Comments on: >I don’t need a story tonight, but thanks. http://www.hbook.com/2009/01/blogs/read-roger/i-dont-need-a-story-tonight-but-thanks/ Publications about books for children and young adults Tue, 14 May 2013 17:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/01/blogs/read-roger/i-dont-need-a-story-tonight-but-thanks/#comment-7298 Anonymous Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:20:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3224#comment-7298 >Jimmy,<br/><br/>I think what makes here scary are the words "instead of." If she had said "in addition to" or "sometimes," then, eh. <br/><br/>Probably also scarier if you've ever gone through a slush pile. >Jimmy,

I think what makes here scary are the words “instead of.” If she had said “in addition to” or “sometimes,” then, eh.

Probably also scarier if you’ve ever gone through a slush pile.

]]> By: jimmyprell http://www.hbook.com/2009/01/blogs/read-roger/i-dont-need-a-story-tonight-but-thanks/#comment-7297 jimmyprell Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:54:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3224#comment-7297 >Sorry to comment late, but I have no problem at all with the mother who enjoys making up her own stories with her children. In fact, I think it's great. And I don't see it as being ant-book at all. A control freak? Because she expressed a desire to control content? As a parent, I'm always "controlling of content" delivered to my children, ages 15, 8, and 8 -- in books, TV, movies. Remember that the woman professes to love books. She's calling on people to use their imaginations, to spend time thinking up and discussing stories with children, getting them to respond creatively. I just don't get what makes her scary. >Sorry to comment late, but I have no problem at all with the mother who enjoys making up her own stories with her children. In fact, I think it’s great. And I don’t see it as being ant-book at all. A control freak? Because she expressed a desire to control content? As a parent, I’m always “controlling of content” delivered to my children, ages 15, 8, and 8 — in books, TV, movies. Remember that the woman professes to love books. She’s calling on people to use their imaginations, to spend time thinking up and discussing stories with children, getting them to respond creatively. I just don’t get what makes her scary.

]]> By: Angie http://www.hbook.com/2009/01/blogs/read-roger/i-dont-need-a-story-tonight-but-thanks/#comment-7296 Angie Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:46:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3224#comment-7296 >Didn't most children authors started out telling their own stories to children? If I am wrong, I believe the author of Peter Pan got his story from the kids when they made up stories together but I could be wrong.<br/><br/>Anyway, This girl isn't her mother so you have nothing to worry about unless she has custody. <br/><br/>oh and I don't see the harm of fairy tales at all (At least most of them anyway). They can teach children a lesson about life. Like Red Riding Hood could teach a child not to talk and give out information to strangers (as Red Riding hood told the wolf where her grandma lives)<br/><br/>~~deafgirl with bad writing skills (I was born severe, nearly profound deaf, since birth so please excuse my grammars) >Didn’t most children authors started out telling their own stories to children? If I am wrong, I believe the author of Peter Pan got his story from the kids when they made up stories together but I could be wrong.

Anyway, This girl isn’t her mother so you have nothing to worry about unless she has custody.

oh and I don’t see the harm of fairy tales at all (At least most of them anyway). They can teach children a lesson about life. Like Red Riding Hood could teach a child not to talk and give out information to strangers (as Red Riding hood told the wolf where her grandma lives)

~~deafgirl with bad writing skills (I was born severe, nearly profound deaf, since birth so please excuse my grammars)

]]> By: Roger Sutton http://www.hbook.com/2009/01/blogs/read-roger/i-dont-need-a-story-tonight-but-thanks/#comment-7295 Roger Sutton Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:55:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3224#comment-7295 >I'm all for making up stories; I was just wondering just whose needs were being met by the storytelling experiences recounted by the commenter.<br/><br/>That's a whole huge issue, though--witness the number of picture books devoted to telling parents how much their children need them. >I’m all for making up stories; I was just wondering just whose needs were being met by the storytelling experiences recounted by the commenter.

That’s a whole huge issue, though–witness the number of picture books devoted to telling parents how much their children need them.

