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Unexpected Jolts of Children's Literature

July 30, 2025 by Betsy Bird

Unexpected Jolts of Children’s Literature

While normally this feature looks at adult books about children's literature, today we're featuring children's authors that also write books for adults. Just watch out for the pen names!

May 7, 2025 by Betsy Bird

Unexpected Jolts of Children’s Literature

From Markus Zusak to Louis Sachar. From Bruno Munari to Janice N. Harrington. The overlap between adult books and children's books becomes evident as I celebrate new titles for adults by writers for kids.

August 2, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Unexpected Jolts of Children’s Literature

It's that time again. Time to discuss cases in which the world of adult literature and the world of children's books intersect in all new and interesting ways.

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Figured I’d get one more of these in here before the end of the year. Just to remind you, this series is primarily focused on adult titles that have some connection to the world of children’s literature in some way. It could be the focus of the book. It could be the author. It’s wide […]

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It's that time again! Time to investigate those books written for adults that have some kind of direct tie to children's literature. Today, the roster includes worms, socialists, memoirs, and lust.

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Welcome to a series I like to produce on the regular. "Unexpected Jolts of Children's Literature" is what happens when an adult book discusses children's literature in some manner.

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Today, let's look at some recent and upcoming publications. Each one has something to say about kidlit (so to speak). Each and every last one has a point of view. But which are the good ones? We shall see . . .

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Unexpected Jolts of Children's Literature returns! Let's see what's going on in the adult publishing world right now and whether or not it has any relation to the things that we do.

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