I have always loved to read, but this show introduced certain books to me at an age when most kids were content to read Goosebumps... I'm not knockin' Goosebumps, I loved that series... But I was reading Pride and Prejudice when I was in elementary school, and loved it! I didn't understand all of it, but I knew what it meant because of Wishbone. How I loved this show! Similar stories, anyone? Anyone? :)
shareAbsolutely agree! I can remember watching Wishone and learning about classics such as the Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quiote, etc. I know that it was because of Wishbone that I not only knew about these books at a young age, but came to love them at an older age. I can remember sitting in my freshman English class reading the Odyssey, and thinking, "Oh! I remember this episode of Wishbone!" I actually told another one of the English teachers this, and she wanted me to find a copy of the episode for her to show her class. It's sad that quality shows like this that were so good and educational when we were little are completely overlooked now in favor of mindless shows. Needless to say, you won't find me complaining about my childhood anytime soon : )
shareWishbone was the reason I read Tom Sawyer, granted it was several years later when I actually got the book but Wishbone is what made it interesting. Everybody else who does Tom Sawyer jumps right to the fence thing, Wishbone was the only one I saw that dealt with them running away to be pirates and faking their deaths and witnessing the murder in the graveyard and all that good stuff. It was also because of Wishbone that I was interested in reading Phantom of the Opera, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and The Moonstone, and that I found out about Mark Twain's Joan of Arc, and also why I read The Red Badge of Courage and found out about the Sherlock Holmes story Scandal in Bohemia. I owe a lot of thanks for some of my favorite readings to Wishbone.
shareThis show had encouraged me to read some of the featured stories. I had read:
Pride & Prejudice,
Ivanhoe,
The Black Arrow,
The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
The Three Musketeers,
Tom Sawyer,
The Prince and the Pauper, and...
The Phantom of the Opera and I love them.
I still would like to read Silas Marner, Cyrano de Bergerac and The Aeneid, but right now I'm reading Book #4 of The Wheel of Time series - but I would like to though.
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Yes, it was great for encouraging reading much like Reading Rainbow.
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Personally as a writer and a lover of the arts, i really wish Wishbone was more around to help do just that. In a lot of cases the literature-head mind has kind of robbed classics of the very basic principle that got them there in the first place, ENTERTAINMENT. A lot of kids are turned off to reading older books because their only expierience early on is being forced in a class that's caring more about what 'x' could mean then what the story is about.
All you need is something to help bridge kids into it and watch the magic happen. Wishbone is a perfect example of doing it right. It's a fun taste of the book that in a way helps tell the story because for some people certain writers can be difficult to get through, but if they get the gist of it they may find it interesting and go on.
In today's modern world we've made it so easy to get access to both current and older art, we really just need better marketing to get people into some of the stuff.
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