TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abate,Michelle Ann
TI  - No kids allowed: children's literature for adults 
SN  - 9781421438870
AV  - PS492 .N655 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Juvenile-style literature for adults
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: A Is for Adult: Coloring Books, Bedtime Stories, and Picture Books for Grown-Ups --; A Book for Obsolete Children : Dr. Seuss' You're Only Old Once! and the Rise of Children's Literature for Adults --; Off to Camp: Mabel Maney's The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, and Fanfiction --; Material Matters: Art Spiegelman's In The Shadow of No Towers as a Board Book --; Baby Talk: Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here!, Fetal Personhood, and Child Authorship --; Learning Left From Right: Goodnight Bush, Don't Let the Republican Drive the Bus!, and the Broadside Tradition --; Not Kidding Around: Go the F**k to Sleep and the New Adult Honesty about Parenthood --; Conclusion: Both Radical and Reinforcing: The Complicated Cultural Significance of Children's Literature for Adults; 2; b
N2  - "The author analyzes what she sees as a new literary genre, emerging in the eighties, which she calls "children's literature for adults": that is, books with the visual format and verbal register of children's books but with a wry and knowing message meant for adults. The author conducts close readings of a series of books in this genre. She contends that the contemporary interest in the genre suggests that an adult's relationship with childhood may be something other than linear"--
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2446107&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
ER  -