Re: fantasy without magic?


Brian M. Scott wrote:
> On 16 Aug 2005 11:10:13 -0700, Constantinople
> <constantinopoli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> in rec.arts.sf.composition:
>
> > Brian M. Scott wrote:
>
> >> On 15 Aug 2005 23:37:57 -0700, Constantinople
> >> <constantinopoli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> >> in rec.arts.sf.composition:
>
> [...]
>
> >>> I have been thinking about kids who are just ready for Charlotte's Web
> >>> but not ready yet for something more adult than Charlotte's Web.
>
> >> I simply don't remember ever being in that position.
>
> > Maybe you're talking about Charlotte's Web, per se.
>
> No.
>
> > If
> > you're really disagreeing with my point you're arguing
> > that children go from not reading at all, to enjoying
> > Agatha Christie, instantaneously. with nothing coming in
> > between those books with the thick cardboard pages and
> > Miss Marple.
>
> That's a bit of an exaggeration, but I am indeed saying
> quite a few kids go directly, or nearly so, from being read
> to, to reading material found on YA and adult shelves. I
> see that Lucy has made the same observation.

I might meet you somewhere in the middle, but if there were not, in
addition to these "quite a fiew" who jump, a substantial number who *do
not* jump, then I would not be seeing the sizable kids' sections that I
see in bookstores, with their evident gradation in terms of length,
difficulty, and subject matter. And since I was trying to explain a
phenomenon about the market of books, the existence of this sizable
class of in-between readers is pertinent; in fact, to the extent that
the kids you mention jump directly to adult books, they simply are not
relevant to the market of kids' books. That's not denying that there
isn't also a number of people who really or approximately jump from
near-illiteracy to adult literacy.

.

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