Classics: Why We Should Encourage Children to Read Them
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Re: Classics: Why We Should Encourage Children to Read Them
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Then, again, every generation has their own list of 'classics'. And there is not single truth about whose classics are more classics...
I had to read Dostoyevsky at 14 and absolutely hated it. However, his Idiot at 40 was just the thing...
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Having said that, there is a lot of great YA fiction out there.
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