Here’s something I wrote to a Facebook group in response to a question about Charlotte Mason’s view of children reading silly books, and specifically whether silly books, since they aren’t what Mason called “living books,” are therefore what she called “twaddle” that children shouldn’t read:
No, silly books are not (necessarily) twaddle, even though they are probably not living books.
One big misconception some have is the idea that any and every book is either a living book or it is twaddle, one or the other. But that’s not at all the case.