dangerous journey

this children's adaptation of Pilgrim's Progress really captured my kids' attention! this surprised me a little, because it is written in old english, and you would think at first glance that some of the illustrations would be too scary. but even my three year old would sit for whole chapters and would ask me to keep reading when it was over! makes me want to read John Taylor Gatto's book, "Dumbing Us Down"--it's on my list! have we come to expect way too little of our kids? i am always amazed to read in the laura ingalls books, too, how the children will quote entire poems or passages by heart, do complex long division problems in their head, etc. i bet they didn't learn that stuff watching sesame street. :)