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From: Lbhcove at aol.com <Lbhcove>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:03:03 EDT
Anything...any thing...Disney did to the classics is DIS-mal. Parents might find singing crickets, a princess who feels that one day her prince might come, all in day-glow colors, 'cute.' But he bastardized the classics in every sense of the word.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," might be a motto to all publishers. Leave the originals alone.
Caldecott board books? Classics in coloring book-formats? Poetry magnets to put on refrigerator doors? Let us continue the trend to make all youth idiots.
Stick with today's trend...where all YA book jackets are pretty pink and most novels deal with tragedy. It is just what are youth needs in these disturbing times.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
www.leebennetthopkinsbooks.com
Received on Wed 19 Jul 2006 04:03:03 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:03:03 EDT
Anything...any thing...Disney did to the classics is DIS-mal. Parents might find singing crickets, a princess who feels that one day her prince might come, all in day-glow colors, 'cute.' But he bastardized the classics in every sense of the word.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," might be a motto to all publishers. Leave the originals alone.
Caldecott board books? Classics in coloring book-formats? Poetry magnets to put on refrigerator doors? Let us continue the trend to make all youth idiots.
Stick with today's trend...where all YA book jackets are pretty pink and most novels deal with tragedy. It is just what are youth needs in these disturbing times.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
www.leebennetthopkinsbooks.com
Received on Wed 19 Jul 2006 04:03:03 PM CDT
