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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
Left on their own, kids the closest most kids are going to get to Bram Stoker's Dracula is the Twilight movie series. And if they like it well enough, they *may* even bother to read the Twilight books.
With the millions of written books, stories, and fanfics kids can have access to, they're turning more and more to just glancing at the classic in movie form and moving on. If it's in black and white... Yeah, that's an automatic 'no' from most.
I even doubt that most high school students have even seen a movie version of "A Christmas Carol", let alone picked up the original story without it being on a mandatory list somewhere. Let alone any of the other classics.
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Scary but true. My cousin's daughter is now in high school and the number of kids that read books at all today, electronic or not, is very low. She's a HUGE fan of scifi, so reading a book all the time. Alas, none of them classics. I had suggested to her that a lot of the themes in scifi come from history, so I gave her a short list. She read Bullfinch's Mythology ($.99 at Amazon) while recovering from COVID. Now she's kindof excited about reading more - the librarian is making some recommendations on that.