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100 1 _aAbate, Michelle Ann,
_d1975-
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245 1 0 _aNo kids allowed :
_bchildren's literature for adults /
_cMichelle Ann Abate.
260 _aBaltimore :
_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
_c(c)2020.
300 _a1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) :
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505 0 0 _aIntroduction: A Is for Adult: Coloring Books, Bedtime Stories, and Picture Books for Grown-Ups --
_tA Book for Obsolete Children : Dr. Seuss' You're Only Old Once! and the Rise of Children's Literature for Adults --
_tOff to Camp: Mabel Maney's The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, and Fanfiction --
_tMaterial Matters: Art Spiegelman's In The Shadow of No Towers as a Board Book --
_tBaby Talk: Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here!, Fetal Personhood, and Child Authorship --
_tLearning Left From Right: Goodnight Bush, Don't Let the Republican Drive the Bus!, and the Broadside Tradition --
_tNot Kidding Around: Go the F**k to Sleep and the New Adult Honesty about Parenthood --
_tConclusion: Both Radical and Reinforcing: The Complicated Cultural Significance of Children's Literature for Adults.
520 0 _a"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"--
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650 0 _aAmerican literature
_y21st century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aJuvenile-style literature for adults
_zUnited States.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2446107&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_dCynthia Snell