I certainly agree with you that it's "easier to forgive", but that's simply because writing a childrens book is *easier*, full stop; that seems axiomatic to me.
It doesn't to me! Of course there are shoddy children's books, just as there are shoddy books for adults. But good children's or teen fiction HAS to be well-crafted, and the best of these contain some of the finest writing I've ever seen.
I do, of course, have a horse in this race; I'm a teen librarian and an aspiring YA/middlegrade writer.
What many of us think of books 1-3 is that they were "edited". Books 4-7, and especially books 6 and 7, don't seem to have been.
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Date: 2011-09-22 04:04 pm (UTC)It doesn't to me! Of course there are shoddy children's books, just as there are shoddy books for adults. But good children's or teen fiction HAS to be well-crafted, and the best of these contain some of the finest writing I've ever seen.
I do, of course, have a horse in this race; I'm a teen librarian and an aspiring YA/middlegrade writer.
What many of us think of books 1-3 is that they were "edited". Books 4-7, and especially books 6 and 7, don't seem to have been.