{"id":513,"date":"2016-04-19T19:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=513"},"modified":"2016-12-10T13:43:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T13:43:19","slug":"renaissance-for-non-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Renaissance for non-fiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC02547.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-514 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC02547-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"DSC02547\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC02547-300x183.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC02547-1024x624.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC02547.jpg 1886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s London Book Fair had a special attraction for writers and publishers of children\u2019s non-fiction. On the Wednesday (13 April) a\u00a0\u00a0seminar on the \u2018Renaissance of children\u2019s non-fiction\u2019 brought Debbie Foy of Wayland (on the left in the picture), Elizabeth Jenner of Laurence King (on the right) and illustrator William Grill (centre) together to discuss what they believed was the revival of non-fiction as an important genre in children\u2019s publishing. William Grill\u2019s book, <strong>Shackleton\u2019s Journey<\/strong> has created a sensation \u2013 will there be more ground-breaking non-fiction to follow? Most of the talk was about high-end books that might be bought as gifts, but the two publishers were optimistic about non-fiction in general \u2013 once something British publishers used to lead \u2013 finding its way back into bookshops and possibly reviews, too. Debbie Foy mentioned plans to start a new imprint which could include narrative non-fiction. Rennaissance? Possibly \u2026\u00a0Obviously, Nibweb members hope this will happen. Though some pointed out that it had never really gone away \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s London Book Fair had a special attraction for writers and publishers of children\u2019s non-fiction. On the Wednesday (13 April) a\u00a0\u00a0seminar on the \u2018Renaissance of children\u2019s non-fiction\u2019 brought Debbie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}