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Drawing on a corpus of online reviews, my article carries out a qualitative study of readers' responses to the child narrators of two contemporary novels, Mark Haddon's  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time  (2003) and Emma Donoghue's  Room  (2010). What these narrators have in common is that they are both are affected by developmental disorders: Christopher, the protagonist of  The Curious Incident , is on the autistic spectrum, whereas Jack – the five-year-old narrator of  Room  – was born and brought up in captivity. Through my analysis of the reviews I explore the interplay of defamiliarization and empathy in readers' engagement with these “strange” narrators; I also show how empathetic perspective-taking can work in tandem with sympathy (feeling for a character from an observer position).

Two child narrators: Defamiliarization, empathy, and reader-response in Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident and Emma Donoghue's Room