Introduction: the literary study of children's nonfiction
Beyond authority: questioning the literature of facts
Voice and the seamless narrative of knowledge
Nonfiction's unfinished characters: the people who are wrong, flawed, and incomplete
Inquiry at and in the margins: how peritexts encourage critical reading
Seeing photographs: breaking the authority of nonfiction's favorite medium
The pursuit of reliability in almost astronauts
The empathy of critical engagement: emotion and sentimentality in children's nonfiction
Conclusion: critical engagement's moral imperative.