Most parent, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story to their 3 and they must have 2 how difficult it is to write a good children’s book. Either the author has aimed too 3 , so that the children can follow what is in his (or more often, her) story, 4 the story seems to be talking to the readers. The best children’s books are neither very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy both the children who 5 the story and the adult who 6 it. Unfortunately, there are in fact 7 books like this, so the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not 8 to solve. This may be why many of books regarded as works of children’s literature were in fact written for 9 Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland is perhaps the most obvious of this. Children, left for themselves, often 10 the worst possible interest in literature. Just leave a child in bookshop or 11 and he will more willingly choose the books written in an imaginative way, or have a 12 at most children’s comics, full of the stories and jokes which are the objections of teachers and right-thinking parents. Perhaps we parents should 13 trying to brainwash children into accepting our taste in literature. After all children and adults are so 14 that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the 15 books. So I suppose we’ll just have to compromise over that bedtime story.