WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.899 This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm 00:00:01.899 --> 00:00:07.879 an analyzer. Welcome to my kid -lit or children's 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:10.759 book audit. I'm going to go through all the books 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:14.509 that I have listened to. And I'm going to talk 00:00:14.509 --> 00:00:16.429 about them as far as the ones that are for kids. 00:00:16.690 --> 00:00:18.429 On here, if you're watching the video version 00:00:18.429 --> 00:00:20.010 of this, you'll see that there are white squares. 00:00:20.149 --> 00:00:21.469 Those are blanking out things I just didn't want 00:00:21.469 --> 00:00:24.109 to talk about for whatever reason. Either I haven't 00:00:24.109 --> 00:00:25.929 read them or they don't fit with the genre of 00:00:25.929 --> 00:00:28.670 the kids' books that I'm talking about. And I 00:00:28.670 --> 00:00:31.809 believe in all -ages family books. That's kind 00:00:31.809 --> 00:00:36.369 of my favorite thing to read. Yeah, I like sharing 00:00:36.369 --> 00:00:38.090 that stuff with my kids, and I like reading it 00:00:38.090 --> 00:00:40.310 myself because I don't need things to be horribly 00:00:40.310 --> 00:00:44.219 gundarb. grim dark of, you know, violent or anything 00:00:44.219 --> 00:00:47.159 like that to enjoy a story. I enjoy kind of like 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:49.799 classic timeless tales, and I want to start talking 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:51.579 about all of them here. So I'll be as brief as 00:00:51.579 --> 00:00:53.679 I can, but some of them I really loved, some 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:56.000 of them I hated, and I will let you know which 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:59.179 ones fall in. So here we have Louisa May Alcott. 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:01.759 This is in alphabetical order. from audible i 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:04.540 have all of these uh screenshots and then i have 00:01:04.540 --> 00:01:06.519 a couple other sources one is the library library 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:08.900 app and another is a liberbox so i'll go through 00:01:08.900 --> 00:01:10.099 all of them i'll let you know as i'm changing 00:01:10.099 --> 00:01:12.719 what what is there so here i have louise may 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:14.540 all cuts little women which is a fantastic book 00:01:14.540 --> 00:01:16.599 it's one of the best books i've ever read it's 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:20.400 like in my top 10 top 20 i'm not sure but it's 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:23.219 definitely up there very very high um i absolutely 00:01:23.219 --> 00:01:26.920 love this the The book, it's fantastic, and it's 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:29.439 very well written, and it's very meaningful and 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:32.799 beautiful and charming and wonderful. Next, I 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.219 have The Chronicles of Bredane, most of it shown 00:01:35.219 --> 00:01:37.640 here. I did not read The Foundling and the other 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:39.219 short stories of Bredane. I recently acquired 00:01:39.219 --> 00:01:41.040 that because I thought, hey, why not? I've read 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:43.099 the series, now I can check these things out. 00:01:43.140 --> 00:01:44.819 I hope they're, like, bonus material that give 00:01:44.819 --> 00:01:46.239 you more insights into different things that 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:48.599 are happening in Bredane. I love the Bredane 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:50.159 series. I think Lord Alexander did an amazing 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:53.680 job. I think he was probably inspired by... Tolkien's 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:56.120 Lord of the Rings and said let me take this and 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.180 do it in a different way That's maybe more approachable 00:01:59.180 --> 00:02:01.659 more consumable to a modern audience that always 00:02:01.659 --> 00:02:05.379 keeps things kind of not necessarily light -hearted, 00:02:05.459 --> 00:02:09.659 but not so heavy and and bogged down that you're 00:02:10.770 --> 00:02:12.629 not wanting to read or forcing yourself to read. 00:02:12.689 --> 00:02:14.990 It was always a joy to listen to these books. 00:02:15.289 --> 00:02:17.330 And even when things were difficult and were 00:02:17.330 --> 00:02:19.849 very much in a tough place for Tarn and the others 00:02:19.849 --> 00:02:23.289 of the Fellowship of the Pig, it was okay. It 00:02:23.289 --> 00:02:25.530 was bearable. And it was bearable darkness. And 00:02:25.530 --> 00:02:27.750 it was a bitterness that made the sweet moments 00:02:27.750 --> 00:02:29.270 all the sweeter and all the more beautiful and 00:02:29.270 --> 00:02:30.889 all the more wonderful. So that's what I have 00:02:30.889 --> 00:02:33.129 to say about those. These are all... All six 00:02:33.129 --> 00:02:34.689 of these are all, you know, everything here. 00:02:34.789 --> 00:02:36.330 The Five Chronicles of the Danes and Little Women 00:02:36.330 --> 00:02:38.909 are all amazing books. They're in my top. They're 00:02:38.909 --> 00:02:41.550 in my top. Next by J .M. Barrie is Peter Pan. 00:02:41.990 --> 00:02:44.490 I absolutely love Peter Pan. It's very interesting. 