Kids Book

In this blog post, the idea of dumbing down kids' books will be considered. I hate the idea of dumbing down kids' books. Alpha, the world is seriously obfuscated and not reflecting that, but reflecting some simple pimple version is dumb. This might give children a simplistic world view. It also doesn't give them insight into the Real World 2. Beta, when I was kiddish, my mom read the Lord of the Rings to me. I loved it. I didn't pick out "the only time we're given is the time we're given. duh." as my favorite quote though. I didn't recognize the folly of Saruman in messing around too much with naughty things.

What of little kids' books? I'm not talking about "learn how to read" books. Although I could. Would one consider Go Dogs Go dumbed down? That the world represented there makes evil out to be simple or love to be superficial, unlike in our world? No. Because dogs are pretty dumb and superficial, rather mercenary-like and their most evil acts consist of stealing food, or sometimes killing a baby. I'm sorry.

Whatever. I read Till We Have Faces the other days. And then I read about 2 pages of Confessions. And now I've read about 34 pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. What, couldn't use colons in the title, J.K.? Didn't think of that? Didn't even think of an ampersand either, huh? Just kiddin'. But not about the post.



















Couldn't find the cover art to Kids Book. This will have to do.