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Let Kids Read Trash By Bob Swift Knight Ridder
An essay argues that exposing children to popular fiction builds a lifelong love of reading. The author recalls reading adventures from Tarzan to Doc Savage, Mundy and Poe, noting parents and libraries shaped taste and that youngsters later discover more serious literature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Endowment For the Humanities
Moby Dick
India
Grant
Lee
Chickamauga
Grandpa Barrow
Tom Swift
Bomba
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan
John Carter
Pellucidar
Earth
Venus
Carson Napier
Sax Rohmer
Nayland Smith
Fu Manchu
Booth Tarkington
Penrod
the Shadow
Talbot Mundy
Mundy
A. Conan Doyle
Rudyard Kipling
Kim
Jules Verne
H. G. Wells
Jack London
Herman Melville
Hawthorne
Doctor Dolittle
Winnie the Pooh
Freddie the Pig
Doc Savage
Conan the Barbarian
Plato
Louis L’amour
Thomas Mann
Agatha Christie
Sartre
Edgar Allen Poe
Saul Bello
Shakespeare
Hemingway
Kipling
Zen
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bomba the
Jungle Boy
Neitzsche