Comments on: Question Tuesday: Age Ratings Snapshot http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/2011/10/25/question-tuesday-age-ratings-snapshot/ A School Library Journal Blog Wed, 15 May 2013 20:46:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Naruto http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/2011/10/25/question-tuesday-age-ratings-snapshot/#comment-202158 Naruto Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:01:46 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/?p=8142#comment-202158 In reply to the previous comment @Susi. teens and kids these days will not care about the Genre of the book if it is stated as Adult or for anime as Hentai. In my opinion a bigger warning will make it better to make them understand it is harmful or not suitable in some way In reply to the previous comment @Susi.
teens and kids these days will not care about the Genre of the book if it is stated as Adult or for anime as Hentai. In my opinion a bigger warning will make it better to make them understand it is harmful or not suitable in some way

]]> By: Susan Timmons http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/2011/10/25/question-tuesday-age-ratings-snapshot/#comment-112811 Susan Timmons Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:08:20 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/?p=8142#comment-112811 What a helpful list! Thanks for doing the research and pulling everything together in one place! To answer your question, I'm really against book publishers putting content warnings or specific grade/age recommendations on a book. I think the comic/manga categories of everyone / teen / older teen correspond loosely to what publishers already do with classifications of easy / childrens / juvenile-teen-young adult. There's no need for book publishers to do more than that - I would prefer that professional reviewers are the ones who evaluate the quality & content of the given title. I co-taught a short high school class on Banned Books last year, and one of the websites we examined was http://www.commonsensemedia.org which gives very specific age ratings. At first that seems like a really great thing -- until you start looking up your favorite books, or popular books, or classic books, and realize some of the recommendations are far more conservative than what I see students actually reading. There's a great article by Pat Scales about this in in Booklist: http://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=4341541&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 What a helpful list! Thanks for doing the research and pulling everything together in one place!

To answer your question, I’m really against book publishers putting content warnings or specific grade/age recommendations on a book. I think the comic/manga categories of everyone / teen / older teen correspond loosely to what publishers already do with classifications of easy / childrens / juvenile-teen-young adult. There’s no need for book publishers to do more than that – I would prefer that professional reviewers are the ones who evaluate the quality & content of the given title. I co-taught a short high school class on Banned Books last year, and one of the websites we examined was http://www.commonsensemedia.org which gives very specific age ratings. At first that seems like a really great thing — until you start looking up your favorite books, or popular books, or classic books, and realize some of the recommendations are far more conservative than what I see students actually reading. There’s a great article by Pat Scales about this in in Booklist: http://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=4341541&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

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