Forwarding this to my writers’ group! We have several children’s-book writers (including me!) and this is a very interesting take on it. Especially since some of us are also writing New Adult/Young Adult fiction.
When I was in elementary school I challenged myself by reading YA and some adult books. Now that I'm an adult I'm reading the children's books I passed up as a kid. My brain is already packed with too many real life complications. The children's books are refreshingly simple and easy to follow. My favorite is The Phantom Tollbooth.
We are opposite on this one. I don't want to read sanitized, unrealistic bullshit, I want stories that are real.
It's important for YA books to feature sex, drugs, and violence, because more and more, teens are struggling through these things and need hope.
I don't want to waste my time reading stories by people who obviously haven't had much bad happen to them in life because all the write about is unicorns and rainbows. What the fuck am I supposed to do with that?
Your take is both fascinating and bewildering to me. It's not wrong, but at the same time I don't understand it whatsoever.
The memory of the lost beings (Jordi Sierra I Fabra) and all the Narnia books.
Forwarding this to my writers’ group! We have several children’s-book writers (including me!) and this is a very interesting take on it. Especially since some of us are also writing New Adult/Young Adult fiction.
Yo, if y'all want more thoughts, tell me! I have a wealth of insight!
When I was in elementary school I challenged myself by reading YA and some adult books. Now that I'm an adult I'm reading the children's books I passed up as a kid. My brain is already packed with too many real life complications. The children's books are refreshingly simple and easy to follow. My favorite is The Phantom Tollbooth.
And "Little House on the Prairie" always made me want to vomit. Haha.
We are opposite on this one. I don't want to read sanitized, unrealistic bullshit, I want stories that are real.
It's important for YA books to feature sex, drugs, and violence, because more and more, teens are struggling through these things and need hope.
I don't want to waste my time reading stories by people who obviously haven't had much bad happen to them in life because all the write about is unicorns and rainbows. What the fuck am I supposed to do with that?
Your take is both fascinating and bewildering to me. It's not wrong, but at the same time I don't understand it whatsoever.