https://padlet.com/kristenluettchau7/bnmdm67a5oq7zu8b Identify some of the key points that each writer makes. Give reasoning. Include textual support where possible with in-text citations. en-us 2022-01-26 22:11:33 UTC 2022-01-26 23:55:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/kristenluettchau7/bnmdm67a5oq7zu8b/wish/2014707695 - Young readers do not necessarily need happy endings
- Books can prepare children for real life experiences 
- Ex: death "Others view books about death as psychologically important for young readers...'literature about real and fictional people satisfies a desperate need to comfort children who are justifiably bewildered and fearful about death'" (Murrill 359). 
- Agree with this quote, I experienced a death in my class when we were reading the outsiders and I think it prepared us more for it 
- Young readers create meaning through their own perspectives
- Get exposed to new perspectives that they would not have been exposed to if they did not read the book(s)
- Empowers children and creates compassion and empathy 
- Books can act as mirrors or windows for children (both are important)

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-"Other critics, authors, and teachers have cautioned that providing young readers with exclusively happy stories oversimplifies a child's sense of reality" (357).
- Adults are the ones who are deciding what books are appropriate for children, often not focusing on what the children want.

Feinberg:
- Anecdotal; from a mom's perspective watching her son Alex have to read "depressing" books.
- Alex seems to only be assigned books that deal with heavy topics, and he struggles with them emotionally; "There he'd be, reading one or another book assigned from school, under the cone of his desk lamp. He never looked at ease while he read. I had tried adjusting his light and suggested he close his door. No, he always wanted the door open when he read, didn't like to be alone with these
books. 'Everyone dies in them,' he told me wearily" (2). 

Conclusion: We believe that children should be provided with a balance of "happy" and "depressing" endings, because they will respond differently depending on their own experiences. The books should be chosen based on the children's responses rather than adult opinions]]> 2022-01-26 23:45:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenluettchau7/bnmdm67a5oq7zu8b/wish/2014711634 https://padlet.com/kristenluettchau7/bnmdm67a5oq7zu8b/wish/2014711999 - Not quite remembering how shocking some of these YA books actually were, like the example from Feinberg "Walk Two Moons". (p.3)

- Exposing children a little too early - Feinberg
- Leave it up to the kids - Murrill 

- The topics are important ones that children should learn about but at what age is it appropriate to show them these kinds of topics. 

- Hard to make that kind of choice when children are coming from so many different backgrounds and experiences, so some children have seen things that are shocking while others might not have 

- Children sounding like adults because the adults are writing, like the example Feinberg made about how kids don't "play" in books. It might be briefly mentioned, but it's not the focus of the story. (if that's the case who are these books for?) (p.10)]]> 2022-01-26 23:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenluettchau7/bnmdm67a5oq7zu8b/wish/2014711999 https://padlet.com/kristenluettchau7/bnmdm67a5oq7zu8b/wish/2014714278 - "The books evoke compassion, sure. They offer a glimpse into other lives, broaden understanding of the inequities of society" (Feinberg 15). 
- "Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life" (Feinberg 18). 
- Important for children to come up with their own endings and put themselves into characters' shoes
- Open endings leave book open for children's imagination and creativity 
- Meaning that children get from books is all relative, some might get a lot out of a book and others might not get as much 
- Children's books tell us much more about the" ideal child" as defined by society rather than the "real child" 
- Books have different purposes for different people]]> 2022-01-26 23:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kristenluettchau7/bnmdm67a5oq7zu8b/wish/2014714278 https://padlet.com/kristenluettchau7/bnmdm67a5oq7zu8b/wish/2014720054 Murrill
-Thematic conclusions are better than happy/conclusive ones (pg. 361)
-Children are (generally) sophisticated enough to appreciate an unhappy/inconclusive ending (pg. 363 - discussion of Tuck Everlasting) 
-Purely happy/simple stories are inauthentic (The Chocolate War Discussion) 
"If young readers are provided only with happy endings, they will soon realize that their literature does not mirror the realities in their lives”
-Books are not always meant to teach you something (pg. 362)


Feinberg
-Imagination is constrained to be more constrained 
" And it is precisely this dimension to childhood experience that is absent from many realistic novels and virtually all problem novels. No magic, manifest or latent, vibrates within them. Instead, in all of these self-proclaimed realistic stories, "reality" is understood as the opposite of imagination and fantasy, as if childhood were a dream from which children must be awakened—when, in fact, reality is not divisible from imagining, for children. But in these books children's imagination is regarded as something that must be tamed, monitored, barred. The child protagonist, while presented with the darkest and most upsetting situations imaginable, is denied what in real childhood would exist in abundance: recourse to fantasy" (9) 
-Problem Books are Hopeless 
" Some—many—are downright depressing, so that even if the writing is vibrant, the story told is unpleasant, weighty. Others are so sensationalistic as to read like dopey soap operas, pure and simple" (7)
-Problem Books do not represent realistically - eg, children tend to emotionally detached 
“Children’s books often tell us much more about the image of the ideal child that societal would like to produce than they do about real children” (Feinburg 11).

-Children's Books are what society wants children to be like 
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