Quiz: Can you tell when authors are writing for children?

As writers such as James Joyce, Jeanette Winterson and Salman Rushdie show, you're never too big to write for children. But what happens to prose style when they get down with the kids? See if you can tell whether these extracts are aimed at younger readers, or intended for grownups

The writer James Joyce

What'll it be today? Modernist classic or ditty for the grandchildren? ... James Joyce. Photograph: Roger Viollet

  1. 1. James Joyce

  2. 2. Jeanette Winterson
    "My mother got up early on Sundays and allowed no one into the parlour until ten o'clock. It was her place of prayer and meditation."

  3. 3. "Jo Nesbø
    "There it shone on the old cannons that were aimed out over the Oslo Fjord, through the window into the Commandant's office, and onto the most remote of all the doors."

  4. 4. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    "I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor."

  5. 5. Neil Gaiman
    "I heard nothing. I smelled bread-baking and wax furniture polish and old wood. My eyes were slow to adjust to the darkness: I peered into it, was getting ready to turn and leave when an elderly woman came out of the dim hallway holding a white duster."

  6. 6. Aldous Huxley
    "This had gone on for a long time when, one day, Mrs Crow came home earlier than usual and caught Mr Snake in the act of swallowing her latest egg."

  7. 7. Salman Rushdie
    "To reveal the secret of my grandfather's altered vision: he had spent five years, five springs, away from home."

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