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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The hobbit 
The swan and the trumpet 
The mouse and the motorcycle 
The secret garden 
Charlie and the chocolate factory 
Junie B. Jones 
Little princess [/quote]

Uh what?  The Little Princess is SO DATED and incredibly boring.  Same with the The Secret Garden.  There is SO much excellent children's literature being written now, there's no need to read things written at the turn of the century.[/quote]

There's a lot of value in older literature. We need to maintain a connection to the past. Their errors can be corrected by our improvements in those areas, and our blind spots (and culturally we definitely have blind spots) can definitely be corrected by the past. Our culture values diversity in so many areas, but not temporal diversity. That's a shame.

That said, I really hated The Little Princess and The Secret Garden as a kid. They are both pretty trite books in my opinion. But my kids who in general read a lot of good lit love them, so OK. I tell them that those books (and other bad books) they like are kind of like cupcakes. Good for fun sometimes, but not for a steady diet.[/quote]

The Secret Garden is full of white supremacy, colonialism and bad attitudes towards people with disabilities.  I wouldn't read it to any kid these days.[/quote]

I think you read a different secret garden than i did.[/quote]

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