shock fiction

[Betty Winslow <freelancer@WCNET.ORG>]

When children's author Jan Wahl was asked what he thought of books like
Goosebumps at a conference I was at, he simply replied, "Should books for
young readers add to their anxieties and contribute to their fears, or
[should they] give them the means of conquering them?" I've never heard it
put better.

Betty Winslow, Media Center Director
BGCA, Bowling Green, OH
freelancer@wcnet.org

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