Kid Logic

[sartorias]

Yesterday I went up to visit some relatives, and my mom gave me a scrapbook of keepsakes. Now that she's finally retired, she's been going through old family photos and miscellaneous stuff. She's never been much of a packrat, so I was curious to see what she'd saved. A lot of it (most) had to do with ancestors, like a xerox copy of the daily

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[martianmooncrab]

the subject that engrossed me was kid logic.

yes, I find it wonderful to watch in my grand niece, you can see the wheels turning in her head at times, and how she gets to point B as it were. I try not to question her choice in books but I do ask what she likes about the book ... not tear it down by my standards. The pink covers just kill me.

[sartorias]

Heh!

It is so very hard to get away from the pink. So very hard.

[martianmooncrab]

soooo many Princess novels.....

[sartorias]

And have been for a long, long time.

[merriehaskell]

I love that dazzle and passion, when I re-discover it.

[sartorias]

Yes!

[princesselwen]

"Those who have cared greatly for any book whatever, may possibly come to care, some day, for good books." C.S. Lewis "Lilies that Fester" from The World's Last Night and Other Essays.
I read any number of books as a child that I'd describe as 'literary cotton candy.' Because sometimes I just wanted to be entertained. I still do. And cotton candy has its place--in moderation!

[sartorias]

I so agree!

[movingfinger]

Yes, those scintillating, insightful conversations that the Hardy Boys used to have! And Nancy Drew's cutting wit, how we used to laugh! My.

[sartorias]

Impressed the heck out of me in fourth grade . . .

[danceswithwaves]

I reread The Boxcar Children for a project I was working on and was surprised at what I would consider poor writing and choppy sentences. And then I went easier on the poor guy's children's book I was editing.

[bookblather]

The other thing I would bring up to that reviewer is something I think you've said before, which is that kids are young and they're reading for the first or early times and they're not familiar with these patterns. What's old hat to a reader with many more books under their belt is fresh and exciting to a kid just pulling it off the shelf. So there's that.

[sartorias]

Exactly.