Non-fiction picturebooks. Sharing knowledge as an aesthetic experience

At the start of the new century, and more specifically since 2010, we have witnessed an exponential increase worldwide in the number of non-fiction books for children. Not only has the number of non-fiction publications increased, the books themselves have completely changed in nature compared to the traditional children’s learning books of the past. Increasingly released in the form of a picturebook - very often large format picturebooks - non-fiction publications have recently offered and continue to offer ample space for far-reaching experimentation using a range of original, surprising and previously unthinkable ways of combining transmission of knowledge and artistic research, description of the world and a poetic approach, especially achieved by means of a well-meditated and skilfully designed visual code. This volume, enriched with many full-coloured illustrations, provides a broad overview of the current children’s non-fiction picturebook scene and of the research that is devel