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That description seems more appropriate for, say, Roald Dahl than it does for Pratchett. Pratchett was, for the most part, a comedy fantasy author. Most of hi
by pdpi 7y ago
That description seems more appropriate for, say, Roald Dahl than it does for Pratchett.
Pratchett was, for the most part, a comedy fantasy author. Most of his writing was appropriate for younger audiences (with exceptions, like Monstrous Regiment), but I wouldn’t call it children’s books. The fact that his Tiffany Aching books are specifically aimed at the Young Adult market suggests that he agreed.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoInteresting comparison. Roald Dahl has in his oeuvre many stories that are far less intended for children than anything I have ever read by Pratchett. Pratchett keeps pretty much all of his stories accessable by at least teenagers. You cannot say the same for Dahl.
- pdpi 7y agoThat’s fair, yes. I merely meant that Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolatw Factory, Esio Trot and many others are much more deliberately children’s books than just about anything by Pratchett Dahl definitely has decidedly non-children appropriate work. Fancy some roast leg of lamb for dinner?
- inflatableDodo 7y ago>Fancy some roast leg of lamb for dinner? After I've finished my cup of tea. It has a bit of an odd flavour though. Did you add almonds or something? I'd say that while Pratchett's books are wider in intended audience than Dahl, there does seem to be care taken with pretty much all of them not to include anything that would cause an adult to tell a child not to read them. As a child, I never had any adults tell me that I should not be reading Pratchett at my age, which was a fairly common occurence with much of what I was reading.