Re: What Every Child Should Read
- From: cgoodin@xxxxxx (Chuk Goodin)
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:49:14 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:04:00 GMT, Sea Wasp
<seawaspobvious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I remember reading an article that someone wrote about her kids
response to _Little House in the Big Woods_ (iirc, it was one of the
Little House books for sure). It's Christmas time, and Laura is
getting her presents out of her stocking: a pair of red mittens her
mother knit, an orange, a stick of peppermint, and I think a rag doll
that her parents made. Laura is delighted to have so many nice
things, and happy because she knows the effort her parents put into
getting the gifts. Her kid's response? "What a lame Christmas!" and
"That's _all_ she got? Where's the rest of the stuff?"
Yes. But that kind of response allows me to talk about WHY it was, in
fact, a marvelous Christmas. It's helped me get across to my kids just
HOW different things were, to give them a sense of change-over-time.
My daughter's response was just, "Wow, that's a lot different than our
Christmases."
Something I didn't notice while first reading the Little House books as a
kid but did pick up this time through is that they're all written to
different age levels. The early books seem like they're for earlier
readers, on up to the ones reflecting Laura's teenage years being closer
to modern YA stuff.
--
chuk
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