You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.” A hackneyed, worn-out idea isn’t hackneyed and worn out to them.” Well-meaning adults, he continued, can easily kill a child’s love of reading: “Stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21 st-century equivalents of Victorian ‘improving’ literature. They can find the stories they need to, and they bring themselves to stories. Fiction is a “gateway drug” to reading, Gaiman said. “I don’t think there is such a thing as a bad book for children,” he argued, adding that it was “snobbery and … foolishness” to suggest that a certain author or particular genre might be a baleful influence upon young reading minds-be it comic books or the works of R. In the lecture, which was reprinted in the Guardian, Gaiman came out in favor of what might be called the “just so long as they’re reading” camp. Sally Jackson | Travis Stoll | Connor Stoll | Mrs.About a year ago, the novelist Neil Gaiman delivered a lecture at the Barbican, in London, on behalf of the Reading Agency, a not-for-profit organization that promotes literacy and reading for pleasure among children and adults.
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There are trading cards of Luke, Hyperion, Hestia, Grover, Athena, Zeus, Poseidon, Percy, and Annabeth. When opened, it has the trading cards in little pockets. When looking at it another way, it shows a picture of Kampê, Morpheus, Grover, and Athena. It has a hologram, when looking at it one way, there are pictures of Percy, Poseidon, Ares, and Zeus. The cover looks like the picture to the right. This novelty companion to the best-selling series comes complete with trading cards, full-color diagrams, and maps, all packaged in a handy, "manual size" POB with a crisp, magnetic flap enclosure. It's the hand book no half-blood should be without: a fully illustrated, in-depth guide to gods, monsters, and all things Percy. The description gave The Ultimate Guide:
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