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Read A Lot - Poems, Prose, Stories, Newspapers, Anything. Read Books And Poems That You Think You Will Like And Some That You Think Might Not Be For You. You Might Be Surprised.

Our Great Problem, Is That Children Now Know Whatever They Want To Know - At The Press Of A Button They Can Discover All Horrors Of The Adult World. They Know Very Early On That The World Is Sometimes A Very Dark, Difficult And Complex Place, And The Literature They Read Must Reflect That. Otherwise We're Just Entertaining Them To Pass The Time.

Wars Become History All Too Soon And Are Forgotten All Too Soon As Well, Before The Lessons Can Be Learned.

Books That Kids Read Should Be About What Is Going On In The World.

Any Story You Write About War, Or Film You Make About War, Is Bound To Be Political Whether You Like It Or Not.