What is it about?
This article examines the verbal and visual strategies used to convey disturbing or difficult scientific information to children in nonfiction picturebooks. To do so, it focuses on how four picturebooks negotiate the story of Felicette, the first and only cat-astronaut, in their efforts to teach children about space, technology, and the cosmos.
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Why is it important?
This study is important because it investigates the slippage between truth and fact in children's nonfiction.
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This page is a summary of: Cats in Space: Animal Astronauts, Scientific Information, and Nonfiction Picturebooks, Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2025, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/bkb.2025.a960549.
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