This came through last week in the Publisher’s Weekly Children’s email newsletter: Childrens Bookshelf talks with Cindy Eagan
“I feel these books help girls get through the hard times of peer pressure and insecurity. Each series has a main bitchy character who is probably the most insecure of them all. Teenagers are all reading Bridget Jones’s Diary and The Devil Wears Prada and watching Sex and the City. They’re worldly and sophisticated. These books give them characters their own age who are going through the same things they are. And they don’t talk down to their readers.”
So instead of having them read books where the older girls are drinking and having sex, we now have given the 13 and 14 year-old girls books where characters their own age are drinking and having sex. Hmmm. Sounds like some improvement.
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