I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
My major allegiance has been to storytelling not to history.
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for...
It's funny I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.