It's a marketing gimmick, really. It's meant to flatter kids who are anything but "young adults" and seek to give the impression that litterature is closer to adult literature than to children literature.
Indeed. Like genres.
I don't think the term is so well defined either. The age group seems to vary from publisher to publisher. 12-14 to 17-18 seem to be the usual ranges. 21 sounds like a stretch, though sometimes it seems like the teenage years are stretching from both ends decade by decade.
Yup.
I prefer our (French)denominations. Everything is "Youth literature", and then you differentiate from children lit. and books for teenagers. What we call "young adults" (not really for books, but it's used often in marketing lingo) refers to young adults, ie: the 18-30 or 18-25 crowd.
That makes sense. I rather like that.
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
What does "young-adult literature" mean?
- 08/09/2010 05:08:54 PM
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I've always thought the age labels on children's books were silly, and these are no exception.
- 09/09/2010 10:19:02 AM
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