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Because today's YA fiction is DARK and SCARY and will cause kids to HURT THEMSELVES unless their parents exercise CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!
I've never heard of this editorial writer, and I have no freaking idea the Wall Street Journal even has a YA or kiddie book reviewer since, you know, they're a financial newspaper and not exactly popular with the under-25 set. But it strikes me that someone who claims to be a specialist in children's literature should have at least a nodding acquaintance with the really dark stuff, like Hans Christian Anderson or Grimm's fairy tales, before she spouts off about the horrible, horrible, darkness of today's YA books.
*gah*
I've never heard of this editorial writer, and I have no freaking idea the Wall Street Journal even has a YA or kiddie book reviewer since, you know, they're a financial newspaper and not exactly popular with the under-25 set. But it strikes me that someone who claims to be a specialist in children's literature should have at least a nodding acquaintance with the really dark stuff, like Hans Christian Anderson or Grimm's fairy tales, before she spouts off about the horrible, horrible, darkness of today's YA books.
*gah*
