We read this to Iris last summer and have since read her Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Jungle Books, The Little Prince, and The Secret Garden. The language is SO advanced for childrens' literature- we're constantly shocked by the amount of difficultly written dialect, long words, or complex ideas presented in classic childrens' books. For me, these were all things I read as a child, and it's so fascinating to see the things I pick up about the story as an adult, or the way they make me feel as opposed to how unaffected I was by them as a child. (Or oblivious, perhaps.)
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Date: 2010-07-08 04:43 pm (UTC)We read this to Iris last summer and have since read her Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Jungle Books, The Little Prince, and The Secret Garden. The language is SO advanced for childrens' literature- we're constantly shocked by the amount of difficultly written dialect, long words, or complex ideas presented in classic childrens' books.
For me, these were all things I read as a child, and it's so fascinating to see the things I pick up about the story as an adult, or the way they make me feel as opposed to how unaffected I was by them as a child. (Or oblivious, perhaps.)