Dahl-lite
Just read some Anthony Horowitz short stories during library period with my 8s. They were very good! Horowitz is famous for his Alex Rider books which are James Bond for teens. These stories were Roald Dahl for teens. Same black sense of humour, good twists but again written for teens. This is a very clever strategy for Mr H. As his books are trifficly popular, hopefully his readers will start on the more adult versions of his work, when they graduate from teenhood. Though do I want people to be reading Ian Fleming? Yes, because they can learn about bridge and wine-tasting in between the sex and violence.