From: Kathy Johnson <kmquimby>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:44:45 -0400

It not only is possible to read books differently as children, but I think many of us have had that experience. As an adult, I was surprised to discover how preachy Little Women was, because I ignored or dismissed the preachiness when I was a child reader and focused on Jo's independence and Amy's travels in Europe.

But isn't one of the beauties of reading that the reader creates their own version of the book, one that does not necessarily mesh with the writer's intention, or with any shadow text the book may contain?

Kathy Q.

At 10:31 PM 7/20/2009, Claudia Pearson wrote:
>Isn't it possible to read books differently as children? This is not to say
>there is not a shadow text, but rather that a child might construct it
>differently, read the book with a "resistent" attitude, such as Fetterly
>suggests?
>
>I know of at least two children's book texts which could be read from
>either the child's point of view or an adult point of view: Margaret Wise
>Brown's Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon.
>
>Is it possible that we are looking at children's books as adults rather
>than as children?
>
>Claudia Pearson
>pearsoncrz at earthlink.net
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