At the start of the new century, and more specifically since 2010, we have witnessed an exponential increase worldwide in the number of non-fiction books for children. Not only has the number of non-fiction publications increased, the books themselves have completely changed in nature compared to the traditional children's learning books of the past. Increasingly released in the form of a picturebook - very often large format picturebooks - non-fiction publications have recently offered and continue to offer ample space for far-reaching experimentation using a range of original, surprising and previously unthinkable ways of combining transmission of knowledge and artistic research, description of the world and a poetic approach, especially achieved by means of a well-meditated and skilfully designed visual code. This volume, enriched with many full-coloured illustrations, provides a broad overview of the current children's non-fiction picturebook scene and of the research that is developing around this innovative kind of informational book.