"Secrets" is told from the point of view of two pre-adolescent girls, Treasure and India, via their diary entries.

It has gorgeous stage paintings that draw on Darger's imagery and the universe he created in a 15,000-page fantasy novel involving pre-adolescent girls.

In her words, "My paintings are of pre-adolescent girls and boys, children on the cusp of adulthood.

These early shōjo manga almost invariably had pre-adolescent girls as both heroines and readers.

Although Molly enjoys being independent and a superhero, she is still a pre-adolescent girl who wants to have fun.

The arrival of a pre-adolescent girl, inteligible to share a boy's room, threw a spanner into the works (and probably confirmed beliefs in English eccentricity).

He said the study found surprisingly high levels of discontent with body weight and shape in pre-adolescent girls and boys.

The underlying cause must be the 'pornification' of the culture and the increasing sexualisation of pre-adolescent girls.

He focuses on just four large figures, a pre-adolescent girl and three younger children, depicting them realistically against a panoramic view of village and sky.