Kids – Forgetting The Classics?

Are kids losing touch with the literaryt kids’ classics? A survey in Britain reports that only three percent of children had read “Little Women.” “Only 12% had actually read Alice in Wonderland, only 2% ‘Swallows and Amazons’, and only 6% ‘The Secret Garden’. By contrast, 81% had read ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’. ‘The Lord of the Rings’ scored 31%.”