diff --git a/src/amp-react-carousel-hooks.js b/src/amp-react-carousel-hooks.js
index 3415edb..8a7e6a0 100644
--- a/src/amp-react-carousel-hooks.js
+++ b/src/amp-react-carousel-hooks.js
@@ -169,8 +169,14 @@ const AmpReactCarouselHooks = ReactCompatibleBaseElement(AmpCarouselHooks, {
     },
   },
   children: {
-    'arrowNext': '[arrow-next]',
-    'arrowPrev': '[arrow-prev]',
+    'arrowNext': {
+      selector: '[arrow-next]',
+      props: {retarget: true},
+    },
+    'arrowPrev': {
+      selector: '[arrow-prev]',
+      props: {retarget: true},
+    },
     'children': '*',
   },
 });
diff --git a/src/amp-react-carousel.js b/src/amp-react-carousel.js
index edf7bd1..9400a0a 100644
--- a/src/amp-react-carousel.js
+++ b/src/amp-react-carousel.js
@@ -217,8 +217,14 @@ const AmpReactCarousel = ReactCompatibleBaseElement(AmpCarousel, {
     },
   },
   children: {
-    'arrowNext': '[arrow-next]',
-    'arrowPrev': '[arrow-prev]',
+    'arrowNext': {
+      selector: '[arrow-next]',
+      props: {retarget: true},
+    },
+    'arrowPrev': {
+      selector: '[arrow-prev]',
+      props: {retarget: true},
+    },
     'children': '*',
   },
 });
diff --git a/src/react-compat-base-element.js b/src/react-compat-base-element.js
index 11280d8..45939b0 100644
--- a/src/react-compat-base-element.js
+++ b/src/react-compat-base-element.js
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 import AmpElementFactory from './amp-element.js';
 import devAssert from './dev-assert.js';
 
+const {
+  useEffect,
+  useRef,
+} = React;
+
 /**
  * ReactCompatibleBaseElement is a compatibility wrapper around AMP's
  * BaseElement. It takes a Component to compose, and calls renders the
@@ -486,8 +491,12 @@ function collectProps(element, opts) {
         (props[match] || (props[match] = []));
       const slot = `i-amphtml-${match}-${list.length}`;
       childElement.setAttribute('slot', slot);
-      const child = React.createElement('slot', {name: slot});
-      list.push(child);
+      const def = opts.children[match];
+      const slotProps = Object.assign(
+        {name: slot},
+        typeof def == 'object' && def.props || {}
+      );
+      list.push(React.createElement(Slot, slotProps));
     }
     props.children = children;
   }
@@ -509,8 +518,9 @@ function matchChild(element, defs) {
   }
   // TBD: a little slow to do this repeatedly.
   for (const match in defs) {
-    const expr = defs[match];
-    if (element.matches(expr)) {
+    const def = defs[match];
+    const selector = typeof def == 'string' ? def : def.selector;
+    if (element.matches(selector)) {
       return match;
     }
   }
@@ -540,3 +550,54 @@ function toUpperCase(_match, character) {
 function dashToCamelCase(name) {
   return name.replace(/-([a-z])/g, toUpperCase);
 }
+
+function Slot(props) {
+  const ref = useRef();
+  const slotProps = Object.assign({}, props, {ref});
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const slot = ref.current;
+
+    // Retarget slots and content.
+    if (props.retarget) {
+      // TBD: retargetting here is for:
+      // 1. `disabled` doesn't apply inside subtrees. This makes it more like
+      //    `hidden`. Similarly do other attributes.
+      // 2. Re-propagate click events to slots since React stops propagation.
+      //    See https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/9242.
+      slot.assignedNodes().forEach(node => {
+        // Basic attributes:
+        const { attributes } = slot;
+        for (let i = 0, l = attributes.length; i < l; i++) {
+          const { name, value } = attributes[i];
+          if (name == 'name') {
+            // This is the slot's name.
+          } else if (!node.hasAttribute(name)) {
+            // TBD: this means that attributes can be rendered only once?
+            // TBD: what do we do with style and class?
+            node.setAttribute(name, value);
+          }
+        }
+        // Boolean attributes:
+        node.disabled = slot.hasAttribute('disabled');
+        node.hidden = slot.hasAttribute('hidden');
+        if (!node['i-amphtml-event-distr']) {
+          node['i-amphtml-event-distr'] = true;
+          node.addEventListener('click', e => {
+            // Stop propagation on the original event to avoid deliving this
+            // event twice with frameworks that correctly work with composed
+            // boundaries.
+            e.stopPropagation();
+            e.preventDefault();
+            const event = new Event('click', {
+              bubbles: true,
+              cancelable: true,
+              composed: false,
+            });
+            slot.dispatchEvent(event);
+          });
+        }
+      });
+    }
+  });
+  return React.createElement('slot', slotProps);
+}