Query: Is 2017 a Stronger Than Usual Year for Children’s Nonfiction?

Once at NYPL I asked Marc Aronson to do a Children’s Literary Salon on the topic of the history of children’s nonfiction. It was eye-opening. It was extraordinary. It was not recorded for posterity so unless he does it again sometime (hint hint, Marc, hint hint) we have nothing to refer to aside from his saved slides.  I don’t need any recording, however, to tell me that nonfiction for kids was abysmal in my youth and strong and wonderful in America in the 21st century.  Every year I see a ma...