Evaluating and Promoting Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults

Download or read book Evaluating and Promoting Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults written by Don Latham and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2025-01-07 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluating and Promoting Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults isn’t another bibliography that will quickly become outdated. Instead, it situates nonfiction resources within the recent emphasis on reading nonfiction as a way of enhancing critical thinking and combating susceptibility to “fake news.” Donald Latham offers strategies for evaluating nonfiction for the purposes of collection development, providing readers’ advisory, and developing programs using nonfiction for children and young adults. The book includes lists of professional resources as well as recommended nonfiction titles.