LM_NET 05/25/98: No Subject

From: Bonnie Lehmann <blehmann@mail.pris.bc.ca>
Subject: WATERLOO MACJANET
SYR.EDU Tue May 26 01:39:40 1998
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 22:47:30 EDT
net to run the computer lab in their
library or their school?  Please contact me at the e-mail address below
if you would like to "put heads together" re administering problems.
Thanks.
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Bonnie Lehmann                         blehmann@mail.pris.bc.ca
Teacher-Librarian
South Peace Secondary School
Dawson Creek, BC

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From: HanLGT <HanLGT@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Scary Stories

To Johanna and all:

I too agree with the difficulty of deciding which little kids can take out
which scary books.  I do not buy Goosebumps for the library, so that is one
problem I don't have to deal with, but Georgie the Ghost and The Little Old
Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything don't seem to be scary enough.

 I have one first grader who has read In a Dark, Dark Room so many times that
I told him he has to take out something else already and let others read that
book.  On the other hand, I had a mom send in a semi-nasty note to the
principal regarding that book (she is a psychologist....) saying that it is
totally inappropriate for little kids and will give them nightmares.  We did
not remove it from the shelves, but she certainly has a point.  Some kids want
to check out that stuff because other kids  talk about how "gross" a story is,
and many children, especially in K, are not ready to see a lady with her head
falling off when you remove the string around it.  Usually I steer children
toward that book, or the one called Five Funny Frights, and say that that is
about as scary as we offer for this age group.  If they want the Alvin
Schwartz anthology at that age, I ask them to come up after school with a
parent and I will be glad to check it out to them.

I admit is is disconcerting to see lots of little ones with that prurient
interest.  My children never asked for that stuff, and now as teens, they
never have had an interest in seeing teen horror movies.  I wonder if there is
a correlation.

Just my 2 cents.

Lisa Handelman
Adat Ari El Day School
N. Hollywood, CA
Hanlgt@aol.com

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