QI Children's books

Jenny · 43569. Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:31 pm

My husband is currently reading Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction, but I'm not sure I'd class those as children's books since Adrian grew up.

wgboy · 43594. Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:55 pm

Why's that?

Rory Gilmore · 43597. Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:57 pm

Does it not all get a bit political or something?

Jenny · 43680. Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:06 pm

It does, Rory, and I think those are the things that maybe don't interest younger teenagers so much.

Rory Gilmore · 43807. Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:34 am

No, neither do I. Younger teenagers can't vote and by the time they're my age they've all turned into lefties. It would have happened here, but me and Robbie sufficiently discouraged it by using terms like ''bolshy'' and ''red'' as insults.

wgboy · 94145. Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:16 am

I read a book once it involed an RPG and strange things happened in the real world. I know one of the characters was called Shel Lookbehind but I can't remember anything else. I've tried googling it but have come up with nothing. Any help as to what the book is called or the author would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Tas · 94161. Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:02 am

wgboy · 94178. Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:33 am

Role Playing Game. Note the reference to the 'real world'.

=)

Tas · 94308. Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:05 am

Well, given current politics, Rocket Propelled grenade seems a reasonable interpretation of your post.

:-)

Tas

samivel · 94316. Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:27 am

Indeed. Or Random Preventative Genocide.

Tas · 94319. Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:52 am

L, as you like to say, OL.

:-)

Tas

janice1234 · 105515. Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:16 am

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barbados · 105557. Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:53 am

I regularly sell secondhand books at bootsales, and it's refreshing to know that although Horrid Henry and Tracy Beaker are the favourites I seem to sell out of Enid Blyton quicker than I can get them.

Jenny · 105761. Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:53 pm

Why does Janice's post seem suspiciously spammy to me? And by 'true to the biblical account' we presumably are not teaching the kiddies that the story of the creation and the flood as outlined in Genesis are literally true rather than a very interesting metaphor/legend*?

*delete as you think appropriate.

Jenny · 105763. Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:55 pm

And here is something that is unashamedly an advertisement on behalf of a friend of mine, so feel free to ignore this post if that irritates you. My friend Sarah Thompson has just published a fabulous YA book called The Secret of the Rose, set in Elizabethan London and starring Christopher Marlowe among other characters. I am, of course, biased, but I think it's a great read. Not sure if it's published in England yet though.

http://www.secretoftherose.com/

I think it would make a fabulous movie.