In this Book
- No Kids Allowed: Children's Literature for Adults
- Book
- 2020
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
summary
Children's literature isn't just for children anymore. This original study explores the varied forms and roles of children's literature—when it's written for adults.What do Adam Mansbach's Go the F**k to Sleep and Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here! have in common? These large-format picture books are decidedly intended for parents rather than children. In No Kids Allowed, Michelle Ann Abate examines a constellation of books that form a paradoxical new genre: children's literature for adults. Distinguishing these books from YA and middle-grade fiction that appeals to adult readers, Abate argues that there is something unique about this phenomenon. Principally defined by its form and audience, children's literature, Abate demonstrates, engages with more than mere nostalgia when recast for grown-up readers. Abate examines how board books, coloring books, bedtime stories, and series detective fiction written and published specifically for adults question the boundaries of genre and challenge the assumption that adulthood and childhood are mutually exclusive.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9781421438870
Related ISBN(s)
9781421438856, 9781421438863
MARC Record
OCLC
1199308009
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2020-10-09
Language
English
Open Access
No