![]() ![]() ![]() When Marnie Was There is such a fantastic read. Yet I worried this children's story would be just like the rest. The trailer looked fantastic, however, and I thought it would be fun to read the book to the kiddos before we watched the movie. Prior to this, I'd never heard of the title or its author, Joan G. Was I missing something, some basic trait in myself that made deficient my understanding of a good story?When I first saw the trailer for Studio Ghibli's newest film, When Marnie Was There, I knew I'd found our newest family read. Either way, book after book, I was disappointed with the action-begets-conflict-leading-to-more-action plot. Perhaps they were out there and I just couldn't find them. The authors of children's tales clearly knew nothing about creating round characters who develop or using language to further the plot perhaps they knew and just refused to utilize them. Though the stories were good, every one was guilty of being a story and little more. ![]() ![]() Had I missed much? I began to explore some of the titles I'd heard others rave about, some old and some new. I did read one or two Judy Blumes, but that was as close as I got to “good literature” until I was much older.Once I had children, my curiosity about children's literature grew. Mostly, I read Garfield and Choose Your Own Adventure. The books I read were not the classic adventures you may have read. I read for fun as a child, but not voraciously. I didn't grow up with a great love of reading like many of my contemporary readers and writers. ![]()
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