In this passage, I came across an experiment that Perry Nodelman had administered. He read a poem to his class and asked for their opinion. To his surprise, they said they would not share the poem with children. He asked if they enjoyed the poem and they replied with a yes. So why would they not share this enjoyable poem? According to the passage, “In thinking about the poem as a text for children, they had ignored their own responses and, instead, guessed how some hypothetical children might respond. Many adults base their judgments of children’s literature upon such guesses” (Page 1, Seeing Beyond an Adult Perspective). That made me wonder why Children’s Literature is created mostly by adults. Sure–they could definitely use their childhood experiences to imagine what a child would want to read. But, that child (who is the adult now) was born in the past. What do children want to see now? Wouldn’t it be better to actually ask children what they want to see? There are more young authors creating Children’s Literature now. I haven’t read any of their works yet, but would it be any better than the children’s books we grew up with? It’s something I’m curious about.