Over the summer my eleven-year-old daughter read a contemporary piece of young adult “literature.” This is not a genre I enjoy, but I read the work with her so that we could discuss it together. “Was it a good book?” I asked. “Yes!” she answered. “Why?” I followed up. “Because I liked it.” As I […]
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“Kids can smell morals. And they smell like Brussels sprouts.” That line summarizes, more pithily than most, the general attitude towards “preachy children’s books” reflected in a cursory Google search. It comes from an article by a published author giving tips for writing children’s books, and most articles of that sort seem to include, fairly
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