[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: The curious incident of the dog in the night

[storm]

I've just recently completed my studies in the area of children's
literature, and the Curious
Incident is one of the books I focused on for a fairly large section of my
course. What makes
[shaun]

the Curious Incident a children's book is that it was deliberately marketed
as such (which
includes submission to children's magazines, and children's literature
magazines for review),
and Haddon at least initially seems to have viewed it as such. More recently
he's started
saying that it was an adult book from the start, but that doesn't match
earlier statements he
made.

Because the book attracted almost instant attention from adults (including a
number of
prizes), his publisher and bookshops began to target the adult audience as
well, so I'm not
surprised you found the book in the regular fiction section. That's a
marketing decision, which
really has very little to do with the classification of the book.
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all of which returns us to harry, a book marketed as a children's book but
immediately picked up by adults. :-)

cheers

storm
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