Kids and books WAS: Re: Bard of Avon

[sistermagpie]

> Carol responds:
Part of it is the temptation of
> technology, part of it is the example of parents, part of it is peer
> pressure, part of it, maybe, is the schools. All I know is that, aside
> from my two-year-old grandniece, only one kid of my acquaintance (my
> seventeen-year-old niece) is a book lover. And even she gave up on the
> Harry Potter books a few years ago after the third or fourth one. Why,
> I don't know. she just said that she wasn't interested. (Then, again,
> she was on the softball team and in both band and orchestra, so maybe
> she didn't have time to read for fun!)

Magpie:
True, but in the past not all kids were interested in reading either. 
For years there's been a perception that turning off the TV will cause 
a kid to pick up a book, for instance, but the kids who would do that 
would probably do it anyway. The nerd stereotype usually includes 
computer games, books and TV.

I used to work in a children's bookstore so I knew lots of kids who 
were avid readers, luckily. 

-m