The Zipes reading was rather long and boring. While reading it I found that I would have to read back over the paragraph I just read because I wasn't retaining the information. However, once I made myself do that I did agree with him on a few issues. At first I was not too impressed with the title "There is No Such Thing as Children's Literature." As I continued to read the chapter I found myself agreeing with some of his argument. For example, when he says that most of the readers, writers, editors, critics and publishers are adults, as are the distributors and owners of bookstores - Pg.40. I find that to be very good for his argument because adults may have been children at one time, but usually that is a time that has passed long ago and all they have are memories that may be slightly jumbled. I think that it is sad that there is such a tedious process for publishing children's literature. I think that the editor and author should do the editing together so that it doesn't seem like their whole book has been changed.
As for the Little Red Riding Hood variations, I found those to be hilarious. I think that maybe the cannibalism was a little odd, but made it interesting. Like one of the girls mentioned in class, it seems like the stories toward the end were more like the ones we grew up hearing and maybe the ones in the beginning were stories that were being told to children a long time ago before publishing and editing. I think that it is good to censor stories for children, but the beginning Riding Hood stories were more realistic and, to me, I think they had a better moral. What do you think?
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