Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Anonymous asked: What or where do you feel is an appropriate age cut off for your books? I have a nine year old daughter that loves to read, but I am concerned about content for my kids. I truly enjoy your vlog and the "Thoughts from places" you randomly include. So my question is this: would you let your own 9 year old daughter read your work?

Um, my books are much much much more appropriate for you than they are for nine-year-olds. Most of my readers are between 15 and 22, but there are many adults who like my books (and, I hope, no nine-year-olds).

Posted at 4:26 PM 76 notes

Notes

  1. weasleywrock said: As I can be considered pretty mature for my age, I read the books at 13 and was perfectly able to handle them. I do think that nine is too young, though. My neighbor wanted to read them at 10, so her mom asked me. I said she should wait until 13.
  2. coolasabowtie said: I think the best thing for parents to do is to read any questionable books themselves, then they can judge if their child is ready to read it.
  3. morsmordreinthetardis said: i wouldn’t let a nine-year-old read Looking for Alaska though, there’s that bit that John wrote that I don’t like to think about John writing xD
  4. kinkajou505 said: i read books with similar content when i was 12 and understood and enjoyed them - that’s probably a good cut off age
  5. kate-literally said: I read Alaska when I was 14, and it was totally appropriate for that age. I wouldn’t recommend it under 12 or 13 though.
  6. seethepillarsfall said: I read looking for Alaska when I was 10, and i loved it. That said, I definitely understood more of it when I reread it 2 years later.
  7. tzophia said: I mean, I think a nine-year-old could handle the language/sentence structure, but the topics in them are really best reserved for a mature 12-year-old at the least.