ABSTRACT
Reading nonfiction affords pleasure to its readers. As such, it can involve both aesthetic and efferent aspects of a reader’s stance. Young readers exhibit excitement and delight. They make personal associations and provide experiential references. These responses are critical to their remembering information and developing understandings of the expository texts. When information books were written in a narrative form, the students got caught up in the story and retained much of the information and conceptual structures as a by-product of enjoying a good story, albeit a true story, and when the form was expository, the students frequently translated or filled in around the information with their own real or imaginative narrative adventures. Many young readers seem to naturaly respond to nonfiction in a specific manner and other readers (even adults) are capable of experiencing and enjoying nonfiction after a certain amount of deprogramming has taken place.