00:02:44.629 --> 00:02:47.669 It's dark. I did a whole chapter by chapter series 00:02:47.669 --> 00:02:51.449 of it where I reacted to each chapter. And then 00:02:51.449 --> 00:02:53.490 I did a full review of it. I absolutely love 00:02:53.490 --> 00:02:56.509 Peter Pan. It's beautiful. I'd like to play in 00:02:56.509 --> 00:02:58.250 that world and write in that world myself at 00:02:58.250 --> 00:03:00.409 some point, but I, I fear I lack the skill at 00:03:00.409 --> 00:03:03.349 present to do that. So, um, maybe one day it's 00:03:03.349 --> 00:03:05.710 something I'd like, I could do. Um, I mean, of 00:03:05.710 --> 00:03:07.090 course it's something I could do, but maybe it's 00:03:07.090 --> 00:03:08.729 something I will do. Um, but yeah, I absolutely 00:03:08.729 --> 00:03:09.969 love it. It's an amazing book. It's beautiful. 00:03:10.229 --> 00:03:13.110 It's not haunting, but yeah, it's a very emotional, 00:03:13.189 --> 00:03:18.090 very like deep book. And the, you wouldn't necessarily 00:03:18.090 --> 00:03:20.650 know that, uh, until you read it and then you 00:03:20.650 --> 00:03:22.770 pretty quickly realize, oh, this is more than. 00:03:23.310 --> 00:03:25.629 what it was. And every adaptation kind of takes 00:03:25.629 --> 00:03:27.810 different shades of it, like Hook, like the original 00:03:27.810 --> 00:03:32.469 Disney Peter Pan. What other thing? I feel like 00:03:32.469 --> 00:03:34.590 I've seen one other Peter Pan adaptation and 00:03:34.590 --> 00:03:36.930 it's like the book is so much better than all 00:03:36.930 --> 00:03:39.449 of them. And yet each of them contains like a 00:03:39.449 --> 00:03:40.889 shade of the truth of what Peter Pan is. And 00:03:40.889 --> 00:03:43.009 it's really, really interesting to me. So Jane 00:03:43.009 --> 00:03:45.430 Berry did fabulous work on Peter Pan. It's an 00:03:45.430 --> 00:03:49.370 amazing book. Next. Oh, and also, like, you can 00:03:49.370 --> 00:03:51.389 see here on this next page, I have this Terry 00:03:51.389 --> 00:03:53.990 Brooks Star Wars Episode I novelization. It's 00:03:53.990 --> 00:03:56.430 there. I didn't bother covering it up because 00:03:56.430 --> 00:03:58.310 it kind of gives you my taste. I do like Star 00:03:58.310 --> 00:04:00.629 Wars, the original trilogy, the original saga, 00:04:00.849 --> 00:04:03.310 the six movies. I like them a lot. And then there's, 00:04:03.330 --> 00:04:04.569 like, a business book here, which you can ignore 00:04:04.569 --> 00:04:06.490 because, you know, whatever. It's just something 00:04:06.490 --> 00:04:09.909 that was on my Audible list. But, yeah, Trapped 00:04:09.909 --> 00:04:11.689 in a Video Game. It's a very good series by Dustin 00:04:11.689 --> 00:04:13.930 Brady. It was a lot of fun. It was very captivating. 00:04:13.969 --> 00:04:17.290 It's very, like, you know. like hip new fresh 00:04:17.290 --> 00:04:21.149 very marketable very like on brand for a modern 00:04:21.149 --> 00:04:23.209 day audience and it's it's very much like modern 00:04:23.209 --> 00:04:25.670 day you know kid lit or modern day you know middle 00:04:25.670 --> 00:04:31.490 grade book and uh it feels like that and some 00:04:31.490 --> 00:04:34.129 of that i feel like makes it lose its its timelessness 00:04:34.129 --> 00:04:35.569 but then again it's trapped in a video game i 00:04:35.569 --> 00:04:37.670 don't know how a story like that could be timeless 00:04:37.670 --> 00:04:40.639 although perhaps a book I'm working on right 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:42.959 now about a kid who gets trapped in a video game 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:45.000 will be timeless. I don't know. We'll see. Or 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.600 maybe it's dated and that's fine. But yeah, I 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:48.920 really enjoyed the series. It was a five book 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:51.959 series. It got surprisingly serious and dark 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:55.319 at the end of it. And yeah, overall, it was a 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:57.120 very entertaining, very enjoyable series. I really 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:58.660 liked it. It was in first person, which was weird. 00:04:58.740 --> 00:05:01.420 I usually hate first person and can't stand it, 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.319 but I was committed to checking it out regardless 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:08.089 of that for my own. well one for the entertainment 00:05:08.089 --> 00:05:10.170 value of it and also for research purposes because 00:05:10.170 --> 00:05:12.610 like i said i have a book myself that i'm working 00:05:12.610 --> 00:05:14.709 on that is also about a kid in a video game so 00:05:14.709 --> 00:05:16.050 i thought i need to check out the market here 00:05:16.050 --> 00:05:17.990 and i actually really enjoyed it and it was a 00:05:17.990 --> 00:05:21.769 lot of fun um so yeah i have that to say about 00:05:21.769 --> 00:05:29.209 that uh next the secret garden by uh oh no francis 00:05:29.209 --> 00:05:31.889 francis hudson burnett the secret garden is an 00:05:31.889 --> 00:05:34.769 amazing book Again, like Little Women, oddly, 00:05:34.889 --> 00:05:37.209 it's a domestic drama type book, but it's amazing. 00:05:37.350 --> 00:05:42.149 It's easily in my top 10, which is fantastic. 00:05:43.389 --> 00:05:45.449 You know, again, top 10, top 20. It's an amazing 00:05:45.449 --> 00:05:47.329 book. I absolutely loved it. It was beautiful. 00:05:47.449 --> 00:05:50.290 It was meaningful. It was heartfelt. It was all 00:05:50.290 --> 00:05:54.649 the good things. Next, The Alchemist. The Alchemist 00:05:54.649 --> 00:05:59.100 by Paulo Coelho. I don't know if this is... kidlit 00:05:59.100 --> 00:06:01.660 or not. It's about a young man, but I feel like 00:06:01.660 --> 00:06:03.319 he's more like a, like, this is more like a YA 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:06.519 type of thing. He's probably closer to, uh, you 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:09.519 know, 18 or 16 or something like that, but it's 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.079 an absolutely beautiful story. And I think people 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:13.899 should read it to children. There's some like 00:06:13.899 --> 00:06:16.560 romance stuff in it, but it's almost like pining 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:19.199 