]]> By: Rachael http://www.hbook.com/2009/01/blogs/read-roger/i-dont-need-a-story-tonight-but-thanks/#comment-7294 Rachael Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:29:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3224#comment-7294 >Just to stand up for the oral tradition here, I use both. My kid gets a book and a made-up story every night. I'm also an occasional amateur storyteller-about-town. You wouldn't believe the number of kids (and adults) I run into who are amazed that stories can be told without a book handy. It's also interesting how many adults are afraid to tell stories because they "won't get it right." Hey, if you can't remember how it goes, change it! That's what beggars and nursemaids (thanks Jane Y.) have been doing for, like, ever. >Just to stand up for the oral tradition here, I use both. My kid gets a book and a made-up story every night. I’m also an occasional amateur storyteller-about-town. You wouldn’t believe the number of kids (and adults) I run into who are amazed that stories can be told without a book handy. It’s also interesting how many adults are afraid to tell stories because they “won’t get it right.” Hey, if you can’t remember how it goes, change it! That’s what beggars and nursemaids (thanks Jane Y.) have been doing for, like, ever.

]]> By: Kelly Fineman http://www.hbook.com/2009/01/blogs/read-roger/i-dont-need-a-story-tonight-but-thanks/#comment-7293 Kelly Fineman Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:31:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3224#comment-7293 >Ooh - that commenter IS scary. Far scarier than dead mothers and stepmothers. More like the Other Mother. >Ooh – that commenter IS scary. Far scarier than dead mothers and stepmothers. More like the Other Mother.

]]> By: EM http://www.hbook.com/2009/01/blogs/read-roger/i-dont-need-a-story-tonight-but-thanks/#comment-7292 EM Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:24:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3224#comment-7292 >I confess I do make up bedtime stories for my kids sometimes, but they usually run along the lines of "Once upon a time there was a little girl named Eleanor who would not sit still to get her hair brushed so she was eaten by a bear. The end."<br/><br/>They don't go over as well as a good old CHARLOTTE'S WEB . . . >I confess I do make up bedtime stories for my kids sometimes, but they usually run along the lines of “Once upon a time there was a little girl named Eleanor who would not sit still to get her hair brushed so she was eaten by a bear. The end.”

They don’t go over as well as a good old CHARLOTTE’S WEB . . .

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/01/blogs/read-roger/i-dont-need-a-story-tonight-but-thanks/#comment-7291 Anonymous Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3224#comment-7291 >Don't they all live happily ever after! (That's only in Fairy Take and not real life!) <br/><br/>I found it interesting that an American book is the number one Bedtime book chosen by British mums and dads. >Don’t they all live happily ever after! (That’s only in Fairy Take and not real life!)

I found it interesting that an American book is the number one Bedtime book chosen by British mums and dads.

]]> By: janeyolen http://www.hbook.com/2009/01/blogs/read-roger/i-dont-need-a-story-tonight-but-thanks/#comment-7290 janeyolen Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:55:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3224#comment-7290 >Whoa--before we get our collective knickers in a twist (what do you think of THAT, dear Roger?)let me remind you. Fairy tales have ALWAYS been retold. When speaking of the old ballads (and it is true of the fairy tales, too) Sir Francis James Child mentioned the three categories of tellers: "the blind beggar, the nursery maid, and the clerk." Meaning the blind beggar to stand for performers who change stories as they judge the audience who will be paying them; the nursery maid making moral judgments about what her charges should and shouldn't hear (sound familiar); and the clerk writing the stories down and changing them to suit him/herself.<br/><br/>Jane >Whoa–before we get our collective knickers in a twist (what do you think of THAT, dear Roger?)let me remind you. Fairy tales have ALWAYS been retold. When speaking of the old ballads (and it is true of the fairy tales, too) Sir Francis James Child mentioned the three categories of tellers: “the blind beggar, the nursery maid, and the clerk.” Meaning the blind beggar to stand for performers who change stories as they judge the audience who will be paying them; the nursery maid making moral judgments about what her charges should and shouldn’t hear (sound familiar); and the clerk writing the stories down and changing them to suit him/herself.

Jane

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/01/blogs/read-roger/i-dont-need-a-story-tonight-but-thanks/#comment-7289 Anonymous Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:53:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3224#comment-7289 >surely that personwas fishing for an offer from a publisher or an agent >surely that personwas fishing for an offer from a publisher or an agent

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