See, I have to admit to liking those definitions... cuz it means when my Chick says "mom, what does ... mean?" I can say "keep reading dear" and it'll be there.
She's the age bracket it's written for. Deaths and unfortunate events aside, it's written for the Goosebumps crowd.
I still think that a writer of skill and talent would be able to demonstrate the definitions of those words in such a way as to let the children infer the meaning from the context of the passage. For "rickety," for example, he could have said something like, "..."...occasionally their parents gave them permission to take a rickety trolley, which rattled and shaked so much they almost would rather have walked, alone to the seashore...." Or something like that.
Any child bright enough to be reading this kind of book should be able to get a loose grasp of what the word "rickety" means in this context, which is pretty much all they need at this point since the word "rickety" is not an essential piece of vocabulary for the story.
Images I don't need for 500, Alex
anonymous
January 18 2006, 22:01:15 UTC
Thank you, kind sir, for the yogurt/Rove image. I will no go and play in oncoming traffic in the hopes it will be forever banished from my memory. -Soulman
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She's the age bracket it's written for. Deaths and unfortunate events aside, it's written for the Goosebumps crowd.
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Any child bright enough to be reading this kind of book should be able to get a loose grasp of what the word "rickety" means in this context, which is pretty much all they need at this point since the word "rickety" is not an essential piece of vocabulary for the story.
To do as he did is, in my opinion, an insult.
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