Adult readers who select the books for the children, usually connect with their selections. There’s some underlying root cause for their choice. It could be attractiveness or how the words make them feel or perhaps they think it’s on the child’s level; there are many reasons it could be. I’ve been working with preschool children for a few years and during this time period I’ve learned that though all children are at a particular stage of development, they’re definitely not all the same. Just because a child is 3 years old, it doesn’t mean that they don’t have the capacity or interest in learning about other cultures, for example. The place i’m currently working at is very different from the last preschool I worked at. Both treat children as “children,” in the sense that they’re younger than us and don’t have the experience or level of comprehension that we have, however, I believe the first place limited children. The place where i’m working at now, introduces many subject matters and allows the children to simply ask questions about vocabulary or whatever they don’t understand. In fact, it is encouraged. Many times the children know and understand a lot more than I anticipated they would. The children sometimes even teach the teachers and one another new things. The children are also allowed to use scissors and glue and many things that I didn’t think children should be allowed to handled independently at this age. They are also spoken to with respect and not as “children” who need to be ordered around. The first place I worked at, didn’t really teach the children anything beyond the basics. I think that many adults just assume that children are less intelligent, less capable and inferior to them because they,much like myself can’t really remember understanding sophisticated language or concepts at that age. I can understand the assumption that many children won’t be able to understand certain things because lack of experience but I think that this applies to adults too. Something i’m still puzzled by is how writers know how to write for specific audiences but I believe that’s a gift that can’t be taught and perhaps actually more simple than anyone would think, because it comes so naturally to them.