{"id":535,"date":"2009-01-11T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2009\/01\/11\/on-what-subjects-do-we-need-more-non-fiction\/"},"modified":"2009-01-11T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T08:10:00","slug":"on-what-subjects-do-we-need-more-non-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"On What Subjects Do We Need More Non-Fiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To finish off our week of non-fiction recommendations, I&#8217;m wondering what holes you think exist in the world of children&#8217;s and young adult non-fiction.<\/p>\n<p> I, for one, was happy to see&nbsp;Amulet Books publish Linas Alsenas&#8217; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hnabooks.com\/product\/show\/44233\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gay America: Struggle for Equality<\/a><\/em> last November, as&nbsp;gay men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s&nbsp;history is one topic that has CERTAINLY been overlooked in non-fiction for young adults.<\/p>\n<p> What&nbsp;else have we been missing? Are there topics you see explored too little or too infrequently (if at all)? Perhaps ones that need &quot;updating&quot;? Are there age groups for whom you think particular types of non-fiction books are lacking? If so, please share those thoughts here. (The non-fiction writers of the world eagerly await your responses!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To finish off our week of non-fiction recommendations, I&rsquo;m wondering what holes you think exist in the world of children&rsquo;s and young adult non-fiction. I, for one, was happy to see&nbsp;Amulet Books publish Linas Alsenas&rsquo; Gay America: Struggle for Equality last November, as&nbsp;gay men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s&nbsp;history is one topic that has CERTAINLY been overlooked in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}