![]() The contributors to TV Tropes have also noticed the moving house trope has become super popular in the last 10 years. Much of what I’ve read this year has already faded into a fuzzy haze in my brain. A good book, a really good book, transcends its format. ![]() Simple, right? They blend together after a while, but it’s not the fault of the format. Kid triumphs by being true to his or her own self. Kid is awkward in the lunchroom (seriously – if I never read another lunch room scene again it’ll be too soon). ![]() In book after book authors have hit the same notes. It’s not a new idea for a book ( Joseph Campbell would probably tell you that it’s just a variation on the old “A Stranger Comes to Town” storytelling motif) but this year it’s gotten extreme. I’ll give you an example of a particular pattern: The new kid in school. If you read too many middle grade novels in a given year, you begin to sense patterns that no one else can see. Since then, despite every children’s author knowing full well that the child moves house trope - or motif - or whatever you’d like to call it had been done thousands of times before, we get to 2017 and Betsy Bird (librarian and reviewer for School Libarary Journal) has this to say about the state of middle grade literature: Maria Nikolajeva published that paragraph in 2002 and goes easy on the child moves house trope. ![]() Our Story Props from Child's painting | DIY Play Ideas | Little Ladoo #shorts ![]()
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