Go

New

Find

Notify

Tools

Reply

Admin

New PM!

Lord Groan Member	Posted 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! --------------------------------- insert witty signature here.
	Posts: 43 | Location: beyond good and evil | Registered: May 12, 2008

Maeve Miss Kitty Fantastico Member

Posted Hide Post I have read it to my child, but he wouldn't pay the least attention to it until he was about 6 1/2. 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! I would have thought the end of the world is everyone's responsibility, wouldn't you? ~Death in Thief of Time Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies.

Posts: 15325 | Location: under tangled yarn | Registered: August 09, 2005

Ignored post by Maeve posted Show Post

Apathy has been eaten by a grue. Member

Posted Hide Post 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. ~ Consuming Souls Like Cookies and Milk Since the 1980s ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation

Posts: 6812 | Location: the gloaming | Registered: November 29, 2007

Ignored post by Apathy posted Show Post

Weeble is irreducibly complex Member

Posted Hide Post 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. ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ Weeble Song! Sing along! ~ courtesy Snazzy Snazzypants

Posts: 9948 | Location: not entirely sure | Registered: November 04, 2006

Ignored post by Weeble posted Show Post

Previous Topic | Next Topic

powered by eve community

Reply

© YourCopy 2001

It's that time of year again, folks. Next week Saturday I'll be deleting any Private Messages that have not been responded to after 1/1/2008. Copy/paste any ones you want to keep into your word processing program of choice. Our PM count is up to 10,000, and that's just too high for us to sustain. Remember, email was invented for a reason! Try using that to correspond with your fellow Boardians! It's KEEN!