Must we create another oppressed group?
Children need literature to read, to enjoy; to grow in and with. How can Children's and Young Adult literature be seen as less--lesser? These groupings of books or genres are not focused for those who would criticize them. Children's and Young Adult books, their topics, point of views, format, and style are meant for children and young adults and not exactly for other age and maturity groups. And yet, these various works of art are exactly that. These are the tools in which we craft the mental progression of the young we have bared. Why would we consider such important tools as lesser? Is it that our children are lesser? Do they not have the potential for higher education and must stick to the lesser? How can we press to oppress them on the basis of illustrations and wonderful fables, that teach more moral than perhaps you ever could?
Caldecott Medal winner for 2008: The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a current book which holds back nothing from the imagination and the conceptual birth of plot and characters. The book stetchs our youth in both spelling, vocabulary, and topics. Perfect for the budding mine.
Think before you speak...
Think before you speak less of things...
Perhaps you are approching irrelevance
and you're ideas are bankrupt.
KimC.
