ThemeOfSadness
December 16th, 2005, 11:04 PM
Say no to Harry Potter or whatever multicultural garbage is being aimed at your children.
"THE WORLD'S BEST CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
One may say what they will about the British but they can't deny them one thing - they believe that children are as smart as adults. If you want to know what's wrong with America simply check out the children's section of a bookstore or library. (A decent children's book hasn't been written in the last 30 years.) On the other hand the British completed their mastery of children's literature early in the 20th Century. The following children's book series are all you'll ever need to raise mentally fit youngsters.
Should one wonder why Johnny can't read its because Johnny was never read to. There one and only one partition between the patrician and the plebean and that is the quality of their children's literature.
God Bless Beatrix Potter!
Beatrix Potter was the author of the world famous Peter Rabbit stories. She knew how to entertain and educate children at the same time (rather than laboring under the false assumption that the two are mutually exclusive). She was not afraid to use words such as "perambulator" and "soporific". She knew that if children got used to 4 syllable words at a young age they would not be afraid of them as adults. She knew that children loved reading and hearing about animals in precarious situations and wasn't afraid to teach some good morals at the same time. If only the creators of modern children's entertainment understood these essentials!
A. A. Milne
Best known as the author of the Winnie the Pooh books A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956) would probably rank second best to Beatrix Potter as a children's author. In addition to the Winnie the Pooh, Milne wrote some of the best poetry ever written. "King John was not a good man - he had his little ways and sometimes no one spoke to him for days and days and days." "James James Morrison Morrison Wetherby George Dupree took great care of his mother though he was only three. Mother dear Mother he said to his mother, mother he said said he - you must never go down to the end of the town without consulting me!" and so on.
Lewis Carroll
insertCharles Lutwidge Dodgson, known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was a man of diverse interests - in mathematics, logic, photgraphy, art, theater, religion, medicine, and science. He was happiest in the company of children for whom he created puzzles, clever games, and charming letters.
As all Carroll admirers know, his book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865), became an immediate success and has since been translated into more than eighty languages. The equally popular sequel "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There", was published in 1872.
The "Alice" books are but one example of his wide ranging authorship. "The Hunting of the Snark", a classic nonsense epic (1876) and "Euclid and His Modern Rivals", a rare example of humorous work concerning mathematics, still entice and intrigue today's students. "Sylvie and Bruno", published toward the end of his life contains startling ideas including an 1889 description of weightlessness.
The humor, sparkling wit and genius of this Victorian Englishman have lasted for more than a century. His books are among the most quoted works in the English language, and his influence (with that of his illustrator, Sir John Tenniel) can be seen everywhere, from the world of advertising to that of atomic physics.insert
"The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things - of shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages and kings and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings."
http://www.geocities.com/~jmgould/anglo.html
"THE WORLD'S BEST CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
One may say what they will about the British but they can't deny them one thing - they believe that children are as smart as adults. If you want to know what's wrong with America simply check out the children's section of a bookstore or library. (A decent children's book hasn't been written in the last 30 years.) On the other hand the British completed their mastery of children's literature early in the 20th Century. The following children's book series are all you'll ever need to raise mentally fit youngsters.
Should one wonder why Johnny can't read its because Johnny was never read to. There one and only one partition between the patrician and the plebean and that is the quality of their children's literature.
God Bless Beatrix Potter!
Beatrix Potter was the author of the world famous Peter Rabbit stories. She knew how to entertain and educate children at the same time (rather than laboring under the false assumption that the two are mutually exclusive). She was not afraid to use words such as "perambulator" and "soporific". She knew that if children got used to 4 syllable words at a young age they would not be afraid of them as adults. She knew that children loved reading and hearing about animals in precarious situations and wasn't afraid to teach some good morals at the same time. If only the creators of modern children's entertainment understood these essentials!
A. A. Milne
Best known as the author of the Winnie the Pooh books A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956) would probably rank second best to Beatrix Potter as a children's author. In addition to the Winnie the Pooh, Milne wrote some of the best poetry ever written. "King John was not a good man - he had his little ways and sometimes no one spoke to him for days and days and days." "James James Morrison Morrison Wetherby George Dupree took great care of his mother though he was only three. Mother dear Mother he said to his mother, mother he said said he - you must never go down to the end of the town without consulting me!" and so on.
Lewis Carroll
insertCharles Lutwidge Dodgson, known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was a man of diverse interests - in mathematics, logic, photgraphy, art, theater, religion, medicine, and science. He was happiest in the company of children for whom he created puzzles, clever games, and charming letters.
As all Carroll admirers know, his book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865), became an immediate success and has since been translated into more than eighty languages. The equally popular sequel "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There", was published in 1872.
The "Alice" books are but one example of his wide ranging authorship. "The Hunting of the Snark", a classic nonsense epic (1876) and "Euclid and His Modern Rivals", a rare example of humorous work concerning mathematics, still entice and intrigue today's students. "Sylvie and Bruno", published toward the end of his life contains startling ideas including an 1889 description of weightlessness.
The humor, sparkling wit and genius of this Victorian Englishman have lasted for more than a century. His books are among the most quoted works in the English language, and his influence (with that of his illustrator, Sir John Tenniel) can be seen everywhere, from the world of advertising to that of atomic physics.insert
"The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things - of shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages and kings and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings."
http://www.geocities.com/~jmgould/anglo.html