Do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is a route to other books you may prefer. And not everyone has the same taste as you.
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian "improving" literature. You'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.
| Unshelved | by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum |
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
He makes some very excellent points
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming--A lecture explaining why using our imaginations, and providing for others to use theirs, is an obligation for all citizens
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