock-knock/knock-knock-with-melissa-stewart-a-fresh-look-at-expository-nonfiction https://www.bookologymagazine.com/knock-knock/knock-knock-with-melissa-stewart-a-fresh-look-at-expository-nonfiction#respond Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:00:28 +0000 https://bookologymagazine.com/?p=198 by Melissa Stewart
Narrative nonfiction. The words have a nice ring to them, don’t they?
Expository nonfiction? Not so much.
Rhymes with gory, purgatory, derogatory, lavatory. Gesh, it’s no wonder expository nonfiction gets a bad rap. And yet, plenty of great nonfiction for kids is expository. Its main purpose is to explain, describe, or inform.
As far as I’m concerned, this is a golden moment for expository nonfiction because, in recent years, it’s gone through an exciting transformation.… more

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