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From: Connie Rockman <connie.rock>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:19:50 -0500
"Mother" Moore would have been about the same vintage as the neighborhood librarian in Philadelphia who looked down her long nose at my childhood self and pronounced doom on my beloved Nancy Drew books .
. .
Reading guidance for children should be just that - guidance . . . Not adult literary criticism and super-imposed values. Had that long-ago librarian been willing to meet me where I was and gently lead me on to something a little more enriching, she would have done her job much better than sending a shy 10-year-old away feeling chastened, dismissed, and with no desire to approach another librarian for a long, long time to come.
Yes, Anne Carroll Moore did many fine things in her day, but we are none of us infallible. Her feelings about Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little have been well-documented - and time has proved her not quite
"on target" with those prejudices either . . .
Connie Rockman
On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:26 PM, Ruth I. Gordon wrote:
> May I remind those who may have forgotten that the "mothers" of service
> to children, especially Ann Carroll Moore strongly objected to series
> books--except, of course for Louisa M. Alcott, and, I suppose, L.M.
> Montgomery.
>
>
>
> Hmmmmm.
>
> Big Grandma
>
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Received on Mon 05 Dec 2005 01:19:50 PM CST
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:19:50 -0500
"Mother" Moore would have been about the same vintage as the neighborhood librarian in Philadelphia who looked down her long nose at my childhood self and pronounced doom on my beloved Nancy Drew books .
. .
Reading guidance for children should be just that - guidance . . . Not adult literary criticism and super-imposed values. Had that long-ago librarian been willing to meet me where I was and gently lead me on to something a little more enriching, she would have done her job much better than sending a shy 10-year-old away feeling chastened, dismissed, and with no desire to approach another librarian for a long, long time to come.
Yes, Anne Carroll Moore did many fine things in her day, but we are none of us infallible. Her feelings about Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little have been well-documented - and time has proved her not quite
"on target" with those prejudices either . . .
Connie Rockman
On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:26 PM, Ruth I. Gordon wrote:
> May I remind those who may have forgotten that the "mothers" of service
> to children, especially Ann Carroll Moore strongly objected to series
> books--except, of course for Louisa M. Alcott, and, I suppose, L.M.
> Montgomery.
>
>
>
> Hmmmmm.
>
> Big Grandma
>
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