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Everyone posted:Read the rules. Comprehend them. Then stop doing stuff that gets you banned. It's really not that hard. i made some bad posts in this forum a decade ago, it's a joke. regardless, here is some effort in this good thread. as a canadian https://robertmunsch.com/ has been a part of my life as long as i can remember. his stories were smart, funny, irreverent and vital to my childhood development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_You_Forever is one of the most heartbreaking masterpieces ever. if you have a mother, are a mother, or have a beating heart this story will destroy you emotionally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paper_Bag_Princess completely neutralized any weird princess saving toxic masculinity that the legend of zelda and culture were building in my head. We Share EVERYTHING! doesn't have a wiki page but it's one of the reasons i rejected capitalism as a child. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jacques and his redwall books dominated a large portion of my adolescence. if you are not aware of them, it's a weird middle fantasy series about mice and squirrels and moles and badgers living in a medieval society or something? lotsa food description, and i used to read the mole dialouge aloud on the bus to make my friends laugh. lastly, this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ear,_the_Eye_and_the_Arm is one of the best of my childhood, and this thread makes me want to dig it out and re read it for the 30th time. it's set in a futuristic pan africa and there are 3 mutants who are detectives. one has longer arms then normal and is tall and flexible, one has big ol mega eyes, and one has super hearing. a couple kids escape a coup and like, traverse africa while their folk hire the mutants to find them. it's so loving good. also i read anthem by ayn rand as a 12 year old and was like "lol no" but then i read dune and was like "lol yes"
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Nov 10, 2019 19:45
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Bandiet posted:One of the worst books ever conceived. Even as a small child I knew it was abhorrent. The mom goes to her adult son's house in the middle of the night with a ladder and breaks into his room through the window so she can cradle him and sing to him. i love you, forever. i'll love you, for always. as long as i'm living my baby you'll be.
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Nov 10, 2019 20:58
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Nov 10, 2019 23:50
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cda posted:Another thing: I wonder who this book is for. Does it speak to kids? I guess the mom cradling the adult son is probably pretty funny to a child and also reassuring at the same time. Maybe they enjoy the reversal of the son rocking the mom as well. But one of the things I've noticed about a lot of bestselling children's books is that they've crossed over into being associated with certain adult rites of passage. No college graduate is sitting there going, "gee, I really hope someone gets me a copy of Oh, The Places You'll Go!" but I bet spring is when that book makes the most sales by far. And when people become parents, they often end up with a copy of Goodnight Moon or The Little Engine That Could or The Runaway Bunny and maybe if they're Canadian, this one. The goal is to reflect something about the adult's new relationship to childhood, not necessarily to give them something to read to children. And then there's Go The F*** To Sleep. this book, specifically of roberts oeuvre, is one to be read to a baby to settle it. it's a meditative poem to be sung to an unhappy baby, or to soothe it to sleep. i definitely remember being old enough to read on my own and finding this book with my younger siblings "baby books" and it moved something deep within me. my mother holding all 3 of her children, a baby, a toddler, and me, a small boy, and read it to us is a memory that will never fade unless something really bad happens to my brain. this idea of a lineage of books, with grandparents reading a story to your parents who read it to you who now will read it to your progeny is kind of fascinating, especially because the "baby books" are only given to those who actually have a baby. there are books, like lord of the rings, that my father read as a boy, and were read to me when i was a boy, and which i read myself later. besides religious texts baby books/fairy tales/moother goose/aesops fables style stuff may be the most consistently shared and consumed form of literature, which is uh, weird? hunh.
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Nov 11, 2019 13:26
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cda posted:Generally speaking, books that survive are books that manage to embed themselves in cultural or actual institutions of some kind, to the point that they become seen as an integral part of that institution. The Bible is of course an obvious example: the only reason most people still read it is because it's part of religious institutions that actively promote reading it. That's true for a lot of books that people pretty much only read in elementary or high school as well. Children's literature as a whole happens to demonstrate this very clearly at the present time because public schooling is one of the only really universal* institutions we still have, and literacy is a direct part of the mission of those schools, so the institutional bond is very strong. But the bond is also strong with "institutions" which are just social in nature, such as parenting: from even before the baby is born, there are books which are considered part of parenting as an institution. Some of them, like What to Expect When You're Expecting or Dr. Spock, are not children's books, but a whole heck of a lot of them are. These books are not, strictly speaking, canonical, in the sense that they are not necessarily great literature or seen as great literature. Instead they're talismans. They provide an object, a text, into which powerful emotions are cathected. so i am a weird dude rite, and as such, i place a lotta importance in the power of belief. i own so many "totemic" items it's not even funny. i wear my grandfathers shirts, my great grandfathers jacket, my fathers pants. there is power to lineage, and this power, when concentrated and codified is extremely powerful. the lord of the rings shaped my fathers mind. his mind shaped my world, and i read the book that helped shape the mind that shaped my world, and then grew, and shaped my own world, doubly influenced by text.
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Nov 12, 2019 19:04
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HappyKitty posted:Weird, somebody just requested that article from me on ResearchGate like, a few days ago! i need to think about this post. also tho i think that the idea that he wrote it as like a gnostic response to the christian mythos of the chronicles of narnia is a thing. i haven't read that series since i was a teenager, but i remember that being a thing. also, the alien dudes in the amber spyglass who evolved to use wheels to traverse their environment is so loving cool. animorphs had a similar alien species that had developed biowheels for locomotion but it was a lot clumsier there, but i haven't read animoprhs since before i was a teenager.
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Nov 15, 2019 15:22
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Shibawanko posted:Why is every thread in this forum about children's genre fiction? Why does every book literally have to have a caterpillar? real life has caterpillars okay
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Nov 20, 2019 20:24
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