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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
If your mission is to see who the fastest reader or runner is, then a competition where this is timed makes sense, because you're focus is on the fastest. This wasn't the case. The boy's brother, second place, read 40 books in 6 weeks. That is just less than a book per day. The competition isn't about reading fast, it's about finding enough books that interest you on a given topic.
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Exactly.
At a minimum, the contest is teaching the kids perseverance, to stick with a task once they start it, to live up to a commitment, once made.
The books in question are obviously age-appropriate and, given the themes aspect, probably including a fair amount of non-fiction. I'm pretty sure there are precious few adults, much less kids of any age, who can say they've read at least one book about the 50 states.
If the educational system doesn't beat it out of him, that kid is going to build up one serious knowledge base by the time he hits adulthood.