The writer Neil Gaiman says that there are no bad authors of children's literature, and that it is the children who must choose their readings; This is the only way to decide which content they like best, and to learn to discern which are the stories that are really well structured.
Gaiman has written books for adults and children, having been awarded numerous international awards. Here we know one of his works turned into a film: "Coraline's worlds", through which a good knowledge of the children's world is evident.
The author does not bite his tongue by stating that not rarely, It is adults who are capable of destroying the love of reading by children, when judging their favorite literary styles, or before their tastes. We had given you some guidance to discover 'what preteen children read'. But remember that they are just that: advice. Thus it is convenient to have children when we go to the bookstore, or the weekly day of visiting the library.
Even with the elder (who is 10 years old), I try by all means whatever he chooses when he has to renew the books on loans; if he cannot come for whatever reason, I choose two or three volumes of different themes (including some of terror, which he likes most), and I leave them at the desk in the room he shares with his sister. But I don't force him to read what has occurred to me to take for him, nor dissuade him if instead of preferring a history book, he entertains himself with a comic. I say 'even', because he has more interests outside the family dynamic (like spending more time playing with his friends).
Reading (and more if it is in paper books), can become seriously discredited, so we don't need to make it harder. Only our children can choose the books they like best (it happens to us too, right?). Also in case it really is about reading with inappropriate content because they are aimed at older ages, we can talk to them, and expose our motives, giving them alternatives.
In short, it is about not deterring our children from reading, it will not be that they take it too seriously, and miss a good potential reader.