for somebody far from a far idealized romance 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:22.480 kind of situation. So it's not really like, uh, 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:25.740 like he, he doesn't kiss anybody. Um, there's 00:06:25.740 --> 00:06:28.220 no, um, you know, love scenes or anything like 00:06:28.220 --> 00:06:31.560 that. Um, it's just, you know, there's a beautiful 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:33.980 woman or maybe, you know, I think he, well, anyway, 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:35.680 I think there is a kiss in the book, but it's 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:38.720 just like, it's stated as a fact. Um, and these 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:41.540 people are, you know, basically engaged at this 00:06:41.540 --> 00:06:44.759 point and it's understandable also like that 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:47.500 neither of them is deeply religious, uh, as far 00:06:47.500 --> 00:06:49.040 as we can tell. And it's, you know, kind of a 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:51.439 young people swept up in the moment kind of deal, 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:53.540 but still, I think it's a very child appropriate 00:06:53.540 --> 00:06:56.920 book. Um, and I think it's an amazing book. And 00:06:56.920 --> 00:06:58.959 I love it, and I've listened to it multiple times, 00:06:59.060 --> 00:07:03.480 and it's fabulous every single time. I happen 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:04.920 to like Larry Korea, but so far he hasn't written 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:08.379 anything for kids. See if that changes. Okay, 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:11.560 The NeverEnding Story is also fabulous. I loved 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:14.600 the movie as a kid, and the book, of course, 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:18.019 is way better, and it's quite an experience. 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:20.720 This is a top 20 as well. I should actually tally 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:22.779 up how many books I've read, because I've got, 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:25.000 you know... Lord of the Rings, Hobbit. Hobbit's 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:26.560 definitely better than Lord of the Rings. That's 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:29.620 four books right there. Silmarillion, I don't 00:07:29.620 --> 00:07:32.199 know. It's like a weird book. It's almost an 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:33.399 anthology, so I don't know if you can really 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:38.579 rate that against individual books. Anyway, I'm 00:07:38.579 --> 00:07:39.740 not going to go on and list all the books I've 00:07:39.740 --> 00:07:41.639 read, especially because I've got the 14... Well, 00:07:41.660 --> 00:07:43.720 I've got 14 books in a single series that would 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:46.600 kind of mess up the deal, so I won't go into 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:47.879 that. But yeah, Neverending Story by Michael 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:49.839 N., which was originally written in German, and 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:51.300 it was translated into English at some point, 00:07:51.339 --> 00:07:54.699 and it's a fantastic book. It's really good. 00:07:54.740 --> 00:07:56.959 It's very raw and very real in some ways, and 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:00.839 I really enjoyed it. Moving on. The Capture. 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:04.600 Okay, so this is from the Guardians of Gilhoul. 00:08:05.050 --> 00:08:07.569 and I will admit I have not listened to the entire 00:08:07.569 --> 00:08:09.430 series. I listened to part of the first book, 00:08:09.509 --> 00:08:11.569 so maybe it shouldn't be on here, but that part 00:08:11.569 --> 00:08:14.269 of the first book that I did read or listen to 00:08:14.269 --> 00:08:18.029 was very moving, very inspiring. I felt like 00:08:18.029 --> 00:08:19.949 I was transported to another world. She did a 00:08:19.949 --> 00:08:24.310 really good job, and I'm really impressed by 00:08:24.310 --> 00:08:25.990 it, and I'm excited to read that at some point 00:08:25.990 --> 00:08:28.970 later. The Stephen R. Lawhead books are definitely 00:08:28.970 --> 00:08:30.730 not written for children, and I wouldn't want... 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.159 kids reading the middle they're definitely adult 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:36.000 books so let's move on from them uh c .s lewis's 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.340 chronicles of narnia is absolutely fabulous i 00:08:38.340 --> 00:08:43.000 love it um it's almost like uh you know how i 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:46.059 described lloyd alexander taking what tolkien 00:08:46.059 --> 00:08:48.940 did and going farther and kind of elevating it 00:08:48.940 --> 00:08:52.019 in this interesting way um or i don't know making 00:08:52.019 --> 00:08:53.799 it more marketable you could say i feel like 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:55.820 lewis kind of like did a half step towards that 00:08:55.820 --> 00:08:57.960 because while tolkien took a very long time to 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:00.629 write his books and to uh you know, have them 00:09:00.629 --> 00:09:03.690 come out to release them and whatnot. Lewis wrote 00:09:03.690 --> 00:09:05.389 very quickly and he wrote in a very much more 00:09:05.389 --> 00:09:10.269 pop type of way. And it's very consumable, very 00:09:10.269 --> 00:09:14.009 fun, very much written for children, at children, 00:09:14.129 --> 00:09:17.220 but also. beyond children in an interesting way, 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:18.720 