Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read.
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You don't need to have kids to write a good book for kids. I don't want my kids to see themselves in my books. Their lives should be their lives.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
I don't think kids have a problem reading books meant for adults; the problem is on the other side of the fence, a misconception of what one kind of literature is 'supposed' to be, perceived to be, as opposed to another: if it's for kids, it can't be any good; it's got to have been dumbed down and/or sweetened up.
Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.
As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.