Monday, December 1, 2003

Reading Young People's Literature We're All Reading Children's Books. This Telegraph article speaks to the new phenomenon of large numbers of adults reading children's and young adult books. They offer up two theories of why adults are doing this. First is the sad theory that it is "further proof of an intellectually degraded culture in which magical quest literature is the new rock'n'roll." Yikes! But the second theory hits closer to the truth, "that some adults are rejecting the arid pastures of clever-clever, look-at-me contemporary adult fiction". I have read books for children and teens for years. I enjoy the clean writing style, the unpretentious language, and the strong narrative line.... [Kids Lit] I really like reading YA literature too. My excuse has always been that I have to read it so that I can talk to students about what they might like, but now that I'm going to be leaving my school library postion, I guess I'll have to think of another excuse. 6:48:34 AM    comment []

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