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Publishers frame “appropriate” through historically established industry standards, while educators apply development theories to define “developmentally appropriate” pedagogy that can restrict children’s literacy experiences. 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Three competing interest areas—publishing, education, and societal ideologies—provide insight as to how “appropriate” developed into an abstract cover-word for a variety of outside agendas. One usage stems from publishers, authors, and editors who privilege books that adhere to historically established industry standards, such as rhyming text and anthropomorphism. Educators, however, utilize theories of development to establish “developmentally appropriate” pedagogy which, as a result, has the potential to limit the literacy experiences of children. Finally, gatekeepers and moderators—a group which may include parents, caregivers, or special interest groups—use “appropriate” to signal books that correspond to those adult’s ideologies and effectively protect children from what they define as disagreeable content. Ultimately, “appropriate” indicates books, ideologies, and materials that correspond to what adults from a variety of different—and often contradictory—fields assume children “need” to develop into proper citizens of their society.  \nKeywords: appropriate, child development, publishing, morality  \nKathleen Wallace is a second- year M.A. student in the English department at Kansas State University with a concentration in children’s literature. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies [and an A.S. degree](and an A.S. degree) in Early Childhood Education. Her current research examines differing levels of agency in interactive picture books. Other research interests include picture book adaptation, child rights and advocacy, and illustration aesthetics.  \nOne of the earliest uses the Oxford English Dictionary (OED, 2011) provides for\"appropriate\", as an adjective, is “specially fitted or suitable, proper,” citing a 1544 book by Thomas Phaer: “remedyes . . . appropriate to euery membre throughout the bodye.” Over the following three centuries, the word implied that certain controlled content was proper at distinct stages of its life. In A Sequel to Common Sense, John Lay (under the pseudonym Theophilus Philadelphus) wrote,“our children run through the progressive stages… and demand attentions from their parents applicable and appropriate . . .” (Philadelphus, 1777, p. 42) . \"Appropriate\"continued to define what children supposedly “needed” at specific stages of their lives, although the specific characteristics of these needs changed alongside concepts of childhood.  \nIn the field of children’s literature, the word appropriate typically appears in three different contexts. The first belongs to authors and publishers who use appropriate to indicate what aspects of form make books “for children.” The second is in the purview of educators who utilize theories of development and scientific data to define what qualifies as “developmentally appropriate.” The third relies on the imagined effect that the content of a work might have on a child’s character in order to determine what is suitable. These varied definitions call attention to the lack of a cohesive and universal definition for appropriate children’s literature.  \nThe discussion around what is appropriate for children begins with the image of children as vulnerable and innocent, inspired by philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke in the late seventeenth century (Miller, 2014) . Locke’s influence, especially, permeates the content of eighteenth century American and British texts. For example, Sarah Fielding’s The Governess (1749), used didactic yet enjoyable “attempt[s] to gain the child’s affection for modes of authority”(Weikle-Mills, 2008, p. 45) to manipulate white, Christian children into accepting the power of adults. As a result, the philosophies of Locke and Rousseau served as catalysts for a shift in what was considered a","cbCaiiBW206rSMDb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiBW206rSMDb","pdf",249991,"English","# Abstract\n## Researcher Background and Scope\n## Historical Meanings in Dictionaries and Texts\n## Three Contexts in Children’s Literature\n## Images of Childhood and Influential Philosophers\n## Publishing Standards and Commercial Influences\n## Challenges to Traditional Ideas of Appropriateness","[{\"question\":\"What are the three main disciplines discussed in how “appropriate” is used for children’s literature?\",\"answer\":\"The text highlights publishing, education, and societal ideologies. 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