![]() Today’s nonfiction continues to push boundaries in form and function. Some of these book creators are themselves scientists or historians, journalists or jurists, athletes or artists, models of active learning and agency for young people passionate about specific topics and subject areas. They are bearing witness to how art forms shift and transform, and illuminating historical documents and artifacts long ignored. They are sharing scientific phenomena and cutting-edge discoveries. Today’s nonfiction authors and illustrators are depicting marginalized and minority communities throughout history and in our current moment. The New York Times can play a role in changing that by adding a set of Nonfiction Best Seller lists for young people: one for picture books, one for middle grade literature, and one for young adult literature. But the genre suffers from an image problem and an awareness problem. ![]() Nonfiction books for young people are in a golden age of creativity, information-sharing, and reader-appeal. Your information will be added to the letter but your email address will remain private. If you support this request, please follow the signature collection form link to add your name and affiliation to the more than 200 educators and librarians who have already endorsed the effort. It will also acknowledge the incredible vibrancy of children’s nonfiction available today and support the substantial body of research showing that many children prefer nonfiction and still others enjoy fiction and nonfiction equally. This change will align the children’s lists with the adult best-seller lists, which separate nonfiction and fiction. This morning at the start of the new #KidsLoveNonfiction Campaign, Mary Ann Cappiello, Professor of Language and Literacy at Lesley University, and Xenia Hadjioannou, Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the Harrisburg campus of Penn State University, sent the letter below to The New York Times requesting that the paper add three children’s nonfiction best-seller lists to parallel the existing picture book, middle grade, and young adult lists, which focus on fiction. Retrieved June 29, 2023.GUEST BLOGGERS MARY ANN CAPPIELLO AND XENA HADJIOANNOUĪnnouncing the #KidsLoveNonfiction Campaign ^ "Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction". ![]()
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