tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6348565769980243196.post4483172177949698359..comments2023-03-28T04:36:55.666-07:00Comments on Green Wizard Publishing: Do Children NEED to read more books?Mark Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15628714785452520054noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6348565769980243196.post-32144235177480810142014-12-11T17:18:40.863-08:002014-12-11T17:18:40.863-08:00Love this. Thank you for sharing. Truly inspiring!...Love this. Thank you for sharing. Truly inspiring!Brenda Perlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13082490921735156699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6348565769980243196.post-19276479064473360482014-12-10T03:37:17.719-08:002014-12-10T03:37:17.719-08:00Great article, Mark. Having got a 9 year old boy a...Great article, Mark. Having got a 9 year old boy and 7 year old daughter I know the importance of encouraging reading of fiction books and my 9 year old has suddenly discovered the joys of reading on his own (as in a whole novel), and he is so proud of himself when he's finished. I check he's understanding it all and not 'skim-reading' but he loves it and it's great. I can't imagine a house without any books in it! Your Brilliant Books scheme is wonderful, long may it continue! :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17054862986873877299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6348565769980243196.post-78869529146175869742014-12-09T15:36:34.310-08:002014-12-09T15:36:34.310-08:00I think they have to study Social Media in some de...I think they have to study Social Media in some depth, nowadays. The fella that I worked with on Dawn of the Unread told me it is an option in a Media degree too. Now this is fine, as you allude to, but what about the humble book. Okay, if you take HP, you're going to get fun characters and an absorbing story, but you are not going to get the beautiful prose we were exposed to. Beautiful Prose, if there is such a concept, which you seldom get in social media, is as endangered as the set text and that would be a shame, wouldn't it, Georgia. <br />It all started with the Plain English Society ha ha ha. Thx for reading and commenting, Georgia. It's always appreciated.Mark Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15628714785452520054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6348565769980243196.post-44851322973941238752014-12-09T15:31:40.979-08:002014-12-09T15:31:40.979-08:00Lorraine, thank you for replying. I agree with you...Lorraine, thank you for replying. I agree with you entirely. We can do Both, can't we. I think that's what the professor is saying - and some of the others in the article, the great and the good, as we say over here. But if I was a member of that august body I would tubthump for the book...<br /><br />....and, still, it is discoverable in fiction. Beautifully composed, artfully imagined, narratively complex fiction. The gift that keeps on giving. <br /><br />,,,exactly like that! Thanks, L :DMark Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15628714785452520054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6348565769980243196.post-62613658247859072952014-12-09T13:45:54.488-08:002014-12-09T13:45:54.488-08:00I agree with you completely. I can't imagine g...I agree with you completely. I can't imagine growing up and not having spent some part of every day reading fiction. Kids need to cover both new media as well as books nowadays there's no either/or. Reading actual books starts at home, continues at school and should be encouraged everywhere they go until it becomes an essential part of their life.<br /><br />I have a horrible feeling that in the not too distant future set texts will be dropped from the school syllabus and the kids will have to write reports on such things as blog posts etc because it's felt not enough of them are managing to get to the end of a book and what a depressing world we will be living in then.Georgia Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08617952846902258246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6348565769980243196.post-38732915867117710172014-12-09T07:35:32.622-08:002014-12-09T07:35:32.622-08:00I could not agree with you more. While I accept, e...I could not agree with you more. While I accept, even embrace, our changing world, even have a Millennial son who's made the same argument as the Lit Professor about the reading he accomplishes on new media, there is just a different literary, emotional and mental experience that occurs when one immerses themselves in long form fiction. <br /><br />First of all, and we see evidence of this EVERYWHERE, much of what is posted online these days by way of articles, blogs, even memes, comes replete with misspellings, poor grammar, sloppy narrative and dubious fact. It seems the bar for what's acceptable in writing has lowered commensurate with the scores of untrained writers needed to create click-bait for the countless sites hungry for 24/7 copy. Between that and the staccato bursts of text-length communication that suffices as sentences, it is undeniable that the depth and richness of reading is being lost, to a certain extent, in modern media.<br /><br />And, still, it is discoverable in fiction. Beautifully composed, artfully imagined, narratively complex fiction. The gift that keeps on giving. <br /><br />And it doesn’t have to be an either/or -- old or new media. At least that’s what I tell my son. It is a BOTH. Read both. But don’t relegate fiction to “old media,” or “old school” assignations. It is as relevant and necessary to our current culture as a working modem. And fiction, as opposed to that modem, will leave one with sustaining ideas and inspirations. That’s never old school. <br /> Lorraine Devon Wilkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07425798424148232692noreply@blogger.com