A study designed to examine the variation that occurs in the request production of children between the ages of 6 and 7 observed the kind of requests children make, what they request, whom they ask, and how they formulate their ideas. Twenty native French-speaking children divided into two age groups (6- and 7-year-olds) were asked to complete two character comic strip stories in which the hero made a request to either a friend or an enemy. Requests were for either action or for information. In both age groups, children used direct form and embedded imperatives more often when the hero addressed a friend. The hero employed hints more frequently when he addressed the enemy. The 6-year olds produced more indirect utterances than did the 7-year-olds; however, the 7-year-olds evidenced a clear ability to produce a variety of reformulations. The report discusses the children's ability to link the linguistic form of request to the social features of production situation. (DJD)