tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248707.post6190886728794668717..comments2023-08-14T16:35:49.756+01:00Comments on Cruella-blog: Potter-headsCruellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03446805038957924958noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8248707.post-4909259138335769132007-07-21T23:16:00.000+01:002007-07-21T23:16:00.000+01:00Adults read children's books for the same reasons ...Adults read children's books for the same reasons they read adult books--many of them are very good books, and deserve to be read. My own initiation as an adult was reading to my children every night. Not just when they were little, but when they were older too. And I've gone back and read some of them, and the good ones remain good. But they get labeled "children's books", so adults generally aren't smart enough to read them. Harry Potter isn't necessarily great literature, but it is great storytelling, as good as, say, Kipling. Not reading Rowling, or Tove Jansson or Natalie Babbitt or EL Koenigsburg or Susan Cooper any of dozens of other authors, because they write "children's books" just means that you're willing to accept the boundaries that other people assign to the world. Lose those chains!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com