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Discussion: Can we add Middle Grade to the genres? Tem2 18:50, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely! I wonder if that's a US-specific designation, or if other English-speaking countries use it as well. Deborah-jl _Talk 20:57, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say, from the UK point of view, that it's not used here, though might well be understood, if vaguely --Abbeybufo 14:47, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Children's literature is parent of all subcats and contains all articles that don't belong elsewhere.

Category:British children's writers (which has English and Scottish subcats right now) and Category:American children's writers should be subcats of Category:Children's writers. An item should never be in a cat and a parent cat simultaneously, right?

We should CfD Category:British children's literature. Individual books and writers can be British, but children's literature as a whole is not. An article British children's literature might make sense, if it's discussing national specifics of the genre.

Should there be any Young adult literature categories? Some proposed articles, such as Problem novels, would certainly belong in Category:Young adult literature, but I don't think we need to recreate the entire books and writers trees as Category:Young adult books and Category:Young adult writers. It makes sense to leave those under Category:Children's books and Category:Children's writers, no? Right now the Category:Young adult literature contains mostly author and book pages that should probably be recategorized, and, as a sign of how difficult it would be to have separate trees, some, such as Eragon, are published as children's, not YA.

Should we have Category:Children's literature awards, and if so, should it be subdivided nationally? (And, again, do young adult awards come under these cats? I think they should.) We have at least two awards each listed for the US and the UK.

We need Category:Children's literature series

Deborah-jl _Talk 07:13, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Doh! And of course poetry needs to be on this chart, and graphic novels. Discussions of course come under genre, but do poets come under writers, graphic novelists under writers and/or illustrators depending on whether they write or draw? Graphic novels and poetry collections under books; what about individual poems and, for that matter, short stories? Two child cats under Category:Children's and young adult literature? Deborah-jl _Talk 05:56, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to join this conversation so late, but have only recently got into wiki - can do article on Children's Book Awards if required, having written book on them which lists over 60 worldwide awards for English-language books - could upload a list of these fairly easily (and soon!) if required, and try and wikify it later as I know there are articles on the main US and UK awards to link to...does this need to be a category, and article or a list - or more than one thereof? Think the chart looks good, with the extras as you mention above --Abbeybufo 14:47, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]