diff --git a/src/document/documentChildren.ts b/src/document/documentChildren.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3412ccd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/document/documentChildren.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import { Node } from "../node"
+import { Document } from "./Document"
+
+export function documentChildren(document: Document): Array<Node> {
+  return [
+    ...document.children,
+    ...document.footnotes.flatMap((footnote) => footnote.nodes),
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/src/document/index.ts b/src/document/index.ts
index d660205..6d5fd64 100644
--- a/src/document/index.ts
+++ b/src/document/index.ts
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 export * from "./Document"
+export * from "./documentChildren"
diff --git a/src/node/index.ts b/src/node/index.ts
index 7422773..2a34fba 100644
--- a/src/node/index.ts
+++ b/src/node/index.ts
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 export * from "./Node"
+export * from "./nodeChildren"
diff --git a/src/node/nodeChildren.ts b/src/node/nodeChildren.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..90b1145
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/node/nodeChildren.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import { Node } from "./Node"
+
+export function nodeChildren(node: Node): Array<Node> {
+  if (node.kind === "Table") {
+    return [
+      ...node.head.flatMap((nodes) => nodes),
+      ...node.body.flatMap((row) => row.flatMap((nodes) => nodes)),
+    ]
+  }
+
+  if ("children" in node) {
+    return node.children
+  }
+
+  return []
+}