It is the Panel's hope that the best of them may be re-issued in future years and once more become easily accessible. Whether fiction is excellent, mediocre, or poor depends on the depth and authenticity of these elements and their elegant integration into the coherent whole which is, of course, the book itself. If only the best is good enough for our students, teachers must select fiction which meets the criteria of highest quality of theme, style, characters, plot, setting, and illustrations. In excellent books, the universalities of the human struggle for meaning are presented. Not only are the basic tensions of life revealedlove vs .
Readers grow and gain their own truths about life from reading quality books.
During and after reading, there is much to think about. After the reader closes the book, the book stays with the reader. In good books, the complexity of the human experience is never trivialized nor romanticized. Values or truths are presented to the readers for their acceptance or rejection. In mediocre or poor books values are presented as dogmas, propaganda, or explicit moral lessons.