Biography appeals to children because, often, the story reads like a piece of fiction. Those types of biographies serve as a iink between fiction and nonfiction. The fictional techniques allow for a more liberal, less strict, telling of the facts. Authentic biographies are well-documented in order to retell a carefully researched tale of a person's life.
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