whereas I feel like The Hobbit is definitely 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:21.720 written for kids, and I don't feel like Lord 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:23.200 of the Rings is written for kids, but I still 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:25.740 have it here in this list. Speaking of maybe 00:09:25.740 --> 00:09:29.279 not being written for kids, while I really like 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:33.100 the space trilogy or the science fiction trilogy 00:09:33.100 --> 00:09:36.519 that Lewis did, Out of the Silent Planet, Paralandra, 00:09:36.620 --> 00:09:38.360 and that hideous strength, I don't know that 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:39.940 they're for children. The cover for Paralandra 00:09:39.940 --> 00:09:41.559 is definitely not for children. It has a naked 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:45.519 woman on it. You can say Eve, but still, I don't 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:47.440 think it's appropriate. Uh, but those were very 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:49.480 good books. I don't know. I'm going to say they're 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:51.899 not kidlit because like they're very adult, um, 00:09:52.179 --> 00:09:56.360 in some ways and they're, yeah, they're not kidlit. 00:09:56.379 --> 00:09:58.019 So I'm going to ignore them. I do have here just 00:09:58.019 --> 00:10:00.179 a little glimpse of, uh, Rony the Robber's Daughter 00:10:00.179 --> 00:10:04.299 by Astrid Lindgren. Uh, great book, very charming, 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:07.009 very enjoyable, very accessible. A little weird 00:10:07.009 --> 00:10:08.870 in that it just kind of ends and doesn't have 00:10:08.870 --> 00:10:10.769 a real solid ending, which is sad, which brings 00:10:10.769 --> 00:10:13.690 it down. It's not one of my top 20 books. It's 00:10:13.690 --> 00:10:16.809 somewhere on the list, but it's just there. But 00:10:16.809 --> 00:10:18.950 it's a good book. It's a good book. However, 00:10:19.169 --> 00:10:23.669 next I have George McDonald's The Princess and 00:10:23.669 --> 00:10:26.470 the Goblin, The Day Boy and the Night Girl, and 00:10:26.470 --> 00:10:30.389 The Wise Woman, or The Lost Princess or The Double 00:10:30.389 --> 00:10:33.879 Story. These three books. are absolutely fabulous. 00:10:33.980 --> 00:10:37.440 I love George McDonald's writing. I also have 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:40.899 from the library, I borrowed The Princess and 00:10:40.899 --> 00:10:42.519 Curdy, which is a sequel to The Princess and 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:45.779 the Goblin. I also would like to write in George 00:10:45.779 --> 00:10:49.580 McDonald's world somehow. Like, there's like 00:10:49.580 --> 00:10:52.360 an epilogue, or no, a prologue for The Princess 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:54.980 and Curdy, and I feel like there's a lot of room 00:10:54.980 --> 00:10:58.259 to write some stories of triumph and victory 00:10:58.259 --> 00:11:04.480 and heroic happenings before the the end spoken 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:08.480 of in the prologue of that book. And like, I 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:09.919 would love to do that. I'd love somebody else 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:12.740 who's more qualified to do that. And I think 00:11:12.740 --> 00:11:14.419 it would be absolutely fabulous. But like, these 00:11:14.419 --> 00:11:16.440 books are so beautiful. They're resonant. They 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:21.659 feel like Tolkien and Lewis. To me, I feel like 00:11:21.659 --> 00:11:23.000 Tolkien and Lewis were very heavily inspired 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:26.120 by George MacDonald. I know for sure. Well, I 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:28.350 don't know for sure. I think I remember correctly 00:11:28.350 --> 00:11:30.909 that C .S. Lewis did do an introduction for an 00:11:30.909 --> 00:11:32.350 edition of The Princess and the Goblin, which 00:11:32.350 --> 00:11:35.669 is awesome. And yeah, these are very, very cool 00:11:35.669 --> 00:11:38.730 books. They're very beautiful. Not just The Princess 00:11:38.730 --> 00:11:39.769 and the Goblin and The Princess and the Curdy, 00:11:39.789 --> 00:11:41.549 but also The Day Boy and the Night Girl and The 00:11:41.549 --> 00:11:45.190 Wise Woman. The Wise Woman is like Jungian. It 00:11:45.190 --> 00:11:48.289 has to do with psychology. It feels like something, 00:11:48.470 --> 00:11:50.789 a very mystical Jewish writing actually called 00:11:50.789 --> 00:11:55.350 the Tanya. It's... It's powerful and beautiful 00:11:55.350 --> 00:11:57.830 and meaningful and very sweet. There is also 00:11:57.830 --> 00:11:59.370 The Light Princess by George MacDonald, which 00:11:59.370 --> 00:12:02.250 is just weird. It's a weird book. It gets almost 00:12:02.250 --> 00:12:04.570 really cool, and then it gets weird, and it's 00:12:04.570 --> 00:12:08.549 funky. The Light Princess is definitely not in 00:12:08.549 --> 00:12:10.929 my top books from George MacDonald or from any 00:12:10.929 --> 00:12:13.090 author, but these three books, or the four really, 00:12:13.190 --> 00:12:14.450 because I'm also talking about The Princess and 00:12:14.450 --> 00:12:16.929 Curdie at this point, are amazing, and I love 00:12:16.929 --> 00:12:22.629 them. I listen to Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. It's 00:12:22.629 --> 00:12:25.870 a very interesting book, very effective. Not 00:12:25.870 --> 00:12:27.570 one of my favorites, but very well written. And 00:12:27.570 --> 00:12:30.330 I'd be mildly interested in the other books in 00:12:30.330 --> 00:12:34.190 this series. But yeah, it's not something that 00:12:34.190 --> 00:12:37.490 I hold on to. I absolutely love Howard Pyle. 00:12:37.830 --> 00:12:40.330 If the kids are still using the word Stan, I 00:12:40.330 --> 00:12:43.429 could be considering a Howard Pyle Stan. I love 00:12:43.429 --> 00:12:46.259 his Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. Two of the 00:12:46.259 --> 00:12:48.100 four King Arthur books that I've listened to 00:12:48.100 --> 00:12:51.899 by him, also amazing. And it's inspirational 00:12:51.899 --> 00:12:55.620 writing. It's fun. It's adventurous. It's noble. 