[…] by now there are many texts for children that address adults, as it were, over the shoulder of their child adressees. Thery are all rife with pseudophilosophical and pseudopsychological statements, which adults allegedly like to find in books for children. I doubt very much whether these statements would be at all acceptable in books for adults; I have a strong hunch that they would not. They have become almost mandatory, however, in children's books whose writers think that they should address parents or other adults who might read the text to the child. Personally I must admit that I find this thinly disguised genre of books for children that actually address adults quite tiresome. It appears to have become a channel for conveying simple and oversimplified messages, which seemingly conceal deeper thoughts that secure adult enjoyment of the texts but cannot be conveyed in books for adults. (Z. Shavit, The Double Attribution of Texts for Children and How It Affects Writing for Children. In: S.L. Beckett (ed.), Transgressing Boundaries: Writing for a dual audience of children and adults (pp. 83-98). New York: Garland 1999, p. 94).
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Tankevækkende. Shavit-citatet nedenfor er fra 1999 og beskriver en tradition i angloamerikansk børnelitteratur - men det er måske ikke så svært at finde et par danske eksempler.
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