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Meghan Markle s Woke Book May Put Children off Reading, Claims Op-Ed
On 5/6/21 at 8:38 AM EDT
An op-ed published in the British newspaper
The Telegraph suggests that children will not be interested in The Duchess of Sussex s first book because it centers soupy stories about love and kindness.
The Bench, which will be published in June, is inspired by Prince Harry s relationship with his son Archie.
Ella Whelan writes that: They [children] certainly don t like to be lectured if there is a moral to the story, every good writer from Aesop to Road Dahl knows you ve got to disguise it with a bit of fun.
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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, in 2018
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Children are often the harshest critics. Anyone who has tried to make their toddler laugh or keep their pre-teen engaged knows how impatient kids are in the face of mediocrity.
Despite this, many still believe that they have what it takes to write children’s books. In one of the best episodes of the 2000 cult comedy Black Books, Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey create the “greatest children s book ever written” after hours of drinking called The Elephant and His Balloon. The book is so good they have to burn it.
The latest celebrity to attempt to cash-in on the kids market is Meghan Markle, whose new book The Bench is published by Penguin Random House in June. Through the eyes of a mother, the book follows different fathers and sons sitting on a bench. Modelled on Meghan, her former royal husband Harry Windsor and their son Archie, The Bench is based on a poem the Duchess wrote on Father’s Day. Meghan emphasised in a
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