(Re)thinking the borders
in children's nonfiction

Nonfiction or informational books for children are created in order to inform readers about the world they live in and to present facts or data through indexes, diagrams, tables of content, maps, pictures, sketches or photographs and texts that support children’s learning. They are characterized by scientific validity and artistic use of language, format, graphics and other material aspects; hence, it is vital that they encourage children’s curiosity. Additionally, the trending “fictionalizing” as an authors’ stylistic option is understandable considering that the information they want to share with children does not exist in a vacuum, but is comprised of events governed by a cause-and-effect relationship. Thus, contemporary writers draw on narrative elements and techniques they previously used in literary texts. After all, the interpretation of events, phenomena, achievements etc., all contain the element of subjectivity and for their construction some type of representation is necessary.