http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/30/how-to-read-to-a-six-year-old/ A book blog from the staff at AbeBooks Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:49:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/30/how-to-read-to-a-six-year-old/comment-page-1/#comment-11554 elizabethc Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:33:19 +0000 http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/30/how-to-read-to-a-six-year-old/#comment-11554 I love Roald Dahl, and have just finished his (adult) book <i>My Uncle Oswald</i>. One of my favourite parts of Dahl's writing is the satisfying sense of justice. There aren't always perfect endings (despite what the movie version of <i>The Witches</i> would have us believe, the little boy does NOT get de-moused at the end of the book), but the good people end up relatively happy, and the twits end up exploded, or upside down, or petrified, or being run over by a giant, runaway peach. It's satisfying to read, and I think children enjoy that as well. I don't remember being even slightly shocked or traumatized by any of Dahl's books as a child - only delighted. I love Roald Dahl, and have just finished his (adult) book My Uncle Oswald. One of my favourite parts of Dahl’s writing is the satisfying sense of justice. There aren’t always perfect endings (despite what the movie version of The Witches would have us believe, the little boy does NOT get de-moused at the end of the book), but the good people end up relatively happy, and the twits end up exploded, or upside down, or petrified, or being run over by a giant, runaway peach. It’s satisfying to read, and I think children enjoy that as well. I don’t remember being even slightly shocked or traumatized by any of Dahl’s books as a child – only delighted.

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