Most non-fiction about world events are all lies. That is why some truth can only be told as fiction.

No doubt about it!

Tons of life lessons in fiction

I always go off on the fiction haters. Fiction is important for kids to practice their emotions. There are parts of the emotional spectrum I've still never experienced in meat world that I've felt from reading fiction. And lots of fiction isn't fiction. C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength LOTR etc. ...