00:12:55.820 --> 00:13:01.179 It's chivalric. I really love his work. As you 00:13:01.179 --> 00:13:04.679 can see here, I have those books as well. I hated 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:06.820 The Westing Game. The Westing Game is a horrible 00:13:06.820 --> 00:13:09.100 book that I don't think any child should be forced 00:13:09.100 --> 00:13:10.980 to read. And I think it should be kept away from 00:13:10.980 --> 00:13:16.590 children because I believe it is like... maladapted. 00:13:16.590 --> 00:13:20.889 Um, if the things in it are absorbed by children, 00:13:21.049 --> 00:13:24.690 they will be open to, uh, marital infidelity 00:13:24.690 --> 00:13:30.009 and, uh, acts of violence and, uh, not terrorism, 00:13:30.049 --> 00:13:34.370 but like acts of, uh, like vandalism and I don't 00:13:34.370 --> 00:13:36.649 know, evil. And it's weird. And that might sound 00:13:36.649 --> 00:13:38.889 like I'm overblowing it, but really read the 00:13:38.889 --> 00:13:40.610 Westinghame if you want to, if you're an adult. 00:13:41.070 --> 00:13:42.750 Please, if you're a child, really do not. There 00:13:42.750 --> 00:13:45.389 are other much better mysteries that you could 00:13:45.389 --> 00:13:47.850 read or listen to. In fact, I have some that 00:13:47.850 --> 00:13:50.669 are not for children. They're pulp novels written 00:13:50.669 --> 00:13:54.230 in a more or less child -friendly way that I 00:13:54.230 --> 00:13:57.509 would rather you read. Even the most on the edge 00:13:57.509 --> 00:14:00.049 of being more for adults and for children of 00:14:00.049 --> 00:14:02.149 these pulp novels that you'll see on this list, 00:14:02.190 --> 00:14:03.710 I would rather have you read than The Westing 00:14:03.710 --> 00:14:07.470 Game if you're a child. It's just gross. for 00:14:07.470 --> 00:14:10.429 lack of a better term, and excuse my inelegance 00:14:10.429 --> 00:14:12.690 for that, but it's just not a good book, not 00:14:12.690 --> 00:14:14.529 a good book at all, not something anybody should 00:14:14.529 --> 00:14:21.950 be reading. Okay, next I have, oh, I forgot to 00:14:21.950 --> 00:14:24.250 block out Kidnapped, but I have a whole connect 00:14:24.250 --> 00:14:27.590 of a few Robert Louis Stevenson books here. Treasure 00:14:27.590 --> 00:14:30.009 Island is beautiful. It's a treasure. It's wonderful. 00:14:31.700 --> 00:14:33.960 It's just, it's so much fun, and I do want to 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:35.500 read more of his stuff, and I have yet to, so 00:14:35.500 --> 00:14:38.519 that's unfortunate for me. Again, I like Star 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:41.379 Wars. Here, you see Tales of the Red Panda, The 00:14:41.379 --> 00:14:44.419 Mind Master, The Android Assassins, and The Crime 00:14:44.419 --> 00:14:47.860 Cabal. These books are written by Greg Taylor 00:14:47.860 --> 00:14:51.240 of the Dakota Ring Theater, Dakota Ring Podcast. 00:14:51.340 --> 00:14:53.320 He created The Red Panda as a throwback radio 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:57.279 show to things like The Shadow, Doc Savage, maybe 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:00.340 The Spider. Um, if the spider wasn't just pulp 00:15:00.340 --> 00:15:03.500 novels. Um, but anyway, these are what I was 00:15:03.500 --> 00:15:06.539 talking about. The pulp novels, they're like 00:15:06.539 --> 00:15:09.720 team to adult. Maybe the mind master gets the 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:13.919 most adult because, uh, it does. I won't go into 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:16.559 it. Um, and these could be okay for kids to read. 00:15:16.620 --> 00:15:17.820 I would say definitely like an older kid, like 00:15:17.820 --> 00:15:20.440 a 12 year old boy would love these. Um, the action 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:22.659 in them is great. It's like really well written. 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:25.360 There's mystery in there. There's, uh, you know, 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:28.039 crimes to be solved. Really fun. really great 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:30.799 stuff, but not made for kids, but definitely 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:34.179 kid accessible and, and okay for kids. Um, very 00:15:34.179 --> 00:15:36.840 heroic, very noble, uh, you know, a lot of self 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:39.460 -sacrifice, a lot of good, good, you know, morality 00:15:39.460 --> 00:15:42.559 in there and also fun adventure. Um, so that's 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:44.639 those as a, as a tangent and then Wings of Fire 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:48.360 by Tui T. Sutherland. Uh, it's, um, it's an entertaining 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:50.159 book. It's well -written. I don't think it's 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:52.129 for kids. Um, I know it's written for kids, but 00:15:52.129 --> 00:15:53.690 it's not for kids. The dragon romance stuff is 00:15:53.690 --> 00:15:56.490 no good. Um, it's also very violent and like 00:15:56.490 --> 00:15:58.690 very like vulgar with the violence. It's very 00:15:58.690 --> 00:16:00.809 like gratuitous and I didn't like that too much. 00:16:00.889 --> 00:16:02.830 I may read more of it because I'm an adult and 00:16:02.830 --> 00:16:04.730 I can do that and I can maybe further assess 00:16:04.730 --> 00:16:06.710 the series as it goes on and see, you know, where 00:16:06.710 --> 00:16:08.730 it goes and how far it goes, how far she pushes 00:16:08.730 --> 00:16:11.110 the envelope. But definitely, uh, this is not 00:16:11.110 --> 00:16:14.649 for your kids. Um, maybe a teenager, I guess. 