ENG 2110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fairy Tale, Lewis Carroll, Young Adult Fiction
8 Feb 2018
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One of the only fields of literature defined by its audience (young adult literature is another if we consider it a separate field). [arthur] ransome never seemed to care much for children, which may well be a necessary qualification for writing successfully about and for them. Most adults like children because they are different from them; a child-like adult like ransome dislikes them and is bored by them, precisely because he is like them. For that very reason, he can understand their games and attitudes as an adult cannot, and so his writings interest them. A. a. milne, not at all a child-like man, was just the opposite; he really liked children (as. Lewis carroll did), and so wrote about them as it were from without, as an adult. Winnie the pooh books enchanted adults, as realizing their picture of children, but rarely pleased children themselves .
