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Critically Looking Back at Books from My Childhood

Critically Looking Back at Books from My Childhood
Posted September 18, 2021
Books, Discussions, Lists

Hi friends 👋🏻 September marks my 10 year blogging anniversary and I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting. Originally I planned to make a post about how blogging has changed in ten years, but that post ended up really boring so I want to talk about books I read as a child that I think have aged like milk. I was a child at the turn of the millennium but most of the books that I read were much older. If you can name any classic British children’s author from the 20th century, I probably read their books. When I was little, I didn’t think much about the content of these books because I didn’t know any better, but looking back has made me wince a little bit and now I’m wondering why I liked them in the first place. The obvious disclaimer is that this is just my opinion. There are people on the internet who get very defensive when you say that certain author’s books haven’t aged well and I’m never in the mood to argue with those people. ENID BLYTON’S SHORT STORIES Enid Blyton can be a bit of a hot button author in British bibliophile spaces […]

Children’s Books Need to Talk About “Disturbing” Subjects

Children’s Books Need to Talk About “Disturbing” Subjects
Posted July 2, 2020
Books, Discussions, Ramblings

Hi friends! 👋🏻 I’m finally back after an unexpected hiatus. For a while, I’d had some technical difficulties with Bloglovin’ not showing my posts and also giving me a bunch of spam followers, and then I needed to improve my site security and I didn’t know how so that definitely took a hit to my motivation. But I’ve managed to get everything fixed so now following with Bloglovin’ is an option again! Yay 🥳 Today I wanted to discuss something that has been on my mind for a good while now: which is the idea that books for children should not talk about serious subjects. This was sparked by a small thread of tweets from someone who said that they couldn’t believe how “disturbing” Jacqueline Wilson’s books are and a reply that said they’re not appropriate for children. If you’re not familiar with Jacqueline Wilson, she is arguably the most popular children’s author in the UK. Her books often cover serious subjects like child abandonment, divorce, death, stepparents, adoption, divorce, and the foster care system. Obviously, her books can be pretty controversial but that doesn’t stop them from being so popular and even being read in schools. I personally think […]