ABSTRACT
As children move towards the later primary years and beyond, report texts are used increasingly to support lessons across the curriculum. Illustrated children’s information texts on one topic like ‘Rivers’, ‘Magnets’ or ‘The Vikings’, organized non-chronologically, are what people often think of first when they hear the words ‘non-fiction for children’. In spite of increasing use of the internet for children’s research and the availability of CD-ROM and software, the print information book is still in evidence in primary school libraries and classrooms.
