DroneRights [it/its]@lemm.ee to Shower Thoughts@kbin.socialEnglish · edit-211 months agoThe Hobbit is YAmessage-squaremessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareDroneRights [it/its]@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoYoung adult fiction
minus-squareDamaskox@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoYoung adult or teen’s story. I don’t recall the story having explicit or otherwise harmful material for kids.
minus-squareDamaskox@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoYeah. I just don’t know what justifies a story to be rather an young adult story, if it would (otherwise?) fit (better) in a child’s story section 🤔 I mean - what makes The Hobbit an young adult story rather than a child’s? Violence? Sexual material?
minus-squareDamaskox@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoSo they use…a non-logical marketing category? Or there’s something I don’t understand 😅
minus-squareWHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoWhen I read it in my preteen youth in the early 80s it was in the “children’s section” of our local library in podunk Georgia.
What is YA?
Young adult fiction
Young adult or teen’s story.
I don’t recall the story having explicit or otherwise harmful material for kids.
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Yeah.
I just don’t know what justifies a story to be rather an young adult story, if it would (otherwise?) fit (better) in a child’s story section 🤔
I mean - what makes The Hobbit an young adult story rather than a child’s? Violence? Sexual material?
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So they use…a non-logical marketing category?
Or there’s something I don’t understand 😅
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Haha!
When I read it in my preteen youth in the early 80s it was in the “children’s section” of our local library in podunk Georgia.
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