Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story to their children.And they must have 1 how difficult it is to write a 2 children’s book.Either the author has aimed too 3 , so that the children can’t follow What is in his(or more often, her)story, 4 the story seems to be talking to the readers.
The best children’s books are neither very difficult nor very simple, and 5 both the 6 who hears the story and the adult who 7 it.Unfortunately, there are in fact 8 books like this, 9 the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not 10 to solve.
This may be why many of books regarded as 11 of children’s literature were in tact written for 12 .“Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland” is perhaps the most 13 of this.
Children, left for themselves.often 14 the worst possible interest in literature.Just leave a child in bookshop or 15 and he will 16 willingly choose the books written in an imaginative way, or have a look at most children’s comics, full of the stories and jokes which are the 17 of teachers and right-thinking parents.
Perhaps we parents should stop trying to brainwash children into 18 our taste in literature.After all children and adults are so 19 that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the 20 books.So I suppose we’ll just have to compromise over that bedtime story.
Perhaps the most interesting person I have ever met in my life is an Italian professor of philosophy who teaches at the University of Pisa. 1 I last met this man eight years ago, I have not forgotten his 2 qualities.First of all, I respected his 3 to teaching.Because his lectures were always well-prepared and clearly delivered, students crowded into his classroom.His followers liked the fact that he 4 what he taught.Furthermore, he could be counted on to explain his ideas in an 5 way, introducing such aids to 6 as oil paintings, music, and guest lecturers.Once he 7 sang a song in class in order to make a point clear. 8 , I admired the fact that he would talk to students outside the classroom or talk with them 9 the telephone.Drinking coffee in the café, he would easily make friends with students.Sometimes he would 10 a student to a game of chess. 11 , he would join student groups to discuss a variety of 12 : agriculture, diving and mathematics and so on.Many young people visited him in his office for 13 on their studies; others came to his home for social evenings.Finally, I was 14 by his lively sense of humor.He believed that no lesson is a success 15 , during it, the students and the professor 16 at least one loud 17 .Through his sense of humor, he made learning more 18 and more lasting.If it is 19 that life makes a wise man smile and a foolish man cry, 20 my friend is indeed a wise man.