{"id":18060,"date":"2017-03-15T23:58:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T04:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/?p=18060"},"modified":"2023-08-22T19:41:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T00:41:49","slug":"bestiary-of-adorable-fallacies-review-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/2017\/03\/15\/bestiary-of-adorable-fallacies-review-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll admit I was a little skeptical<\/strong> when I first cracked open The Amazing Dr. Ransom’s Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I’d taught a logic class for a local co-op several years earlier, and I’d taken a couple of critical thinking classes myself even further back than that, and this book didn’t look very “scholarly” to me.<\/strong> It certainly wasn’t like any of the texts I’d used in the past.<\/p>\n

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With it’s whimsical drawings and far-fetched narrative<\/strong>, I felt as if I were flipping through a copy of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them<\/em> rather than a catalog of logical fallacies. (I thought) I preferred a more straightforward, serious (some might say boring) approach to the subject.<\/p>\n

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But author Douglas Wilson obviously understands kids<\/strong> better than this mother of twelve, because mine have been hooked since the very first chapter.<\/p>\n

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Their interest runs deeper than just paying attention<\/strong> during the 20-or-so minutes I read aloud from this book daily. They are also grasping the material well enough to participate in meaningful discussions afterwards.<\/p>\n

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Not only can they answer the questions (correctly!) at the end of each chapter, but they’ve taken to discussing the concepts outside of “school hours” as well. They try to outdo one another in spotting and correctly identifying “real life” examples of fallacious thinking<\/strong> in advertising and the media, as well as in personal interactions with siblings and friends:<\/p>\n