6/11/2023 0 Comments Plain City by Virginia Hamilton![]() ![]() ![]() Their style is simple, at least in relation to the discourse of writing for more mature audiences.The texts imply an audience of child readers-or at least, of readers younger than their writers-and address them in terms that make their being younger a matter of significance, something that leads these readers to require special forms of address and special kinds of content.I arrived at the items on this list through a process of closely reading the texts of the five stories. I chose them as a diverse group of nevertheless representative examples of mainstream children’s literature in English The Hidden Adult includes descriptions of how I chose them and why I believe they might be representative of frequently found characteristics of children’s literature, and offers considerations of reasons why I might or might not be wrong about that. This list, which appears at the end of the first chapter of my book The Hidden Adult: Defining Children’s Literature, emerged from a close reading of just five English-language stories for children: ![]()
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