to not buy Horrible Histories

[Smallbrownbird]

Having heard Terry Deary "interviewed" on Woman's Hour this morning - by which I mean he took the opportunity to rant at, bully, dismiss, mislead and belittle the experts he was asked to converse with - AIBU to say that I will nver buy any of his books, ever?

If you buy Horrible Histories from charity shops (and there are always loads of them), your DC can enjoy them, the charity gets the money, and you know that Deary isn't getting royalties

The interview is available here for 7 days

Women's Hour

They start the discussion with TD at 11.26 minutes in.

Haven't listening to it all yet, just listening now.

good point aldi. I don't like Martin Amis or Tom Wolfe - but they both write a cracking book (but I wouldn't tell them if I met them)

His RT interview referred to above is here. It's titled Why Teachers Should be Sacked. All of them.

Hatwoman - as above, it is the amazing music team to be credited for the fabulous HH songs (though they may not have happened without TD/HH in the first place). There is a very good interview with the composers on the CBBC HH website.

That was too short an interview to really discuss the topic, so I don't think any of them came out of that in the way they had hoped.

I think he was a bit jumped on to.

I didn't really like the way he made his point, but I think sadly he has got one. Whether we like it or not, e-books are becoming the norm. I'm with the "or nots" on this one, I was really disappointed to find a new Stephen King book on sale only as an e-book and I hate reading downloads.

But the presenter was quite quick to jump on him when he said "Swedish" instead of Norwegian and I think it put him on the defensive.

And his "talk about me" comment seemed to be to try and use his own reading habits/preferences as an example for the discussion. Which was flawed since he had previously complained that 15 year olds are too old to be a valid age group for study.

But I think they were all on about the same for jumping on, dismissing and bullying each other, probably because they had a very short time slot to discuss things in and they all wanted to get their own point across. I don't think he behaved in any worse a way than the woman who was being interviewed with him (and she called the research Swedish too) but I didn't really take to him based on what I heard.

I haven't paid the books or the author much attention so far, as LO is still too young for them yet. From this thread he seems to be a qualified historian in the same way that Gillian McKeith is a doctor, is that right?

But I will say that at age 2 1/2, LO loves both paper books and the e-books he has on the i-pad, although I'd say he seems to prefer the paper books more at the moment. The i-pad is fun sometimes, but it's the 'real' books he likes to look at himself.

They needed far more time on this subject.