What is meant by 'children's literature is the stepchild of literature'?

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It means that writing children's literature is considered in literary circles to be valued but somehow less legitimate than other works of literature, probably because in a book for young children, you can write one sentence per page with a picture and have a book; and the writer of a children's book will be viewed to be somehow less of a writer than the writers of other types of books.

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