Re: Reading GOOD-FOR-YOU Books

[Saranne Gans <SGans@CISTERCIAN.ORG>]

Dear Almost Best Friends and Colleagues,

I have to say that I have the privilege to work at an all boys' private
school. I see the boys grow from about 10 years to 18.

The ones who begin reading ANYTHING like Garfield, FarSide, Choose Your Own
Aventures (CYOA to us) or Animorphs do not develop gelatin for brains. As
seniors they CAN AND DO for the most part read ANYTHING they want -- great
literary classics, moldy (to me) Latin authors, EVEN dare I say it? -- THE
GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD! One senior last year who reads everything
Sci-Fi (at which some TYPES look askance), also read Summa Theologica-St.
Thomas Aquinas! How can I NOT offer "dips and chips" to my young readers
when they advance naturally to greater and greater feasts. (I've had to
lobby at our school to keep Garfield.)

Easy paperbacks, comic series and other FUN, escape-type reading is FINE at
our school. It's developmental.

Adults read all sorts/levels of things, and so CAN young people.

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Saranne Lowrey Gans
Librarian/Educator 28 years, mom 8 years
Cistercian Preparatory School
(a private school for 340 boys grades 5-12 in Dallas-Ft. Worth area)
One Cistercian Rd.
Irving, TX 75039
http://cistercian.org (Library web page available by clicking school,
faculty, then my picture)
sgans@cistercian.org (work)
biologybook@earthlink.net (home)
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"Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't."~~Mark Twain

"We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced.  It is
man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man."~~Albert
Schweitzer.

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