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From: Canzom at aol.com <Canzom>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 13:57:54 EDT
No one has yet mentioned the Lemony Snicket books. I think they are very funny, as do many of my students. If you describe the basic premise of the books (three children are orphaned in the first chapter then terrorized by a series of evil and incompetent adults) they sound depressing. Yet every kid I know who has read them loves them. Even though the books have a lot of references most kids won't understand (e.g., the names, the take on "it takes a village" in one book), they get the humor and enjoy it.
Daniel Pinkwater and Louis Sacher have a similar somewhat surreal humor in their work, though not with quite the hipness of the Snicket books. And the Snicket books are subversive, which is always appealing to kids.
Sally Canzoneri
Received on Fri 03 May 2002 12:57:54 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 13:57:54 EDT
No one has yet mentioned the Lemony Snicket books. I think they are very funny, as do many of my students. If you describe the basic premise of the books (three children are orphaned in the first chapter then terrorized by a series of evil and incompetent adults) they sound depressing. Yet every kid I know who has read them loves them. Even though the books have a lot of references most kids won't understand (e.g., the names, the take on "it takes a village" in one book), they get the humor and enjoy it.
Daniel Pinkwater and Louis Sacher have a similar somewhat surreal humor in their work, though not with quite the hipness of the Snicket books. And the Snicket books are subversive, which is always appealing to kids.
Sally Canzoneri
Received on Fri 03 May 2002 12:57:54 PM CDT
