Children's Lit

[Joywitch M. Curmudgeon]

No: HPFGUIDX 29511

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Cindy C." <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> Is there "good" adult fiction in which children are the protagonist?

"Lolita" comes to mind, but you probably didn't mean "protagonist" in 
quite that sense. <g>

Seriously, though, I think that if the main character is a kid, the 
book is usually assumed to be children's literature, and if not, it's 
adult literature.  This is probably a bad assumption to make, but I 
bet it's the most common way of distinguishing between adult and 
children's lit.  Although anything where the main characters are 
monsters or aliens or animals are considered kiddie lit too.  For 
example, the main characters of a lot of whathisname's zillions of 
Redwall books are adults, but they're mice, and the Redwall books are 
usually considered children's books, even though as I understand it 
they weren't written that way.

Ummm.....The Little Prince?  That's usually considered a kid's book 
because the main character is a kid, but it really isn't.  OK, the 
rest of you can come with examples now.

--JMC