00:16:15.230 --> 00:16:16.750 if you want them thinking about romance and stuff, 00:16:16.850 --> 00:16:18.409 but it's like pitched for younger kids, like 00:16:18.409 --> 00:16:20.370 eight to 12, I think. And it's definitely got 00:16:20.370 --> 00:16:22.669 weird, inappropriate dragon romance stuff. And 00:16:22.669 --> 00:16:24.590 then the violence just being gratuitous is off 00:16:24.590 --> 00:16:27.330 -putting and not good to me. Lord of the Rings, 00:16:27.470 --> 00:16:28.889 if you want to consider them to be kids' books, 00:16:29.009 --> 00:16:30.549 then yes, they're excellent kids' books. I love 00:16:30.549 --> 00:16:34.250 them. They're great. They're very well written. 00:16:34.269 --> 00:16:36.269 They're beautiful. It's a great story. It's something 00:16:36.269 --> 00:16:37.350 that sticks with me. It's something I want to 00:16:37.350 --> 00:16:39.370 keep delving into. It feels very deep and very 00:16:39.370 --> 00:16:42.590 like, I don't know what, it feels very deep and 00:16:42.590 --> 00:16:46.409 it feels very profound, but also, Um, you know, 00:16:46.409 --> 00:16:48.049 it's mostly accessible. It's just, it's a little 00:16:48.049 --> 00:16:49.610 hard. The Silmarillion definitely is much harder 00:16:49.610 --> 00:16:52.070 to read, um, or to listen to, but it's interesting 00:16:52.070 --> 00:16:53.789 stories, but it feels like doing homework as 00:16:53.789 --> 00:16:55.509 opposed, except for the Baron Lothian story. 00:16:55.730 --> 00:16:57.809 Um, it feels like doing homework sometimes and 00:16:57.809 --> 00:16:59.769 it's not, you know, amazing. The Hobbit on the 00:16:59.769 --> 00:17:03.029 other hand is a beautiful, fun, happy story with 00:17:03.029 --> 00:17:07.130 characters facing darkness. Uh, Bilbo is like 00:17:07.130 --> 00:17:09.789 almost a, anyway, he's a very interesting lead 00:17:09.789 --> 00:17:12.440 character because he's not noble. in a lot of 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:17.420 ways, and that's interesting because he is like 00:17:17.420 --> 00:17:19.920 an anti -hero, almost, but he's an anti -hero 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:21.819 in one of the best ways possible, and it's really 00:17:21.819 --> 00:17:24.680 interesting to see how he goes through his hero's 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:27.480 journey, and I absolutely love The Hobbit. It's 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:29.140 one I'll keep reading again and again and again. 00:17:29.539 --> 00:17:31.000 I'll probably read it more than Lord of the Rings. 00:17:32.650 --> 00:17:33.789 Partly because of the length and partly just 00:17:33.789 --> 00:17:35.670 because I feel like it's better. I like the smaller, 00:17:35.710 --> 00:17:38.269 more contained story, and it still feels very 00:17:38.269 --> 00:17:41.009 epic to me and beautiful, and I really enjoy 00:17:41.009 --> 00:17:44.269 it. Tom Sawyer, written by Mark Twain. Adventures 00:17:44.269 --> 00:17:47.170 of Tom Sawyer. No, no, this is not a great book 00:17:47.170 --> 00:17:49.210 for kids. Maybe for an older boy, like a 12 -year 00:17:49.210 --> 00:17:52.009 -old, but it's also, like, wildly inappropriate 00:17:52.009 --> 00:17:53.529 in some places, and I'm not talking about the 00:17:53.529 --> 00:17:55.769 use of things like the N -word, which are anachronistic, 00:17:55.869 --> 00:18:00.470 but in the context, I think it's not as bad as 00:18:00.470 --> 00:18:07.150 it could be. And it's yeah, it's just like a 00:18:07.150 --> 00:18:12.210 very weird book with this boy being very adult 00:18:12.210 --> 00:18:14.690 in some ways. He like coerces a girl that's his 00:18:14.690 --> 00:18:16.549 age to kissing him because they're married now 00:18:16.549 --> 00:18:18.029 or whatever. And it's just like very strange. 00:18:18.089 --> 00:18:19.829 But then he saves the girl later, which is kind 00:18:19.829 --> 00:18:22.309 of noble. But yeah, it's like it's a very mixed 00:18:22.309 --> 00:18:24.170 bag for me. I don't like it. And I just have 00:18:24.170 --> 00:18:27.740 it. It's funny that this. One version of Huckleberry 00:18:27.740 --> 00:18:29.900 Finn that I didn't read yet is narrated by Elijah 00:18:29.900 --> 00:18:32.700 Wood or performed by Elijah Wood, who obviously 00:18:32.700 --> 00:18:34.519 played Frodo in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:38.440 So that's funny. It would be silly of me to not 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:41.920 mention the books that I read for Fortress Fiction, 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:46.319 my podcast. And yeah, it's time to do that. So 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:49.490 I've done a. I've done some chapter -by -chapter 00:18:49.490 --> 00:18:51.390 Fortress Fiction book coverage, and I've also 00:18:51.390 --> 00:18:53.990 done some whole book reviews for Fortress Fiction, 00:18:54.069 --> 00:18:55.730 and the idea was to go through as many classics 00:18:55.730 --> 00:18:59.329 as I could, or go through as many middle grade 00:18:59.329 --> 00:19:02.130 books as I could, classic and modern, and Little 00:19:02.130 --> 00:19:05.109 Women and Secret Garden came from that list, 00:19:05.190 --> 00:19:06.509 but there are other books I forgot to mention, 00:19:06.630 --> 00:19:09.109 but I'm here now, so I may as well mention them. 00:19:09.569 --> 00:19:12.089 The first book I read for Fortress Fiction through 00:19:12.089 --> 00:19:13.869 this effort to read a bunch of middle grade and 00:19:13.869 --> 00:19:17.910 assess them for quality, and... appropriateness 00:19:17.910 --> 00:19:21.690 to see if these were stories with spine or you 00:19:21.690 --> 00:19:23.430 know stories that belonged in the fortress fiction 00:19:23.430 --> 00:19:28.490 was Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. I do 00:19:28.490 --> 00:19:30.029 not think Tuck Everlasting should be read to 00:19:30.029 --> 00:19:34.990 children. I think it's a one not a it's beautifully 00:19:34.990 --> 00:19:39.250 written but it's Kind of toxic, for lack of a 00:19:39.250 --> 00:19:41.309 better word. And it's not a great book. Definitely 00:19:41.309 --> 00:19:44.950 a hard do not recommend. And another book that 00:19:44.950 --> 00:19:46.349 I would say, like The West End Game, is something 00:19:46.349 --> 00:19:49.390 that kids should definitely not listen to. Next, 00:19:49.470 --> 00:19:51.470 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 00:19:51.470 --> 00:19:55.309 is a weird book. I didn't like it. It was absurdist. 