Kid Lit Critikers

Kid 1: What do you call a kid who critiques literature?
Kid 2: You mean like us?
Kid 1: Yes.
Kid 2: Um, Kid Critics?
Kid 1: Mmm, no, it sounds too critical. I don’t want us to put such a negative spin on our title… I mean this is going to be our title for keeps. We gotta make sure it’s catchy, and it has to be pretty neutral. We have to sound credible if people are going to take us seriously.
Kid 2: But we’re kids. No one takes us seriously until one of us gets hurt.
Kid 1: How about Kid Critikers?
Kid 2: Yuck! I can visualize the term in writing and the aesthetics are terrible.
Kid 1: True.
Kid 2: How about Kid Critters?
Kid 1: Naw, then we sound like a genetic hybrid mutant that is half kid, half rodent or something.
Kid 2: True.
Kid 1: See if we weren’t talking about ourselves it would be so much easier.
Kid 2: You mean because of the added ego telling us to be careful what we call ourselves because it just might come true?
Kid 1: Yes.
Pause
Kid 3: Why do we have to call ourselves anything? We have always talked about kid lit, and we always will discuss it together. We never had a stupid title before and we got along fine. We know who we are. Isn’t that enough? I don’t want a stupid title just so that other people can have a short way to refer to our entire identities. For that matter, it’s kind of silly that we even have names in the first place.
Kid 1: True.
Kid 2: True.