Stewart

Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code, and The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time all did quite well at appealing to adults (even beyond 30!) despite being for twelve year olds. (And yes, The Da Vinci Code belongs in the juvenile category.)

But I know what you mean.

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SilkFX

I tried to do this with a story (write from a young child's perspective) and I got the same reaction in my workshop.

Check out Ellen Foster, by Kaye Gibbons, for a good example of child narration. The narrator is very precocious, which is a quality that makes for interesting fiction of this type (or so went the workshop wisdom).

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