00:19:55.329 --> 00:19:57.269 There's no real narrative thread. There's no 00:19:57.269 --> 00:19:59.309 real story there. That's a problem for me because 00:19:59.309 --> 00:20:00.910 I like stories. I like the narratives. I like 00:20:00.910 --> 00:20:04.029 the transformation of the characters. And it 00:20:04.029 --> 00:20:07.910 was just too absurdist for me to enjoy. Bridge 00:20:07.910 --> 00:20:10.430 to Terabithia, which I do not see the author's 00:20:10.430 --> 00:20:12.970 name, so the way I'm reading these out makes 00:20:12.970 --> 00:20:15.069 it a little bit difficult for me. Oh, here we 00:20:15.069 --> 00:20:17.690 go. By Katherine Patterson. It's a fabulous book. 00:20:17.809 --> 00:20:19.950 It's wonderful. It's heartwarming. It's beautiful. 00:20:20.690 --> 00:20:26.630 It's very entertaining, and it's interesting 00:20:26.630 --> 00:20:28.710 because it's fantastical and yet very grounded 00:20:28.710 --> 00:20:32.529 at the same time, and it was a joy to read. I 00:20:32.529 --> 00:20:34.130 will skip over Little Women because I already 00:20:34.130 --> 00:20:38.119 read that. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. by Mildred 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:40.359 D. Taylor is a fabulous book. It's part of the 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:42.819 Logan Family Saga. And I haven't checked out 00:20:42.819 --> 00:20:45.359 the other Logan Family Saga books, but it was 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:48.119 great. It was very interesting. Again, a very 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:54.160 real book. It's funny because it's a racial book, 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:57.359 you could call it. And I felt bad because at 00:20:57.359 --> 00:20:59.359 one point I hated this little black kid and I 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:00.759 thought, well, all the characters are black and 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:02.619 I love these other black characters. So the fact 00:21:02.619 --> 00:21:05.380 that I hate this one character is more of a reflection 00:21:05.380 --> 00:21:08.640 on how... bad the kid is and how taylor characterizes 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.319 him then you know how you know somebody couldn't 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:12.720 misconstrue that and say that i hate black people 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:14.920 because i hated this punk kid in the book um 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:18.019 because he was uh he was horrible the white kids 00:21:18.019 --> 00:21:19.519 around some of the white kids around him that 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:21.180 are mentioned specifically as like leading him 00:21:21.180 --> 00:21:24.799 down the bad path are also horrible um but it 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:26.900 was interesting uh and the logan family you know 00:21:26.900 --> 00:21:29.740 children grandchildren of slaves freed slaves 00:21:29.740 --> 00:21:32.160 um were wonderful people and it was a really 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:34.829 interesting really cool book A lot of fun. Well, 00:21:34.970 --> 00:21:37.230 I don't know if it's fair to say if it was actually 00:21:37.230 --> 00:21:41.190 a lot of fun. It was more a good book and very 00:21:41.190 --> 00:21:46.910 enjoyable to read. But there are moments of fun 00:21:46.910 --> 00:21:49.250 and levity and humor in it. It's just like a 00:21:49.250 --> 00:21:50.930 book about real life, I guess you could say. 00:21:51.970 --> 00:21:54.390 Next on my list was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 00:21:54.450 --> 00:21:55.450 which I've already talked about. Weston Game, 00:21:55.569 --> 00:21:56.829 which I've touched on. Wizard of Oz, which I've 00:21:56.829 --> 00:21:58.029 touched on. Ronny the Robber's Daughter, which 00:21:58.029 --> 00:22:00.009 I've touched on. Anne of Green Gables. Hatchet. 00:22:00.870 --> 00:22:02.569 Also things I've touched on, so I won't repeat 00:22:02.569 --> 00:22:04.349 now. The Wind of the Willows. The Wind of the 00:22:04.349 --> 00:22:06.829 Willows was a lot of fun. Not one of my favorite 00:22:06.829 --> 00:22:08.670 books, but definitely a good book, a solid book. 00:22:10.569 --> 00:22:13.430 I heard it was one of Tolkien's favorite books. 00:22:13.630 --> 00:22:16.190 And it's funny because it reminds me of The Hobbit 00:22:16.190 --> 00:22:19.490 in a way, which I mentioned in that review. And 00:22:19.490 --> 00:22:21.769 my review of The Wind of the Willows, not my 00:22:21.769 --> 00:22:24.750 review of The Hobbit. And it's an interesting 00:22:24.750 --> 00:22:29.799 book. It's weird. anti -heroes abound. It's very 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:33.480 much like a absurdist children's fantasy book. 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:36.140 Kind of like Alice in Wonderland, but much better. 