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No Kids Allowed : Children's Literature for Adults.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (243 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421438870
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No Kids AllowedDDC classification:
  • 810.99282
LOC classification:
  • PS492 .A238 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. A Is for Adult: Coloring Books, Bedtime Stories, and Picture Books for Grown-Ups -- 1. "A Book for Obsolete Children": Dr. Seuss's You're Only Old Once! and the Rise of Children's Literature for Adults -- 2. Off to Camp: Mabel Maney's The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, and Fanfiction -- 3. Material Matters: Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers as a Board Book -- 4. Baby Talk: Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here!, Fetal Personhood, and Child Authorship -- 5. Learning Left from Right: Goodnight Bush, Don't Let the Republican Drive the Bus!, and the Broadside Tradition -- 6. 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 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Abate examines how board books, coloring books, bedtime stories, and series detective fiction written and published specifically for adults question the boundaries of genre and challenge the assumption that adulthood and childhood are mutually exclusive.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. A Is for Adult: Coloring Books, Bedtime Stories, and Picture Books for Grown-Ups -- 1. "A Book for Obsolete Children": Dr. Seuss's You're Only Old Once! and the Rise of Children's Literature for Adults -- 2. Off to Camp: Mabel Maney's The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, and Fanfiction -- 3. Material Matters: Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers as a Board Book -- 4. Baby Talk: Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here!, Fetal Personhood, and Child Authorship -- 5. Learning Left from Right: Goodnight Bush, Don't Let the Republican Drive the Bus!, and the Broadside Tradition -- 6. 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 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Abate examines how board books, coloring books, bedtime stories, and series detective fiction written and published specifically for adults question the boundaries of genre and challenge the assumption that adulthood and childhood are mutually exclusive.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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