Evaluating and Promoting Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults

Evaluating and Promoting Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults isn’t another bibliography that will quickly become outdated.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.

Don Latham is a professor in the School of Information at Florida State University. His research focuses on information behavior of young adults, digital literacies, and young adult literature and literacy practices, and he has published in such journals as Library Quarterly, Library and Information Science Research, Children’s Literature, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, and Children’s Literature in Education. He has received research grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, OCLC/ALISE, and the Florida State University Council on Research and Creativity. He is co-editor of From Text to Epitext: Expanding Students’ Comprehension, Engagement, and Media Literacy (2021), The Information Literacy Framework: Case Studies of Successful Implementation (2020), Literacy Engagement through Peritextual Analysis (2019), and co-author of Young Adult Resources Today: Connecting Teens with Books, Music, Games, Movies, and More (2014). He teaches graduate courses in Information Needs of Children, Information Needs of Young Adults, Graphic Novels in Libraries, and in spring 2023 he will teach a special topics course on Nonfiction Resources for Children and Young Adults.