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From: Mary Losure <mblosure_at_msn.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 08:55:23 -0500
I've been reading this thread with interest, and have a question.
Do any of you think that girls are more likely to read for STORY? And that if we could write more true stories that are actually stories--i.e. unfold like novels--that we would be able to get more girls to read non-fiction?
I wish now that I had read more non-fiction as a child, but I just wasn't interested in rocks, dinosaurs, World War I, etc.
Mary Losure Children's book author www.marylosure.com St. Paul, MN
PS I was also, I have to admit, not interested in biography, but I think that may have been that bios for kids were not nearly as well written when I was growing up as they are now. The school book report required reading of the 50's and 60's was bios full of predictable facts, made-up dialogue, etc . Also, I distinctly remember being given (for a book report, by a woman school librarian) a very poorly written, patronizing biography of Mark Twain's wife, written for kids younger than I was. I remember feeling hurt and insulted, as I was an avid reader of fiction.
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> Edith Campbell
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Received on Fri 06 Jun 2014 08:55:47 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 08:55:23 -0500
I've been reading this thread with interest, and have a question.
Do any of you think that girls are more likely to read for STORY? And that if we could write more true stories that are actually stories--i.e. unfold like novels--that we would be able to get more girls to read non-fiction?
I wish now that I had read more non-fiction as a child, but I just wasn't interested in rocks, dinosaurs, World War I, etc.
Mary Losure Children's book author www.marylosure.com St. Paul, MN
PS I was also, I have to admit, not interested in biography, but I think that may have been that bios for kids were not nearly as well written when I was growing up as they are now. The school book report required reading of the 50's and 60's was bios full of predictable facts, made-up dialogue, etc . Also, I distinctly remember being given (for a book report, by a woman school librarian) a very poorly written, patronizing biography of Mark Twain's wife, written for kids younger than I was. I remember feeling hurt and insulted, as I was an avid reader of fiction.
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> Has anyone else ever noticed how few biographies of women in children's and YA lit as compared to those of men? Would girls read them more if there were more to which they could relate?
>
> Edith Campbell
> Indiana State University
> Education Librarian
> Sent from my iPhone
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