Anonymous wrote:PP- These books are great and very relevant. I am a teacher and am amazed at how many references to all kinds of things exist in text that kids know nothing about. Just the idioms alone are enough to confuse even native English speakers (I teach ESOL). My son was reading a book that references The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. His teacher emailed me about something else and wrote that he was the only child to know that story. He had read one of those abridged classic versions of it.
In my secular high school we read most of the old and new testament in English class for this very reason. The school believed that so much of English literature was based or referenced the bible, it was among the first things we should know. They were right.
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