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I recently read "the day i swapped my dad for 2 goldfish" to a class of 3-4yr olds.
most did not understand it, although one did try to sell their dad at a car-boot sale later that week.
Has anyone else read the children's books to children?
I wouldn't dare read Wolves in the walls to a child, it scares me sometimes!


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I have read it to my child, but he wouldn't pay the least attention to it until he was about 6 1/2. Smile He's about 7 1/2 now and a few months ago I read him Coraline (over a week or so) for his bedtime story - he loved it!





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a friend of mine tried to read Coraline to a group of 9/10-yr-olds. either because there were so many of them (10 or so, which doesn't seem like a lot until you start trying to get 10 kids that age to sit down and shut up in the middle of the summer) or because of the way she had to space out the book, they never got interested.


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Actually, in my Young Adult literature class and with the librarians I worked with, they used Wolves in the Wall as a middle school alternative to appeal to reluctant readers and kids who were into the artwork.

I know there are a some kids out there who are really into the two picture books, just ask DanGuy (one of the web elves) who pops in here occasionally. If I remember correctly, his son loved them at a very young age.



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