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32. Yes! Which is why I also didn't like the librarian's discouragement

Sun Jan 12, 2014, 11:39 PM

Jan 2014

of series reading. Goosebumps, the Magic Treehouse, etc. -- I was happy to buy my kids series books. They're like the comfort food of books. And what's wrong with kids having books that are just plain comfortable and fun? I think many lifelong book lovers start out with an addiction to a series that librarians would turn up their noses at. I remember when my son went through three weeks of non-stop reading of Magic Treehouse, until he suddenly ran out. There was nothing else to read! So I picked up the first Harry Potter and started reading it aloud, and soon he was on my lap, trying to read it along with me. By the next year (third grade) he was a librarian's dream, reading omnivorously. But it all started with the Magic Treehouse.

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the school librarian told this to my 13 year old granddaughter [View all] iwillalwayswonderwhy Jan 2014 OP

Just go to the first part of the non-fiction section. Archae Jan 2014 #1

The only thing that comes close is an Academic Peer Review (Placed in the open for all to comment). TheBlackAdder Jan 2014 #2

Now that's a poor librarian. MineralMan Jan 2014 #3

Good grief. historylovr Jan 2014 #4

I think you should address this with the librarian Ilsa Jan 2014 #5

The librarian at our school used to tell the kids that when reading fiction, pnwmom Jan 2014 #6

Why shouldn't someone look up the Jenoch Jan 2014 #8

They can if they want, but stopping the story to look up every unfamiliar word destroys the El_Johns Jan 2014 #9

Just click on it FreeJoe Jan 2014 #11

Funny, none of our paper books do that. pnwmom Jan 2014 #16

Clicking on it doesn't teach them how to deduce the meaning from context on their own. El_Johns Jan 2014 #17

It was my grandparents' library for me. And their ancient Encylopedia Britannica, pnwmom Jan 2014 #15

+1. At that age, it seemed an entry to the secret world of grown-ups to me. El_Johns Jan 2014 #18

Because it takes you out of the flow of the story and much of the fun goes away. pnwmom Jan 2014 #14

Yes, better than someone who looked it up. You forget something you looked up easily, but when El_Johns Jan 2014 #20

It's the same way children learn spoken language. Babies don't sit there asking adults pnwmom Jan 2014 #22

Yes. Babies are rewarded by interaction with people, just like kids under the best of circumstances El_Johns Jan 2014 #24

Yes! Which is why I also didn't like the librarian's discouragement pnwmom Jan 2014 #32

Agree. Let them read what captures their imagination. My 7 year old cousin is reading comic El_Johns Jan 2014 #33

Now graphic novels are big, so comic book lovers can move on to them. pnwmom Jan 2014 #34

I think that was for a older demographic. :) El_Johns Jan 2014 #35

Magic cards! That's what finally got my youngest reading. Laffy Kat Jan 2014 #36

Yeah -- my six year old was highly motivated to read the Mario Brothers manual. pnwmom Jan 2014 #37

Limbaugh and Hannity's books are filed under non-fiction Fumesucker Jan 2014 #7

Couldn't finish them. Ran out of crayons. Magenta works best. kairos12 Jan 2014 #30

Does this librarian even hold an MLIS? TheMightyFavog Jan 2014 #10

dr suess tells the truth--i knew it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dembotoz Jan 2014 #12

Dr. Seuss rules. "Oh, The Places You'll Go." kairos12 Jan 2014 #31

I doubt that was a librarian. LWolf Jan 2014 #13

WOW KatyMan Jan 2014 #19

Yes, I doubt anyone with an MLS from any era would make that error Karia Jan 2014 #40

Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2014 #21

My wife holds an MLIS JanMichael Jan 2014 #23

I doubt it was a librarian anyway. Librarians are generally book people, & book people know that El_Johns Jan 2014 #25

Tell your granddaughter to ask the librarian if "Mein Kampf" is all true. (nt) Nye Bevan Jan 2014 #26

That's only true of peer-reviewed work. Deep13 Jan 2014 #27

The librarian should know better, revisionist arthritisR_US Jan 2014 #28

Most non fiction stories are fiction. Otherwise it would be a boring story. Lint Head Jan 2014 #29

Good grief. SheilaT Jan 2014 #38

tell your granddaughter to stay away from the section where they place all the new, popular liberal_at_heart Jan 2014 #39