Hiya! I know I'm new here but I have, right off the bat, found a topic that's dear to my heart - kids books!
Now coming from someone who finally
got through The Silmarillion by the age of 9 1/2, I think I have a right now to read as many kids books as I like. To be honest, all those depressing political chases across the Eastern Bloc countries bore the pants off me
, and if you can have the same chase, chuck in an imaginary setting designed to appeal to a 10 year old, and make it appealing to a less jaded audience, well why the heck shouldn't we all enjoy it!
Things like The Princess Bride are basically a kids book, but most adults who bother reading it or seeing the film can see that the humour is many layered and designed to appeal to the adults too, though in a more subtle way.
And if you threw the His Dark Materials trilogy (anyone read it?? Philip Pullman) at a whoooole lot of adults they would be totally fazed by the depth of philosophy and religious implications that got stuck in this "kids' book". But kids can cope... so why shoudn't we try to read
up to their level hmmm??
Going to pull my head in now
but nice to meet ya all!