Recreational Reading, children’s literature and adultness, Or, why the children’s literature community suddenly hates the editor of the Horn Book

Lately, my real life has been a little crazy, so I’ve been behind in my blog life. Of course, the day I return to the kid’s lit blogosphere is the day that everyone’s totally up in arms and crazy about something that’s happened.

Last Wednesday, Roger Sutton, editor of the Horn Book (the magazine for children’s literature) said on his blog,

Whatever whoever chooses to read is their business, of course, but adults whose taste in recreational reading ends with the YA novel need to grow up.

You can imagine the outrage. Tea Cozy has an excellent post. As does MotherReader. As do a million other blogs, all railing against Roger.

I, however, totally agree with him.