/lit/ - Literature

>Children’s fiction is impossible, not in the sense that it cannot be written (that would be nonsense), but in that it hangs on an impossibility, one which it rarely ventures to speak. This is the impossible relation between adult and child […] Children’s fiction sets up a world in which the adult comes first (author, maker, giver) and the child comes after (reader, product, receiver), but where neither of them enter the space in between
>(Jacqueline Rose).

Explore Rose’s statement. Do you agree? How does the relationship between the adult writer and the child reader play out in children’s literature?