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A signal we used when picking out books for our kids was to avoid any book that had a silver foil medal on the cover announcing it had won the Newbery or some o
by criddell 2y ago
A signal we used when picking out books for our kids was to avoid any book that had a silver foil medal on the cover announcing it had won the Newbery or some other award. These books often had an eat-your-vegetables vibe about them. They were books adults thought kids should like but rarely were ones that our kids would go back to again and again.
- quercusa 2y agoThat seems like a reasonable heuristic for books from the mid-70s on, but before that they were usually really good books.
- throwway120385 2y agoThe only book with a foil I'd not avoid is Where the Wild Things Are.