what would you think of a children's book where the universe is saved because two pre-teens have sex

[cali]

because there is a very popular piece of children's fiction where that's exactly what happens.

Would you let your 10 year old read it?

I'm just curious.

points for naming the novel.

[CBGLuthier]

1. One thing is for sure, try to google the book at your own peril.

I can not offer an opinion on such a vague description.

May as well ask what famous book and novelist features an unconvicted rapist as its protagonist.

[Tikki]

2. The Amber Spyglass..

for 10 pts.




Tikki

[cali]

3. you are, of course, correct

[olddots]

4. The bible ?

I have never read it but who knows ?

[baldguy]

8. My first guess, too.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Genesis? nt

[Warren DeMontague]

6. That's after one of them kills "God"

And yeah. It's a great series. My kid read it when he was 7. I don't think he grokked the sex part, but it was sort of implied and incidental.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials

[Tien1985]

7. His Dark Materials trilogy

Read it at 11-12 yrs old. War on God, high adventure, warrior polar bears and badass witches. Awesome books, I am looking forward to my son reading them.

Edited to add: he is 9, and for the most part anything he is capable of reading with some fluency we let him read. He just hasn't shown an interest yet. No problem, I can anticipate

[Viking12]

9. Island by Aldous Huxley

[Brickbat]

10. Dark Materials trilogy. Both of my kids (son and daughter) read it at age 9.

Fantastic books.

[Brickbat]

11. Also, IT by Stephen King.

Maybe not children's fiction, though.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. The His Dark Materials Trilogy

I read it a couple of years ago, after there was all the fundamentalists got their undies in a bunch about "killing God."

Pullman is a fantastic writer, and I did not find the book the least bit offensive. It is, in fact, a very spiritual book, whether Pullman intended it that way or not.

[burnodo]

13. cali, you're infuriating

but I like you

[XemaSab]

14. It didn't *technically* say they had sex

[WinkyDink]

15. The Q'uran?

[winter is coming]

16. I'd say that any book where the world is saved because someone has sex should be

shelved as "fantasy".

[Skip Intro]

17. Happily childless but would shiled my 10yr old from such garbage as best I could. n/t

[REP]

20. I read 'Oedipus and Akhnaten' by Velikovsky around that age

Yes, I did have to look up "incest," but I wasn't scarred for life (except, perhaps, than by thinking it's a very interesting theory).

[LittleBlue]

18. Yes, I'd let my child read it

I think people are tying themselves in logical knots over nothing.

[davidthegnome]

19. Wouldn't think much of it.

If it was something my ten year old picked up at, say, a library, or was interested in at a bookstore, I'd let him or her read it. I would neither encourage nor discourage it, but from the simple way you're describing it, it sounds like crap to me.

I grew up reading Twain, Tolkien, Weiss and Hickman, Jordan, Coe, Eddings... the list is really long. I was a shy kid who spent a lot of time reading - but as a result, I'm well aware of some of the best fantasy/science fiction writing out there - I've read a whole heck of a lot of it. I would have a very long list of books to suggest to any child of mine - and they would be welcome to read pretty much whatever they wanted to, as well.

I think it's foolish to restrict imagination or knowledge. What I would do though, is offer my guidance and make sure that any child of mine didn't get the wrong ideas about things from the books they read.

What frequently annoys me are all these parents who determine that their children can only read "good Christian books". Most of the "good Christian books" I've seen are absolute garbage that would bore me to tears.

[REP]

21. First book I read on my own: Thurber's "Wonderful O" Second book: The Prince

I was allowed to read any book in the house, and since I loved 13 Clocks, I went for more Thurber. Then I went for the next small book.

[cynatnite]

22. I'd have to know more about the book. n/t