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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Informational Fiction for Kids
Today, I honor those books that are unafraid to use the best of both the fictional and nonfictional world together in one glorious mix.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Informational Fiction for Kids
They can be some of the most creative books of the year (and are a nightmare to catalogers everywhere). Take a gander at books that meld fact and fiction with aplomb.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2023 Informational Fiction for Kids
You won't see me putting these books on any of the straight-up Nonfiction lists for 2023, but I want you to acknowledge how nicely they do the job of making their subject matter bright, fun, and always always interesting.
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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2022 Informational Fiction
Precariously perched between fact and fiction, today's books ascribe themselves to neither world. Enjoy some "Informational Fiction" a.k.a. fiction with facts worked in or factual info with a healthy dollop of fiction.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2021 Informational Fiction
What is truth and what is fiction? And what happens when you stir the two together? You get today's list 31 Days, 31 Lists: Informational Fiction!
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Informational Fiction
Today's books are marvelous amalgamations of imagination and reality. They may not be easy to characterize under a Dewey Decimal Number, but they could potentially help kids better understand the state of the world today.
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A Good Old-Fashioned Nonfiction / Informational Fiction Debate
A rip-roaring conversation (with only minimal bloodshed) between myself and author Amy Alznauer about the border between fiction and nonfiction in the realm of children’s books and how carefully it should be guarded.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2019 Informational Fiction
There are a lot of great books out there in a given year that mix and meld their fiction and nonfiction parts. Here's a list that nods to some of the more stellar titles.
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