
: : Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Saturday , August 14, 2010 Quick Link : Anne Shulock on Fiction with Young Narrators As a culture , we have an odd relationship with high-achieving youths . The media scrambles to cover four-year-old abstract artists , 12-year-old fashion bloggers , 13-year-olds who climb Mt . Everest—but we regard the little prodigies with a mix of admiration , disbelief , mistrust and even hostility . In an age of shortening attention spans and the glorification of stupidity , I find it comforting and exciting to spend time with young characters for whom books , maps , notebooks , letters , research , drawings , imagined inventions and classic films are central and essential . Precocious narrators , and the