That's great EgyptianGoddess! Sounds like you've got a lifetime reader on your hands and any book (or series) that can do that I'm all for. As I said, I've never read or even heard of these books (I was a Dr. Suess kid myself, but then again, I'm rather long in the tooth! LOL!) so wasn't making a commentary on them, per se, just what I thought Ann Tobias was saying about them. From what you say: it sounds like the books' effects on their readers and the bottom line actually met in this instance.
Jeff
My daughter is 17 now, and she also read Dr. Seuss and all the rest of the normal children's books. My Mom was a big reader, I always have been, and so is my daughter. Hopefully, when she has children, that'll continue to be passed along. There was also a Goosebumps series on TV too that she couldn't miss....it and the books were big deals at the time.
Now, of course, she's a Twilight and Harry Potter fan. But she's read all the books, not just going for the movies. There are other series/books she loves too, and when she loves them, we buy them to keep. I like how she plans on passing them to her children someday.
I rarely listen to what other people say that's negative about another author's work or series. Hey, Stephen King hated Twilight, said she couldn't write....but no matter what his opinion is, millions love those books (and now the movies), she's now famous and rich, just as he is. Each to their own
It was the same looking for an agent. I got so many rejections, it was really depressing. A couple came close, but for whatever their reasons, they ended up passing. Now, I have an agent that believes in my book (and planned series), and one day, when I'm published, I hope those that passed on me kick themselves until they bleed <g>........it's all subjective, right?