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From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:19:28 -0400
I'm not seeing the formula series on the level of Goosebumps and BSC being chattered about, but last year my kids were chattering with each other about The Warriors, Wimpy Kid, and a James Patterson series that a bunch of girls were obsessed with.
KT, you reminded me that I too had wonderful conversations with kids over Goosebumps, Babysitters Club, and Sweet Valley High when they were popular. I recall one girl loving the Fear Street series and the fantastic correspondence we had in her journal as she considered which one I should read as an introduction to the series. After much discussion among the kids I read their recommended Goosebumps; I remember a kid heading to camp and every chapter ending with a humongous cliff hanger and thinking, "Very clever, Mr. Stine."
Like many others here of a certain age I too was a big fan of Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames, especially the later for its school-story-like milieu.
Monica
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:40 AM, K.T. Horning wrote:
So it's interesting to me to read that today there is no concern about kids reading formula series books. I think that's a good thing, so long as the kids themselves are freely choosing them to read for pleasure. But do you notice kids having interactions around the series books they are reading, as we were pretty much forced to do when we borrowed them from each other, or as kids a generation ago did in having to negotiate with their parents for permission to read them?
Monica Edinger 600 West 111th Street Apt 2A New York NY 10025 educating alice _at_medinger on twitter My Huffington Post Blog
Received on Fri 05 Aug 2011 03:19:28 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:19:28 -0400
I'm not seeing the formula series on the level of Goosebumps and BSC being chattered about, but last year my kids were chattering with each other about The Warriors, Wimpy Kid, and a James Patterson series that a bunch of girls were obsessed with.
KT, you reminded me that I too had wonderful conversations with kids over Goosebumps, Babysitters Club, and Sweet Valley High when they were popular. I recall one girl loving the Fear Street series and the fantastic correspondence we had in her journal as she considered which one I should read as an introduction to the series. After much discussion among the kids I read their recommended Goosebumps; I remember a kid heading to camp and every chapter ending with a humongous cliff hanger and thinking, "Very clever, Mr. Stine."
Like many others here of a certain age I too was a big fan of Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames, especially the later for its school-story-like milieu.
Monica
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:40 AM, K.T. Horning wrote:
So it's interesting to me to read that today there is no concern about kids reading formula series books. I think that's a good thing, so long as the kids themselves are freely choosing them to read for pleasure. But do you notice kids having interactions around the series books they are reading, as we were pretty much forced to do when we borrowed them from each other, or as kids a generation ago did in having to negotiate with their parents for permission to read them?
Monica Edinger 600 West 111th Street Apt 2A New York NY 10025 educating alice _at_medinger on twitter My Huffington Post Blog
Received on Fri 05 Aug 2011 03:19:28 PM CDT
