Annotation of achieved result: Results of the research focusing on analysis of literary forms of child and childhood in artistic prose which does not belong in the children’s literature are collected into partial inland and foreign published issues as well as into 2 independent publications. In scientific proceedings Obraz dieťaťa a detstva v textoch umeleckej literatúry the research group was extended with colleagues invited from inland, Polish and Czech academical institutions. Extensive author’s formation (20) leads not only to multiple points of view on the issue examined, but to its more differentiated and stimulating scientific discussion as well. Monography Deti zvedené, deti predurčené can be considered unique and fundamental, at least in the sense that texts from the era of older Slovak literature, in which the phenomenon of childhood appears, have not been reflected on this level yet – considering system and range of research extension, methodologic-terminological thoroughness of literary-historical and theoretical elaboration.