And I read VC Andrews at a thoroughly inappropriate age. The medium is irrelevant.

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Anonymous wrote:All reading is good reading.

Many adults don't read at all. Reading graphic novels would be an improvement. Let your kid read what they want.

The bolded is just not true. Reading is a (minor) factor in character formation.

I'm with the posters who compare reading diets to food diets. There are junk books and they are treats.

OP I would take the first or second response's suggestion of a read-aloud. Or just require your kid to read a relatively short non graphic novel before you provide another graphic novel. Done.

This is a fabulous way to kill your kid's love of reading.

I do that sort of thing to my kids all the time and they are avid readers. Turns out I'm pretty good at knowing what they'll like.

What books did you pick that they just loved?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All reading is good reading.

Many adults don't read at all. Reading graphic novels would be an improvement. Let your kid read what they want.

The bolded is just not true. Reading is a (minor) factor in character formation.

I'm with the posters who compare reading diets to food diets. There are junk books and they are treats.

OP I would take the first or second response's suggestion of a read-aloud. Or just require your kid to read a relatively short non graphic novel before you provide another graphic novel. Done.

This is a fabulous way to kill your kid's love of reading.

I do that sort of thing to my kids all the time and they are avid readers. Turns out I'm pretty good at knowing what they'll like.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All reading is good reading.

Many adults don't read at all. Reading graphic novels would be an improvement. Let your kid read what they want.

The bolded is just not true. Reading is a (minor) factor in character formation.

I'm with the posters who compare reading diets to food diets. There are junk books and they are treats.

OP I would take the first or second response's suggestion of a read-aloud. Or just require your kid to read a relatively short non graphic novel before you provide another graphic novel. Done.

This is a fabulous way to kill your kid's love of reading.

Let that fool read

Anonymous wrote:All reading is good reading.

Many adults don't read at all. Reading graphic novels would be an improvement. Let your kid read what they want.

The bolded is just not true. Reading is a (minor) factor in character formation.

I'm with the posters who compare reading diets to food diets. There are junk books and they are treats.

OP I would take the first or second response's suggestion of a read-aloud. Or just require your kid to read a relatively short non graphic novel before you provide another graphic novel. Done.

Graphic novels are great--but they're not everything. See what you can do to encourage reading text. The reader gains a different set of skills when they are visualizing the information in their own heads. And kids need to develop reading stamina, which I don't think graphic novels is great for.

This is not the hill I’d die on. Be happy they are reading

i got mine to try Harry Potter and he got hooked (especially when he realized his friends were reading them as well).

All reading is good reading.

Many adults don't read at all. Reading graphic novels would be an improvement. Let your kid read what they want.

I hear you, OP. My child will read all day long, but only graphic novels.

On the one hand, it's great my child loves to read so much. On the other hand, it sucks my child seems intimidated by books that don't have pictures.

We are trying to steer in the direction of books that split the difference, with fewer pictures than graphic novels (but not none) and more words. If anyone has any recommendations along those lines, I'd love to hear them.

People calling them junk food or whatever don’t know what they’re talking about. Not everything kids do in their spare time has to be “challenging”. They read books at school. They read at home for pleasure. A simple way to turn kids off of reading is to criticize their choices and push boring books on them that you think are “challenging”.

Anonymous wrote:Some of you sound like you’re 90 years old. “Why can’t they just read what we read???” The ignorance is astounding.

Look through the graphic novels and see for yourselves. Do some research before you trash what you don’t know.

Here are some recommendations-

Persepolis. A story about growing up in Iran

Mysteries of the Quantum Universe. Self explanatory.

March Trilogies. Three book series that follows the civil rights movement with John Lewis.

The Complete Maus. Graphic novel about the Holocaust .

There is every kind of book you can think of to choose from. Keep up.

Why do you assume people who want their kids to read non-graphic novels don't know that there are quality graphic novels out there? They're different types of texts that develop different skills. Being able to sit down and read a book that has descriptions and narration as opposed to primarily or exclusively dialogue is a good thing; it's a skill that should be learned. Acknowledging that isn't "trashing" Maus. They're different art forms, and wanting your kid to learn how to understand both isn't crazy. Especially if you've got a kid who is a good reader, they should be building the skills of reading beyond what it takes to read a Dog Man book.

In our house, we're clear that the graphic novels are fine, but we ask that our daughter challenge herself with other kinds of books. She's responded to that well; it's not a demand or a requirement, just encouragement. Might not work in every house, but it's worked in ours.

Anonymous wrote:Don’t bother. My dad thought I was going to hardboard because I was reading middle school series by age 8. However I just had adhd and was hyper focused on them and read them (and similar books) over and over as a grew up.

At least your kid loves reading! I wouldn’t push too much.

Harvard, not hardboard.

Don’t bother. My dad thought I was going to hardboard because I was reading middle school series by age 8. However I just had adhd and was hyper focused on them and read them (and similar books) over and over as a grew up.

At least your kid loves reading! I wouldn’t push too much.