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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also think it’s funny that we used to see Harry Potter as a guilty read and a bit junky, and now it’s being held up as an example of kid lit with literary merit. Whatever happened to EB White and others? I open those “children’s novels” now and am blown away by the language. When DD was 7 we tried Wind in the Willows as a read aloud. I thought I was actually too late because I thought so many used to have this read to them at preK age. Wow was I wrong. The vocab and syntax was so difficult! [/quote] I agree with you! I read tons of crap as a kid. I think I know all of the adventures of Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, and I witnessed the murder of many a teenager with Christopher Pike. But we didn’t read them for school, and no one pretended they were literature. Now my kids are reading junk at school, so they have to read literature in their free time at home. It’s backward. [/quote]
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