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>y children like the George R. R. Martin books How old are your children? They're great books but extremely...non kid-safe.
by runT1ME 16y ago
>y children like the George R. R. Martin books
How old are your children?
They're great books but extremely...non kid-safe.
- tokenadult 16y agoSome would say the same about the Philip Pullman books. Once they can read on their own, I let my kids read anything that the public library keeps in its collection. They hear about a lot of these books from friends.
- runT1ME 16y agoStill curious how old they are... Have you read George RR Martin?
- tokenadult 16y agoI think my oldest was reading George R. R. Martin by age twelve (but I could be a year or two off), on the recommendation of a friend who is somewhat younger, and my second son, who is only just now a teenager, has read some of those books. I have not read anything by him. On my part, I read the nonfiction book Treblinka by Jean-Francois Steiner http://www.amazon.com/Treblinka-Jean-Francois-Steiner/dp/0452011248 http://www.amazon.com/Treblinka-Jean-Francois-Steiner/dp/045... by no older than age ten, and no one would describe that as children's literature. (I reread parts of it a few years ago just to check if what I remembered about how graphic the violence in it is was accurate--yes, that is a true book with very grim details about a Nazi death camp.) Children deal with book content on their own terms. I didn't finish Orwell's 1984, which my dad had in the house, until my third attempt (thirteen-going-on-fourteen), because I found that very disturbing, and I still found 1984 disturbing when I reread it last year. Some great literature just isn't child-friendly, fiction or nonfiction, but some of it is well worth reading even during childhood.
- jules 16y agoWhat's non kid-safe about them, and for kids of what ages?
- runT1ME 16y agoGraphic rape, death, mutilation, etc. Probably OK for a kid in their teens but for an eight year old... it might be a little much.