Date: 2008-03-06 05:41 pm (UTC)
deborah: the Library of Congress cataloging numbers for children's literature, technology, and library science (Default)
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yes, definitely on the artificial boundary. I'm very careful when I talk about this kind of thing to talk about "Books marketed towards children and young adults". While there are definitely narrative markers which make it easier to identify books "for" children, books "for" adults, and books "for" teens, one of the most concrete identifiers is what shelf they are found upon in the bookstore or library. And what makes a book for children or adults a lot has to do with narrative tastes, which change over time. Both in terms of narrative style and content matter, there are books currently being published for children which would have been considered completely inappropriate (in terms of either narrative content or style) 30 years ago. Smack comes to mind.
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