Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
“Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.”
“Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.”