Claire
Master Chef
Which books that were probably considered children's books when we were young do you think are not?
I tried to read Through the Looking Glass/Alice in Wonderland when I was a child, and I was precocious when it came to reading, and didn't get it until a Jr High school teacher told me it was written by a man under the influence of drugs. When I read it in my 20s, after a marriage to a drug addict, I finally understood the darned book.
There are many so-called children's books from the 1800s that are somewhere between really scary (not fun scary), incomprehensible, or simply something you need to be an adult to understand. I can think of a few more, but am curious what others of you think.
I tried to read Through the Looking Glass/Alice in Wonderland when I was a child, and I was precocious when it came to reading, and didn't get it until a Jr High school teacher told me it was written by a man under the influence of drugs. When I read it in my 20s, after a marriage to a drug addict, I finally understood the darned book.
There are many so-called children's books from the 1800s that are somewhere between really scary (not fun scary), incomprehensible, or simply something you need to be an adult to understand. I can think of a few more, but am curious what others of you think.