FROM THE EDITORS

Abstract

Issue 27 of "Children's Readings" is devoted to discussion of the addressii of children's literature. The focus is on how ideas about the child reader are changing and what techniques poets and writers use to construct the childish depending on the concept of childhood or the writer's mission. Using the material of children's literature of the 19th-21st centuries, such aspects as the problematic reader's address of a folk tale, the transformation of the genre nature of a work in the context of a change in addressee, adult allusions and meanings hidden from children in works originally addressed to children are studied.