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blame the lack of slide libraries, saying that it may deprive children of essential reading material

A group of authors has triggered an alert by the decrease in non-fiction for children, asking publishers and libraries to reverse the decline or the risk of depriving children - especially children - . Equipment essential reading

Led by prolific writer nonfiction children Jenny Vaughan, 26 authors have written for The Guardian in an attempt to rescue a kind they think is in terminal decline.

"go to the end of our collective obligations," said Vaughan. "We thought something must be done - we need to start making a noise about it before the kids nonfiction is obsolete."

In the letter, the authors state that "once there were hundreds of books available, covering every topic imaginable -. But almost overnight, it seemed, the market for them has almost disappeared, do not think, because children do not want to know the real world.

"This is partly due to the lack or loss of life, school and public libraries. And then there is the belief that the Internet provides all the necessities of any information ".

official figures from Nielsen BookScan show that sales for nonfiction children fell to 41.1 pounds in mid-August, against 9% in five years. Most of these sales are made study guides - worth £ 22.6m - with the TV series tie-in books Moshi Monsters taking five card slots and are £ 2.2m for the period, 35 % in the last year.

Caroline Horn, children's literature and expert resource editor Zone children's reading books, agreed that the non-fiction children has declined significantly in recent years.

"Publishers have been reduced, in part because of people like Waterstones completely cuts in non-fiction about six or seven years. Beginning of the period and worsens as the Internet became more powerful, "he said.

Note that the group
All Party 2012 report literacy, children's reading of the Committee (pdf), in which Phil Jarrett, National Ofsted said that children "tend to read .. . documentaries, biographies, newspapers and so on ", and children in particular, are" turned off "by the lack of books that interest them.

"There's more to life than fiction for children," said Vaughan. "It's wonderful to get all the attention, but not all children want to read books all the time."
The authors call publishers to "start taking risks," to break with the curriculum and produce "new forms of non-fiction and themes that will delight and inspire. "They conclude:" Oh yes, and keeping libraries open can be a good idea, too. "