#a lot of people are just like wildly anti intellectual and only/read watch things that are absolutely lowest common denominator and it's

[alliluyevas]

there are a lot of people who trash talk the newbery award because it’s “not what kids actually want to read” and particularly because a lot of newbery winners are allegedly dark/depressing which is frankly sooooo embarrassing because like. children’s books CAN be intricate and deep and well-written and compelling and often the newbery award is genuinely a good measure of quality (there are definitely some books that won that are very much a product of their time etc) but there are absolutely books that have very much stood the test of time and there’s a reason why bridge to terabithia is still read and a lot of its contemporary books are not.