1. Is simple and straightforward.2. Focuses on action.3. Is about childhood.4. Expresses a child’s point of view.5. Is optimistic.6. Tends toward fantasy.
7. Is a form of pastoral idyll.8. Views an un-idyllic world from the viewpoint of innocence.
9. Is didactic.
10. Tends to be repetitious.11. Tends to balance the idyllic and the didactic.