Reddit reviews The BFG
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Reddit reviews The BFGWe found 5 Reddit comments about The BFG. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
No - Big Friendly Giant
Big Friendly Giant?
>Do the kids value the books more by owning them, even though they ultimately only get a few a year?
What if those few books are the only ones you own? The meaning behind book ownership is proportional to the number of books you own. More than half of the students come from low income families.
For my parents' generation growing up, my aunt has told me how she wrote her name inside every book and treasured the few she owned. That idea, of claiming a book as your own, survives today. Kids still write their names in books.
This week was our grand re-opening after a month-long overhaul of the room. A teacher told me about a first grader new to the school who began crying as the teacher explained about their upcoming visit. The student said, "I don't deserve a book." I don't know her background, other than that she has a troubled home. You do deserve a book. You've earned this book. This bookstore exists because you are worth it.
>What sort of impact does this idea have compared to just having a library?
Our school library is essential for obvious reasons. A kid gets far more books from our library than the bookstore. Kids don't have to fret that the last copy of The BFG is gone and it's unknown when another copy will come along. The BFG will be in next week; would you like to reserve it?
Last year, there was a battle over parent funding of the library (which is sad, but yes, parent groups now raise money to cover basic salaries). I vowed to stop the bookstore if the library closed, which kind of shook things up. The right people got involved and we still have a library for 4 hours a day, just enough for every class to visit every week and to be open during lunch recess.
> Does it influence the parents in the area at all?
Influence how? The parents who have seen the bookstore like it.
One kinder family this year chose our school over another because their daughter is a book lover and she wanted the school that gives away books. That's important because the reform movement is always thinking up new ways to draw students away from traditional public schools. The bookstore exists only because we have empty classrooms that were once filled with students (e.g., no empty classroom = no place for a bookstore).
Don't feel like you need to 'challenge' him with hard stuff. If it's interesting, he'll read it. A few books I remember reading between age 10 and 14 that were enjoyable were:
A lot of my friends at the time loved the Redwall books by Brain Jacques. I didn't get into them, but your son might.
http://www.amazon.com/The-BFG-Roald-Dahl/dp/0142410381
It's possible I have my books mixed up, I'll have to check my copy for those lines, LOL