A book that grown-ups love but most children hate

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	• Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson HarperTrophy, 1987 - 144 pages average customer review:based on 804 reviews view larger image
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Bridge to Terabithia

Although written with a little too much vernacular for my taste the story is wonderful for readers of all ages.

Not like the movie

I bought this book for a granddaughter. I always read them first so I can discuss them with her later. I confess that I didn't see the movie, but am going on the movie trailers, which indicate some really wild imaginery creatures. The book hints at some action between the two characters and some inhabitants of Terabithia, but doesn't get very specific. I'm sure the movie was great, but it surely did stretch the text.
Bottom line, if you saw the movie, don't expect the same action in the book.
This is a wonderful story and a great message, though.
Good book.

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A book that grown-ups love but most children hate

This is a beautifully written and moving book. Adults gave it the Newberry, and the touching story has caused many, many teachers to assign it to their classes. As a work of fiction written in a style for juveniles but for an adult audience, it is a complete success.

But by the vast majority of children assigned to read it WHO ARE ACTUALLY IN THE READING LEVEL AGE RANGE (7-9), this book is viewed with either loathing or confusion. As a child, I felt that it was going for a cheap emotional payoff. Most of my classmates were either baffled or simply hated it with the passion that only the young can have. It wasn't entertaining, moving, poignant, sweet, or significant. To them, it was simply offensive.

It isn't as if the children don't understand about death. But death--REAL death--has no place in children's games. If people die, it is only as characters, and then the next round, they spring to life again. Death is something that happens in the real world, but children shut it out of their idealized make-believe. In their pretend world, good triumphs over evil--however often this isn't the case in the real world.

A Bridge to Terabithia breaks all of those childhood rules. And so children, as a whole, heartily reject it.

This is a lovely book to read as an angst-ridden preteen or adolescent or as an adult. It is not a book that is at all enjoyed by the vast majority of children. It is one of a number of books, like The Velveteen Rabbit, that adults think children ought to like rather than what they actually do care for.

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Amazing

My name is Karla. I don't really like to read. But my friend at church talked me into a book club. This was the first book that was chosen. I loved it! I had a hard time putting it down.I loved the true friendship and acceptance of the two main characters. Since reading this book I have read four others in a six week period. This was a great book to get me hooked on reading again. Thanks!

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