Do you still read books belonging to the children's genre?

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I scarcely read children's books, unless I have to read them for reviews.
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Yes I do, it's fun reading children novels. Sometimes when I pick up some of my childhood novels, I feel happy thinking about those days.
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I still love to read children's books. I gauge myself just to know the level I have reached in terms of knowledge. Because children's books are very straight forward,you may end up seeing yourself failing on something simple you thought you knew.
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No, other than when reading to my children.
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Yes! I still read children's lit because I genuinely enjoy the stories but also it's fun to go back to my favorite kids books and relive them.
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It is fan if you test your brains with those books. You discover that even your children may start lecturing you on what you easily forgot. Sometimes we tend to be so busy with many other things leaving little little things pending only to be reminded by our own learning children. Great!
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Ofcourse.. it takes you to another world
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I will go through many of such books to see which one will be more interesting to me and see if I can go for one.
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Yes if i have not else to read.
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Twenty-six years ago, I found myself working as a young adult librarian in a kindergarten-grade 12 school. Five years later, I took on the elementary library as well. These positions were the beginning of my affinity with children's literature. Every time a new book shipment arrived, I became like a kid in a candy store: I wanted to sample everything. Even though the school moved to a building with no space for a library (!) and my position was eliminated (essentially putting me into retirement), I am as devoted to kiddie lit as ever. Thoughtful books like Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea and contemporary gems like A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban grab hold of me and don't let go until the last page. Well-written novels and nonfiction for children from preschoolers to teens stimulate everyone's imagination. Some day, I might even join the ranks of authors for the next generation of bibliophiles.
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Yes. I like a bit of nostalgia. A particular favourite is Roald Dahl's "The Twits".
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If I have finished a series or a lengthy novel, I will grab a children or young adult novel to read next. The children's books are usually much shorter and I can finish them pretty fast. They help clear my mind and prepare me for the next novel.
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Yes,I find them refreshing and forgiving, usually. Once on a while it challenges my way of my adult thinking.
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yea i love reading such books for my kids as we make fun
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I saw this topic and thought I might jump in since I just finished reading the first two books of the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis and am currently reading the Hobbit. As others have noted there is so obviously deeper levels of meaning and signification in books written originally for children. I love the sensation of recognizing some poignant symbolism or thematic undercurrent as I read from an adult perspective a book that I read when I was a small child. This is what happened when I read the Chronicles of Narnia. There is certainly something to be said from performing this exercise. It transports you back to a very different time and place in your life when you saw the world so differently than you do now.
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