I can't remember ever thinking it was the right approach. And when you were a "YA", wouldn't you have thought it was a pretty annoying idea?
Maybe we're an unusual audience, but I really don't think so: I've often found YA-targeted books to be more interesting and challenging than many mainstream books, and I wonder if there's not a reason for that. [waits for comeback...] I don't know if that's a rule or not, but my personal opinion is that books for kids should be fairly challenging. First, how else do you encourage them to grow? (As though most could be dis-couraged.) Second, especially in adolescence kids will often have contempt for something that they see as talking down to them. (Arguably, rightly so.) On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Alicia Henn <[email protected]> wrote: > Heinlein and Asimov as children's SF? She said something interesting there. > It WAS what was available to kids (like me) then, but was it really for > children? > > It makes me wonder if aiming SF at kids by making it more cartoonish or > making it easier to understand is the wrong approach. > > Alicia > > > On Aug 14, 2010, at 9:29 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > >> http://bigthink.com/series/36?selected=20440#player (streaming video) >> >> >> Frank >> >> Check out my web page at: http://delphinus100.angelfire.com/link3.htm >> >> "Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist >> invents the airplane and the pessimist, the parachute." >> - G.B. Stern >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! >> http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
