5/9/2023 0 Comments Neil gaiman milk![]() When puberty begins to loom over you, you start seeking out information on what kind of person you might end up, no matter what genres you read. No so in picture books, where protagonists range from mice to cute old ladies to middle-aged tigers to actual children, but, at a certain point, children begin wanting to read about children slightly older than them. But the protagonist’s age is also pretty important in middle grade and young adult fiction. For instance, I tend to think of young adult fiction as being breezy and very readable, although that is by no means true of everything written for that audience. ![]() Obviously, reading level is the biggest determining factor, but there’s also an element of style involved. But nobody wants to hear me expound on the sociological and marketing factors behind all that at work, so I just do my best to be helpful.īut it does make me ponder those signifiers more than I have in the past. It’s one of those supposedly easy questions it’s in children’s, but where in children’s is it? It’s so easy for novels to cross the adult/young adult barrier (see Malinda Lo’s Ash) and how many “classics” written for an audience that was divided solely into adults and children now fall into into a trisected market (young adult, middle grade, and children’s). ![]() As a young person who is often found fixing up the shelving in our children’s nook, I get asked a lot by people where on earth their favorite book from childhood is. ![]() As a reader and as a bookstore employee, I’ve become very familiar with how we age books. ![]()
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