Before beginning this course on Literature for Children and learning what goes into this genre, I want to take my own novice opinion as this will be the last time I approach children's books without deeper thought and appreciation. For me, reading kids books is due to curiosity from the cover or title, yes I am the almost librarian who still judges books by their covers, or from finding books to read to the children in my life. I have an ounce of proofing for age appropriateness, language, or frightening images based on my babysitting, and knowing the perfect book sometimes for a kid. For instance, my four year old nephew who shares my love of dinosaurs has developed into the boy who also loves cars and trucks. Thus DinoTrux (the combination of trucks and dinosaurs) made me not only the perfect aunt to him, but a clever sister as there's a page about the evolution of dinotrux into the trucks of today - my sister is a biologist.
(from Amazon.com)
So as I am about to learn an insider's view of children and young adult literature, I'd just like to think of this moment: when kids books were mostly entertainment. For now I am about to over-think and critique every kids book I see from now on.
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