I made both my kids read and watch ‘City of Ember’ when they were younger. I think they ‘got it’. Now I’m making my older one read ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’ as he loves dystopian novels.
“Now I’m making my older one read ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’ as he loves dystopian novels.”
Take a look at “Flashback” by Dan Simmons for the older one; it’s an interesting contemporary dystopia. Good but not great, as it COULD have SO much more. I think Simmons is starting to do what Stephen King has done for the last 20 years: go for quantity rather than quality.