Dr. Seuss

From: Brian Tickler <tickler_at_netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 09:41:30 -0700 (PDT)

>I fully sympathise with the thrust of your statement, but I don't think it
>is _entirely_ accurate unless the man had a number of pseudonyms, including
>(but by no means restricted to) Kenneth Graham, Robert Louis Stephenson,
>A. E. Milne, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Hans Christian Andersen and
>Rudyard Kipling.
 

>Not that this has anything to do with Glorantha, but I just can't stand by
>and let such a large part of children's literature which owes nothing to
>the admittedly excellent "Doctor" go ignored in front of the readers of this
>list. My apologies to those Gloranthaphiles who have no interest in (or
>debt to) the classics of their youth...
 

I know I should just let this thread die...BUT, I feel an uncontrollable urge to point out that Dr. Seuss' stories are for a completely different age group than the authors you listed. While those authors can be read to a child of 3-5 years old, a child of such age can read Dr. Seuss for themselves...without the mind-numbing "See Spot run..." effect that damages so many children's imaginations beyond all hope of repair... :)

• -- Brian T. Tickler E-Mail: tickler_at_netcom.com

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