MJ Thomas Wrote:
>
> It strikes me that Pullman wants to strip children
> of their ‘childhood’ at an as-early-an-age as
> possible, and, generally speaking, I think that
> this is wrong.

Most of his books are written for teenagers (well, sort of, he says he writes for himself). I'd say to make that statement credible you'd have to read his books written for younger children like Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp, Jack and the Scarecrow, or Mossycoat.


Mind you, when asked how he would recommend his books for children, he said he would tell them:
"You are forbidden to read these books. They're too old for you, and they're full of things you shouldn't experience yet, like sex and violence and dangerous ideas about religion. I'm putting them up here, on this shelf, and I'm going out for an hour or so. You're not to touch them."
[books.guardian.co.uk]

Doug Weller

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