“Juvenile age” of book publishing for children: statistics, trends, perspectives

Abstract

This review provides the general statistics of books editions for children over the past 16 years (the conventional “juvenile age”) in Russia. The main trends associated with the current ideas about “actual” children’s and teenager’s book are marked as well as the most popular authors. The ideological, thematic features of abovesaid editions as well as genre ones are revealed in connection with the special attention to such works from the modern domestic publishers.