Posted by PeterH on September 18, 2006 at 22:26:21 from 81.153.238.49 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Hotting up the past posted by andyb on September 18, 2006 at 22:01:29:
I would hate my daughters to point to something like that that and tell me that it proves that Ransome is not suitable for them. - Adam
But Adam, wouldn't your daughters simply read the book and find out whether they liked it or not? As a child I never read the blurbs at the back, and I still don't - I'd never noticed the Lehmann comment before. Would any spirited child be put off by the idea that a book was not 'suitable' for them? Quite the opposite, in my experience!
discussion of gender in AR seems both more interesting and relevant than literal hot water.
Well I'm certainly with you there, Andy . . .