I libri di divulgazione per l'infanzia nel panorama internazionale. Questioni teoriche, cenni storici e nuovi sviluppi

This article presents an analysis of children’s nonfiction: its definition, its evolution, the question of whether it can be considered part of children’s literature altogether, or rather a corpus of books that are different from the narrative, poetic, imaginative, ‘artistic’ children’s titles. In the attempt to understand which elements can contribute to the creation of a quality nonfiction, special attention is paid to the so-called ‘pictorial turn’, and more specifically to the nonfiction picturebook, a publishing phenomenon that started during the 2000s at an international level. The nonfiction picturebook is especially interesting, as a medium, because, both content- and form-wise, it is characterized by a strong experimental and innovative drive, and this inevitably affects the way knowledge is communicated and shared with children.