"Reading Is Cool" Aesop: Difference between revisions

[[File:castorsjuniors_7758castorsjuniors 7758.gif|link=Disney Ducks Comic Universe|frame|That [[Great Big Book of Everything]] has an awesome chapter on literacy.]]

* The book's lead character(s) are [[Expy|Expys]]s or [[Audience Surrogate|Audience Surrogates]]s of the reader(s) who finds themselves in a similar situation to the plot of the book. Similar to the first point, the resolution of the book helps solve a real life problem. If live action, almost always [[Acting for Two|played by the same actor.]]

Usually the new reader(s) have to overcome [[Anti Intellectualism]] and other prejudices in themselves and others. Frequently these episodes include a rainy day and power outage to force the kids to read, or have them sick and needing a lot of bed rest. The children who learn this aesop usually decide that, even though the weather is better and/or they aren't sick anymore they'll continue to read. May overlap with [[Separate Scene Storytelling]]. If this trope is paired with [[New Media Are Evil]] the message tends to boil down to "put down your mind numbing handheld device and read a mind opening book". [[Anvilicious|Anviliciousness]]ness optional.

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* This is probably the second biggest aesop in ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and Thethe Beast]]'', after the moral about learning to love someone for who they are inside. The main character is a girl who loves reading for recreation, even though everyone else around her in her "poor, provincial town" other than father thinks her odd for it. The "Human Again" sequence from the stage musical (and adapted for the film's special edition) goes further, with Belle teaching The Beast to read and him admitting that he never knew books could be so powerful - by making him forget, if only for a moment, who and what he is.

* An ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'' episode had Dave reading ''[[Treasure Island]]'', and at the end, the boys turned off the TV and video games to read ''[[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|The Three Musketeers]]''.

* There's a song in the musical episode of ''[[Arthur (Animationanimation)|Arthur]]'' in which the refrain goes "Having fun isn't hard/When you've got a library card."

* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Read It and Weep" has Rainbow Dash laid up at a hospital with nothing to do. Twilight suggests a book, but Dash resists because "reading is for eggheads". Eventually she starts reading, and becomes enraptured with a story about [[Adventurer Archaeologist]] Daring Do. So much so that when she is discharged, she sneaks back into the hospital to finish the book.

** During the 90's, this became a little on the [[Anvilicious]] side. Many (ironically!) televised PSA's were heavillyheavily pushing this aesopAesop, and more often than not, they had a [[New Media Are Evil]] slant.