Nonfiction Who Am I Author EditorPublisher Professor Nonfiction fan Who Are You Public School Elementary Middle HS What Is the Pleasure Most Often How Does Story Fit With What Do You Look Forward to in Reading ID: 359123
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Getting Past the “non” in
NonfictionSlide2
Who Am I?
Author
Editor/Publisher
Professor
Nonfiction fanSlide3
Who Are You?
Public
School
Elementary
Middle
HSSlide4
What Is the Pleasure?Slide5
Most OftenSlide6
How Does Story Fit WithSlide7
What Do You Look Forward to in Reading?
Character
Story
Plot
*********
Do you want to know what is coming or to be surprised?Slide8
Are There Other Pleasures In
Reading?
To put this another way, what are the Slide9
Passions
Slide10
For Some Readers
Data
Facts
StatsSlide11
CollectSlide12
CompeteSlide13
MasterSlide14
Act
Assemble, build, plan – DIY, robotics, Maker spaces, crafts…Slide15
Key Step
Recognize the NF pleasure in gathering facts, gaining knowledge, with focus on
Doing
, not
Imagining
Owning
not
Empathizing
Slide16
Is This the Only Goal of Reading?
No
But now we are talking about pleasure reading, not the role reading may possibly play in emotional developmentSlide17
Books That Offer These Pleasures
Guinness
Ripley
Weird and Wacky
Minecraft
Origami
Paper Airplanes
Almanacs of Military Equipment
Sports stats and recordsSlide18
Think about how to feature these books and this kind of pleasure reading
Have you ever made displays on different kinds of Collecting:
Items
(coins, stamps, shells)
Data
(biggest, smallest, fastest, slowest)
Names
(dinosaurs, bugs, stars, state and world capitals)
Ranking
(cars, planes, phones, superheroes) Slide19
Fantasy Sports Night
NO BETTING
Gather to share stats, insights, tips to assemble fantasy teams
Math
Analysis
Game Theory
IntergenerationalSlide20
American Libraries
Friday
Night Library Lights
To reach sports fans, libraries offer resources to a growing number of fantasy league players
By Adam
Doster
| November 26, 2013Slide21
In These Books and For These Readers
The information or desire for knowledge comes first, the reading experience is an added extraSlide22
Images
Almost all NF for children and teenagers is lavishly illustrated
Browsing pleasure –
Two pathways through NFSlide23
Displays
Life Size
Dinos
; Tracks – measure size of
dino
across library
Lavish Photos
Dramatic Spreads
Make visual richness of NF an attraction --- beyond subjectSlide24
Steve JenkinsSlide25
But What About Story?
What is Narrative NF?Slide26
Notice
“Factual information” – maybe
“To make an exciting story” – as if the facts themselves were not excitingSlide27
How Does it Differ FromSlide28
Simple
Noisy Paint Box
– invented scenes to help give a sense of subject, used to explain fascinating complex experiences – thus, Historical Fiction
Me Jane
– nothing added to what can be documented, uses autobiographical stories and archival images to paint a portrait of the girl who would become a famous scientist – thus, Narrative NonfictionSlide29Slide30Slide31
The Narrative in Narrative NF
Does NOT mean story trumps the obligation to what can be either documented, or is clearly labeled as speculation.
It DOES mean the author places a strong value on engaging the reader through fully realized incidents and narrative devices such as
“you-are-there” opening scenes
or cliff-hanger chapter endingsSlide32
“Reads Like a Novel”
For
some
readers, this will be the hook into nonfiction
“I couldn’t put it down”
“I never knew X could be so interesting”
The reading experience comes first, the information or knowledge is an added benefit. Slide33
Adult
Cod
;
Longitude
– single item opens wide
The Devil in the White City
– dramatic events lead to exploration of time/place/event
Into Thin Air
– adventure and knowledge woven togetherSlide34Slide35
Now In Books for Younger Readers
Adaptations – Lincoln, Nazi Hunters
Similar structures – Bomb, Sugar – Rice, Bread, Slide36Slide37
Pro Con
Adult advances give author time to research and write – can produce depth and voice not always available in books for younger readers
How has the book been adapted? Cutting is not the same as adapting. Reaching younger readers means thinking of them as your audience. How have sources been adapted?Slide38
Two Kinds of NF Pleasure Reading
1)
The information or desire for knowledge comes first, the reading experience is an added
extra. (think travel guide)
2)
The reading experience comes first, the information or knowledge is an added
extra. (think travel memoir)Slide39Slide40
Yet Another PassionSlide41
First Person NF
Nonfiction does NOT mean distant, cold, “objective,” textbook voice
Nonfiction is the quest for knowledge, making use of the rules of a profession (scientist, mathematician, archaeologist, biologist…)
More and more book bring young readers into nonfiction as PROCESS not as ResultSlide42
SITFS LGB
My Nat Geo Books
All get to outcome via the experience of the individual seeking an answer
Adventure, exploration, mistakes, set-backs, required skills, new outcomesSlide43Slide44Slide45
http://
bluelionphotos.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-rising-star-interviews.htmlSlide46
Announcing to Young People
It is not that we know and you don’t – we are learning, you can too, we can explore togetherSlide47
HS
Personal passion of author
Paul
Tanya
Keckla
Steve
TobinSlide48Slide49Slide50
Winter 2017
The Eyes of the World
How Robert
Capa
and Gerda Taro Tried to Change History With Photos
Marc Aronson and Marina
BudhosSlide51
NF Animated by Passion
Goal is to engage, excite – but there may be opposing ideas/views
Great – no book must do it all – make the case, you in library can pair with others, feature the debateSlide52
To Review
Younger readers: facts AND story
Middle readers: the adventure of discovery
HS readers: NF contention and debateSlide53