I don’t think there are “bad books” for children, mostly because people leave one ingredient out of the equation – which is the child… What you’re failing to realize is the kid is bringing [him or herself] to the book – which is also a failure to understand that books are collaborative. Fiction is collaborative – it’s collaboration between the person who wrote it and the person reading it… Kids improve the books they read.
On Halloween, Neil Gaiman visited the New York Public
Library dressed as a dead Charles Dickens to read from his fantastic
adaptation of the Brothers Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel and talk to the
library’s intellectual impresario, Paul Holdengräber.
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