On celebrities writing for children

“…new children’s books by big-name celebrities will at least initially sell well (and be foisted on defenceless kids).”

Is it possible (as my mail suggests) that the kids aren’t quite as defenseless as they may seem to many poor deluded adults? That the kids know the dross from the gold? But how would you convince adults of this? (sigh) Most of whom, frankly, don’t remember their own childhoods particularly well…and therefore don’t have a hope of understanding what a twenty-first century childhood might seem like?