00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:40.900 It's absurdness is less ridiculous and there's 00:22:40.900 --> 00:22:43.259 still a narrative through line, but it's also 00:22:43.259 --> 00:22:45.220 kind of like Jane Berry where it's like snarky 00:22:45.220 --> 00:22:46.619 comments are being made and it's almost poking 00:22:46.619 --> 00:22:49.279 fun at, I think, Victorian or perhaps Edwardian 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:51.700 England and their culture and society and things 00:22:51.700 --> 00:22:53.900 like that. And I don't know, it's quirky. It's 00:22:53.900 --> 00:22:55.980 a lot of fun. A lot of fun. I thought it was 00:22:55.980 --> 00:22:59.539 very well written. Excuse me. Next is Number 00:22:59.539 --> 00:23:02.980 the Stars. I'm sorry. I forgot to say who. Oh, 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:04.799 but the author of The Wind in the Willows. I 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:07.039 was uncomfortable with him. Kenneth Graham. He 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:08.460 wrote some other stuff that seemed really weird 00:23:08.460 --> 00:23:10.500 and I wasn't into it. But you can check it out 00:23:10.500 --> 00:23:14.680 yourself. Then next is Number the Stars. Number 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:17.500 the Stars by Lois Lowry is a beautiful book. 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:23.059 It's about the Dutch people, I believe, who were 00:23:23.059 --> 00:23:27.079 helping Jews escape from the Nazis. This one 00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:28.799 particular girl and her family in this one case, 00:23:28.980 --> 00:23:32.019 it's kind of narrowly focused. It's kind of like 00:23:32.019 --> 00:23:34.619 Dutch nationalism and pride and how the Dutch 00:23:34.619 --> 00:23:36.880 people are better than the Nazis, the German 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:40.980 Nazis, whatever, Nazi Germans. And perhaps they're 00:23:40.980 --> 00:23:42.579 just better than the Germans. I'm not sure what 00:23:42.579 --> 00:23:46.019 the point is there. But like they're, anyway, 00:23:46.099 --> 00:23:48.079 it's just a really interesting story. It's about, 00:23:48.140 --> 00:23:50.480 you know, saving people who need to be saved. 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:53.359 being noble and risking yourself to do it. And 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:55.099 it's a very touching story. It's told from a 00:23:55.099 --> 00:23:56.500 girl's perspective and it's about her family 00:23:56.500 --> 00:24:00.660 and her friend. And it was moving and sweet and 00:24:00.660 --> 00:24:03.839 beautiful and tragic and sad and scary in some 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:11.619 places. It's a very good book. Next I have, let's 00:24:11.619 --> 00:24:15.460 see, well, Peter Pan, which I've already talked 00:24:15.460 --> 00:24:17.099 about, so I won't continue. And then, yeah, the 00:24:17.099 --> 00:24:20.880 last one was Wings of Fire. So now I'll get back 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:23.680 to the rest of the episode. The 14 book series 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:27.160 by L. Frank Baum of The Wizard of Oz is amazing. 00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:28.519 I absolutely love it. It's a family treasure. 00:24:28.700 --> 00:24:31.579 I'm currently rereading or I've read them all 00:24:31.579 --> 00:24:34.119 or listened to them all once or maybe twice. 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:36.660 And I'm currently working through reading the 00:24:36.660 --> 00:24:38.599 whole 14 books box set to my kids. We're on book 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:42.680 like 10 or so. And they enjoy it. I enjoy it. 00:24:42.700 --> 00:24:44.240 It's great. It's great, good fun. It's beautiful 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:46.700 writing. Actually, it's not beautiful writing. 00:24:46.799 --> 00:24:49.569 It's just very fun, very charming, very... enjoyable 00:24:49.569 --> 00:24:52.470 so i like that a lot um i have here uh the princess 00:24:52.470 --> 00:24:54.549 and the kurtian uh the princess and the goblin 00:24:54.549 --> 00:24:58.750 um you know from i rented them from the library 00:24:58.750 --> 00:25:01.700 checked them out there uh audiobook library thing. 00:25:01.900 --> 00:25:03.700 So that's shown because I didn't want to forget 00:25:03.700 --> 00:25:05.839 that. And then this last thing I show here is 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:07.200 the Spiderwick Chronicles, which I didn't actually 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:09.180 read this book of it. I read the first three 00:25:09.180 --> 00:25:11.940 to five book series. Um, and then this is beyond 00:25:11.940 --> 00:25:13.859 the Spiderwick Chronicles, I believe is what 00:25:13.859 --> 00:25:15.380 it's called. So yeah, I read that one. It was 00:25:15.380 --> 00:25:17.740 a lot of fun. It was very enjoyable. Um, I think 00:25:17.740 --> 00:25:21.039 it's good for, for most any kids. Um, the family 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:22.519 stuff gets a little bit real. The drama with 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:24.640 the kids is a little bit real, um, like too real. 00:25:24.900 --> 00:25:26.619 Uh, the parents are divorced and it's like very 00:25:26.619 --> 00:25:28.990 hurtful, very painful, but it's like. almost 00:25:28.990 --> 00:25:30.730 good for kids to experience maybe. It's very 00:25:30.730 --> 00:25:34.630 interesting. So that's my big audit. Let me know 00:25:34.630 --> 00:25:36.769 what you think about these books that I've read, 00:25:36.849 --> 00:25:39.990 these family classics and these family books, 00:25:40.049 --> 00:25:41.789 these classic books and these middle grade books. 00:25:41.890 --> 00:25:43.549 Tell me what you think about them and how you 00:25:43.549 --> 00:25:45.509 liked them because I told you all my thoughts 00:25:45.509 --> 00:25:47.069 on them and I'd be curious to hear what other 00:25:47.069 --> 00:25:48.950 people say about them. Until next time, folks, 00:25:49.069 --> 00:25:51.329 take care and be well. This is MJ signing out. 00:25:53.430 --> 00:25:55.470 Magical bugs battle monsters in this exciting 00:25:55.470 --> 00:25:58.220 fantasy adventure. Grimlings prey upon children. 00:25:58.839 --> 00:26:01.359 Growbugs protect them. When a grimling finds 00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:03.779 a hidden growbug fort, the whole flock makes 00:26:03.779 --> 00:26:06.299 a surprise attack. 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