[ SECRET POST #5439 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5439 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Eurovision]


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[Animorphs]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

They're not even YA, man, they're solidly in the childrens books demographic. Which makes it doubly unsurprising that adults would find them hard to get through without a lot of nostalgia.

[(Anonymous)]

They're in the children's demographic because the "YA" category didn't exist when they were written, and they were allowed to keep that status for the reprints because of that. When Animorphs was written, the only age categories after picture books for little kids were "children" and "adult." If it were a new series published for the first time today, it would be YA.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT--the Animorphs books didn't exist when I was a kid, and the first books came out when I was a teen. Libraries and bookstores both had young adult sections by the mid-90s, and if I had to guess were probably a thing by the mid-70s.

It seems like every couple years someone comes along and says YA fiction didn't exist before Harry Potter, or Twilight, or the Hunger Games, and it definitely did. It may not have been a massive chunk of the market like it is now, but it existed.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - Hmm, you know, I very distinctly remember that they were not in the Children's section of the bookstore back in the late 90s. I think the section they were in may have been labelled "Youth," but whatever section it was, it was a separate section from "Children's."

I think it may have gone "Children's" and then "Youth" and then "Teen" or something like that, with "Youth" and "Teen" typically being on the same wall, but "Youth" would be on the left and then "Teen" would be on the right. I'm not saying this was the case in all bookstores, but it was definitely the case in the bookstores where I grew up.

That said, I think it's largely a semantic argument whether they were "children's books" or not. I find the classification of them as "youth books" very apt, as I think the connotation there paints a far more accurate picture of the material.