Stumbled across this thread at 5:30 am and it's taken me til this point to read it all (school morning interruptions) but it is about my all time favorite book. I've read it probably 15 times and each time I find a new or different layer of meaning. I'm also a book geek and have this book in original very tattered/taped together paperback, newer paperback, special anniversary hardback version lol!
This times a thousand. Sure way to get a kid to read- tell them it's banned. I think my entire 6th grade class read "Forever" by Judy Blume - even the boys and those who weren't big readers lol!
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My bookshelves are crammed with "banned books", and I often read whatever my kids read (I like the Percy Jackson series as much as they do)
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But just goes to show how individual tastes are (but not liking Orient express???
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Perfectly said.
But I'm the parent that has bookshelves full of every kind of book, read the kids books too especially if they are enthused about a book, and arrange m personal books by how well I like them, whether it was well written etc (my husband almost found himself out on the street a couple years ago by being "helpful" and putting authors and series back together
. The kids were all outside when I got home that day and told me "we tried to stop him
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I also think it's valuable to have set reading lists (and yes- freshen the list regularly) as it forces the kids to experience a book they might not have chosen otherwise. Turns out my son loves historical non fiction and autobiographies!
I'm also not a snob about genre- my son loves loves the Amulet series- one of the few books he retreads regularly.