More on the Three Wishes controversy.

Why is it that kids usually make so much more sense than grown-ups?

From the Toronto Star:

Evie says the objections to Three Wishes are typical: Adults are always underestimating what children can handle. By her own admission, she's "a mature kid," but thinks lots of youngsters her age would enjoy the book.

"I don't usually enjoy non-fiction books, but I enjoyed it. It had the voices of real children. It was actually real-life things that kids in other countries are going through and I'm really interested in that," she said.

Evie has it pegged as one of this year's Silver Birch winners, voted on by about 58,000 Ontario students. "It just deals with so much reality. It's so straightforward. None of the other books were like that," she said.