cohesion is an indispensable linguistic feature in discourse analysis. lexicald such a differe cohesion and conjunction in particular as two crucial elements to textual cohesion and comprehension has been the focus of a wide range of studies up to now. yet the relationship between the open register and cohesive devices has not been thoroughly investigated in discourse studies. this study concentrates on the potential similarities and differences between literature for children and adult level (regular) with respect to the frequency of lexical cohesive markers and conjunctions. to this end, selected excerpts of two contemporary famous novels (danny the champion of the world by roald dahl as a representative of the children literature and coming up for air by george orwell as the representative of regular) were analyzed and codified with regard to the use of different kinds of lexical cohesion (reiteration and collocation), conjunctions (elaboration, extension and enhancement) and their subcategories. the results of chi square tests showed that the child and regular novel texts were significantly different in terms of reiteration and collocation as the main categories of lexical cohesion as well as total frequency of lexical cohesive pairs. significant difference between two corpora in the case of lexical cohesion subtypes was related to simple repetition and elaborative collocation. as to the use of conjunctions, elaboration and extension showed significant difference. yet, the difference was non-significant for enhancement. among subcategories of conjunction, additive, clarificative, concessive and variative revealence in child novel and regular novel. the findings of this study can be helpful and inspiring in discourse studies, child language studies and english teaching and learning.