You're viewing a single thread.
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.
I don't recall the story having explicit or otherwise harmful material for kids.
Of course not; The Hobbit started out as bedtime stories Tolkien made up for his kids.
But, to paraphrase the proverb, what happens in Rivendell stays in Rivendell. (Likewise for Lothlorien.)
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?Marketing. YA is a marketing category, not a genre.
So they use...a non-logical marketing category?
Or there's something I don't understand 😅
Don't ask me, man. If I understood marketing or was any good at it I wouldn't be fucking around with computers for a living.
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.
My copy from the 1950s is illustrated.