Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/categories

The categories aren't as much of a mess as they could be, but there's still no consensus on what goes in what category. Proposed tree:

Category Chart
- | Children's and Young Adult | -                |                 |     |                 |                   |                  |           |                |     |                 |                   |                  |           |                |      |                 |                   |                  |           |                |  --   --    --    --   --     |  | Children's |   | Children's |    | Children's |    | Children's |   | Children's |     | | and YA    |   | and YA     |    | and YA     |    | and YA     |   | and YA     |     | | Magazines |   | Book Awards|    | writers    |    | illustators|   | by genre   |     | --  --    --    --   --     |     |                 |                 |                |                     |          |     |                 |                 |                |                     |   articles          articles and       articles and       articles and          | |Children's|  (Cricket,         subcats if         "by nationality"   "by nationality"      | | and YA   |  etc.)             necessary          categories         categories            | |books     | |                  |         |                        |                     |          |            |         |         |                        |                     |          |            |         |         |                        |                     |          article:     |         | -       ---         "Genres"    etc.      | | Picture Books |       | Young Adult |      | Easy Readers |                         | -       ---                               |        |                          |                  |                                   |        |                          |                  |                                   |    articles:                  articles:            articles:                             | Caldecott Medal           Printz Medal         Limited Vocabulary Books             | Picture books             Problem novel                                             | |         -          |                     |                      |                       |          |                     |                      |                       |          |                     |                      |                       |      articles              --         Categories for            --- all the books      | Children's |         books with their          | Fictional   | (subdivisions?     | and YA     |         own cats (eg              | elements of | original language  | Series     |     Category:Alice in Wonderland) | C&amp;YA books  |        or country of       --                                   ---        1st pub?)              |                                               | |                                              |                            articles and categories:                    Also child of                              the series                               Category:Fictional contains child cats, also children of the relevant Fictional subcats.

Chart: Deborah-jl Talk 05:52, 18 February 2006 (UTC)