http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/09/reaching-a-younger-generation-of-readers/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/09/reaching-a-younger-generation-of-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-42804 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:35:18 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=11916#comment-42804 […] article, Reaching A Younger Generation of Readers, first appeared on Dystel & Goderich Literary […]

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/09/reaching-a-younger-generation-of-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-42679 Wed, 02 Sep 2015 18:04:44 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=11916#comment-42679 From your bio sketch, your lads sound anything but typical; however unless they’re busy composing symphonies or considering propositions from Wittgenstein, we can make some assumptions here: Basically your guys use i-pads and laptops the same way I did TV and comics when I was that age. I was much too hyper to do much reading, although I collected comics and monster bubblegum cards. (including a Fantastic Four #1 which I lost$$$!!!) However, my folks didn’t let me watch TV 24/7 (not much on in daytime anyway), I’d pick up anything that had an exciting picture on the cover… Go look up some old Goosebumps books-R.L. Stine is a natural interface for kids that age, and by all means resist the temptation to buy them something “worthwhile”… I know overprotective parenting has made a lot of boys afraid of anything scary these days (Goosebumps isn’t by the standards of the 60’s) but one of these days they’ll end up in summer camp, and unless they go to some sort of bubble-boy camp where they sit around and discuss nutrition, somebody’s going to light a fire and tell them the story of The Thing In The Lake-they need to be immunized, and the sooner the better…

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