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The Joys of Reading Children’s Books
What’s so great about reading children’s and Y.A. literature, even when you’re well into your adult years? Quite a lot, Pamela Paul maintains in this essay:
“A lot of adult literature is all art and no heart,” Foreman, who is currently working on a book about British involvement in the American Civil War, said. “But good Y.A. is like good television. There’s a freshness there; it’s engaging. Y.A. authors aren’t writing about middle-aged anomie or disappointed people.”
That may be, in part, why so many middle-aged readers like them.