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In fact, there are SIX different age categories of children’s books that span across ages 0-18. Which one you choose will depend on the story topic and target reader you’ve chosen to write for. So make sure you know this before we get started.
- Picture Books (PBs) Age: 0-5. Word Count: Less than 300 for babies. Max 500 words for toddlers. Max 1000 words for preschoolers. Sub-categories: PBs go from image only board books all the way up to full stories with significant illustrations.
- Early Readers. Age: 5-7. A step up from picture books, these are for kids who have just started reading by themselves. They are short books, usually with a lot of illustrations.
- Chapter Books. A.k.a. Young Readers. Age: 6-9. Stories divided into chapters. Word Count: Less than 10,000.
- Middle Grade (MG) Age: 9-12. Word Count: When I started writing three years ago, the MG word count I kept hearing was no more than 30,000 words. Now I’m seeing a lot more MG books with up to 60,000 words, so I think the water has become a bit murky here.
Jul 6, 2017 · Here I’ve defined those age related children’s book categories, and talk about the differences in writing for various age levels. To make a lot of information simpler to track, I divided each age level into six areas: Length —by and large, the younger the audience, the shorter their attention span.
- Picture books. Picture books are targeted at children ages 2 to 8. They primarily use illustrations to tell the story and often share life lessons related to emotional intelligence (empathy, forgiveness, kindness), relationships, social connections, and morals.
- Chapter books. Chapter books are for children ages 7 to 9 and they are 4,000-15,000 words in length. These books have more content and more complex language than the children may have seen before.
- Easy Reader. Easy Reader books, also called Emerging Reader or Beginning Reader books, are for children who are just learning to read by themselves, usually from five to nine years old.
- Juvenile books. Juvenile books can be fiction or nonfiction. These books speak to the emotions and intellect of the reader. They are written on subjects that are very relevant to the reader’s life and that capture the attention of children a little older and younger than the target age.
- Early Readers (5-8 Years Old) Children in this age range are just starting to read on their own. These books focus more on words and less on illustrations.
- Chapter Books (6-10 Years Old) Chapter books are for children who have learned how to read on their own and are looking for a more challenging read but are not quite ready to dive into a full novel.
- Middle Grade Fiction (8-14 Years Old) Next up is Middle Grade Fiction. These children have moved on to chapter books like the Harry Potter or Percy Jackson books.
- Young Adult/YA (12+ Years Old) Finally, there’s Young Adult novels. These books are on the fence between children’s books and adult novels. Some examples of popular YA novels include The Hunger Games series and The Maze Runner books.
Feb 19, 2020 · The different age groups and types of books for each. Here’s a quick list of age groups and the different kinds of books for them: Newborn to age 4: Picture books in the form of b oard and soft books; Ages 2–5: Early picture books; Ages 5–8: Picture books, coloring, activity and novelty books; Ages 4–8: Early (easy) readers
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Jan 8, 2021 · Children’s book categories are much more than that. Picture books or board books are aimed at children from ages 0 to 5. Early readers (ages 5 to 7) progress onto books with short amounts of text on each page.
