Stewart put forward "five categories of nonfiction children's books" on his blog. This idea received an excellent response. Not only teachers like this classification method, but also librarians, authors and editors of children's books. It is believed that this classification method brings a clear idea for the classification of children's nonfiction works today.
School library journal published the article "Five Kinds of Children's Non-fiction Works", which received a warm response again.
Teachers and librarians believe that classifying books in this way can help students understand the world formed by non-fiction literary works and feel the information conveyed by the works.
But when Stewart thought deeply about the relationship between categories, he realized that the tree diagram he had made before was not perfect, so Stewart revised it as follows:
At the meeting of American Fiction Association (AASL), Stuart introduced this classification method to the audience. After the meeting, people from Lerner, a famous K 12 education publishing house, found Stewart. They put forward an incredible idea-they want to use this system to classify all the books in the publishing house! Lerner Press made a detailed classification map:
So far, this classification method has been relatively perfect. Non-fiction English children's books are divided into five categories:
Interactive children's books
Books used to learn a certain skill are mostly operation guides and recipes, such as how to draw the most beautiful cat in the world.
Browse children's books
Books with many illustrations and simple words can be skipped. These books have outstanding visual effects, and generally talk about some interesting and rare knowledge, such as how dinosaurs lived.
Traditional children's books
Introduce a topic as a whole, and the language style is simple and direct, similar to the explanatory text. Like motorcycles.
Explain children's books
Vivid language, creative writing and in-depth writing on a topic. Like playing like an animal.
Narrative children books
Tell real people and stories in moving language. For example, the biography of Williams.
For parents and children, this classification is very practical ~ children can predict the content style and presentation form of a book through this classification, so as to quickly understand whether this is the book they want to read. It is also easy for parents to know the types of books their children like to read. As long as you choose the right book, children will definitely like reading.