''...if I were sitting by the pool again, in search of distraction, I would pick the old Stratemeyer formula over the new one. Stratemeyer understood, in the end, that children want their heroes to have an air of mystery. A young reader isn't trying to discover the ways in which she's ordinary; she's trying to discover just how to banish the shadows so that the afternoon lasts a little longer.''.''..if I were sitting by the pool again, in search of distraction, I would pick the old Stratemeyer formula over the new one. Stratemeyer understood, in the end, that children want their heroes to have an air of mystery. A young reader isn't trying to discover the ways in which she's ordinary; she's trying to discover just how to banish the shadows so that the afternoon lasts a little longer.'' -- Meghan O'Rourke ''The New Yorker'' (11/08/2004) --This text refers to an alternate edition. |
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