《大英百科全书·儿童文学》条目说,判断一个国家、一个地区儿童文学是否成熟有许多标准,其最后一个重要标准是看它是否有一支专业的儿童文学理论队伍。以此为标准,当下中国儿童文学是属于较为成熟的行列的:它不仅有一支儿童文学理论队伍,队伍中还有一些很成熟的学者,方卫平便是这队伍中较突出的一位。 Entries in the Encyclopedia Britannica said that there are many criteria for judging the maturity of children’s literature in a country or a region. The last important criterion is whether or not it has a professional pedagogy of children’s literature. As a standard, contemporary Chinese children’s literature belongs to the more mature ranks: it not only has a theory team of children’s literature, there are still some mature scholars in the ranks, and Fang Weiping is one of the outstanding ones in this contingent.