I'm a nonfiction children's author. I've written 40 books for a variety of publishers. I love my job. But I have a confession: I didn't love nonfiction as a child. I grew up in the 80s. If you are anywhere near my age, you likely don't remember loving nonfiction books as a child. Most of us didn't back then. Children's nonfiction books were boring. Really. They were full…