Could it be that children are not interested in any challenging book?

They are no longer inspired in any subject in the institutions that now pass for schools in England. Dickens? Perish the thought. These days it's "This is Jane. See Jane run." Then people wonder at the appalling lack of writing skills that are seen everywhere and no less in these forums.

How glad I am that I was educated in England when a school counted for something. Now it's more like a child care situation, the child care teachers are expected to take over for the neglectful parents.

Dickens - one of a kind.

People don't like to be reminded of poverty and hardship? Whatever happened to a book so well written you cannot put it down? He wrote many. Since when were books judged on their merit by their ability to whitewash life, reality?

No wonder reading is fast becoming a thing of the past, and Britain has had to come up with a Reading Scheme to try to revive it. Sometimes I think I live on another planet.

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