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Chapter one of our text, “Children’s Literature Briefly” highlighted the importance of nurturing young readers. The above quote in particular brought to my attention how much adults can unwittingly deter young readers from seeing reading as enjoyable rather than a means to an end, encouraging efferent reading more than aesthetic reading. The balance between these two types of reading is something I personally struggled with as a voracious reader in elementary school. My father meant well, but he used to stress me out by randomly giving pop quizzes on the books I was reading for pleasure if they were books he had already read, which were a lot of them since they were in our home library. With these random quizzes in mind I would often find myself looking over my shoulder, trying to get through the chapters as quickly as possible so my dad wouldn’t have time to come ask questions. …show more content…

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