10-01-2002, 02:12 PM | #1 |
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Favorite Children's Books
What weere your favorite books growing up?
What are your children's favorite books? I'm looking for books beyond Harry Potter, but in the same general reading age/level group.
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10-01-2002, 02:58 PM | #2 |
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I liked too many to name, but here are a few of my favorites:
Nancy Drew The Chronicles of Narnia The Hobbit (duh) Emily of New Moon The Secret Garden ghost stories in general The Dark is Rising series The works of James Thurber The works of Mark Twain The works of Roald Dahl classic sci fi such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells The works of Robert Louis Stevenson The Little House series Charlotte's Web (and other books by E.B. White) Hmm, I can't think of any more right now. |
10-01-2002, 03:03 PM | #3 |
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I really liked reading our encyclopedias. I was a "non-fiction" type even then! I miss the old set, I wish my parents hadn't gotten rid of them. I also enjoyed the Laura Ingels Wilder stuff, and a series called "Betsy Tacey", the Narnia books, The Boxcar Children, and Highlights magazine.
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I remeber the Boxcar children! Now that takes me back. Quote:
Dunadan mentioned the Redwall series in another thread, which seems to be an English favorite. There are 15 in the series. Has anyone else read them?
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10-01-2002, 04:06 PM | #5 |
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I liked "The Owl Service" by Alan Garner. Really spooky stuff. I can recall literally being afraid to turn the page. Highly recommended.
(Oh, and the title refers to a set of dinner plates (or "service"), not a *&@*! postal service!) I think I was into John Wyndham (Day of the Triffids, Midwich Cuckoos) about the same time as getting into LOTR. Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant Chronicles not long after; interesting but maybe a bit too old for <14s. For fluffiness, Watership Down (Richard Adams) The Amber Spyglass books (Phillip Pullman) are getting rave reviews here in the UK. I've not read them, but they sound good. cheers D PS - to carry over from exchange with Cirdan: kids these days (well, mine) seem to go bananas for the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. (Think of Aragorn as a mouse). Last edited by Dunadan : 10-01-2002 at 04:10 PM. |
10-01-2002, 04:26 PM | #6 |
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I tried! (to think of Aragorn as a mouse! ) It's not working!
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10-01-2002, 05:08 PM | #7 |
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Stop me if you like any of these:
Chronicles of Narnia Anne of Green Gables The works of Louisa May Alcott Just William Jennings (no one in the whole world actually likes these books any more, not even me ) The works of E. Nesbit Enid Blyton - Malory Towers anyone? Harry Potter (now) and best of all... The Chalet School Series, by Elinor Brent-Dyer. There are 60 of these books, and I read them non-stop for about five years
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My list of goods to get for "the boy" has grown considerably. There are some great suggestions here.
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10-01-2002, 05:30 PM | #9 |
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"The Mouse and his Child" by Russell Hoban. Wonderful book by a much under-rated author.
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10-01-2002, 05:45 PM | #10 |
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I was read to/read the classic Enid Blyton famous 5 and Secret 7..probably a bit dated but great for teaching kids the changes in tone and atmosphere in a story
Then the (almost compulsory) journey through Narnia Then I was introduced to the Rudyard Kipling and Roald Dahl.......still the best fuel for a childs imagination IMO......until they reach for The Hobbit that is My favourite book as a child was The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe .......I still think of it whenever I eat Turkish Delight great sig Draken..........been a while since I listened to Aztec Camera |
10-01-2002, 06:49 PM | #11 |
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Hmmm. Let's see....
Enid Blyton (Secret seven, famous five, the ring-a-ding whatever they're called mysteries, the X of adventure series.) Anne of Green Gables - Been years since I read them, but they were enchanting. Huck Finn. Roald Dahl (BFG, George's Marvelous Medicine, the Twits.) Chronicles of Narnia (Lion, Magicians Nephew.) Oooh yes, Rudyard Kipling! Little Women. Then there's stuff like Jane Eyre and Wuthring heights, but I don't really think that the boy would like these. You could always try Moby Dick. I tried once when I was ten... didn't get very far. And then there's Tin Tin and Asterix... and there was this remarkable picture book series about Church Mice... can't remember their names. Oh, and Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy! But maybe that's a bit grown up...
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10-01-2002, 07:02 PM | #12 |
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I forgot Asterix .......... when a kid can read, and decipher, the names in an Asterix book......he's flying
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10-01-2002, 07:59 PM | #13 |
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i liked the boxcar children books a lot, and the american girls. i think i read some baby sitters little sisters books. like the little sisters of the baby sitters clubs. other than that, just random books. i read ella enchanted 3 times.
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10-01-2002, 08:13 PM | #14 |
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I read a lot of the previously posted:
Little Women Little House on the Prairie The Boxcar Children ("Oh!" cried Henry, "Oh!" cried Jessie, "Let's all cry!" cried Henry and Jessie--yeah, not the highest quality...) Anything and everything by L.Frank Baum I read a lot of the Black Stallion books, and the Marguerite Henry Books ("Misty of Chincoteague", "King of the Wind", etc Anything by L.M. Montgomery--favourite would be Magic for Marigold.
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Wow - great books! I'll have to try some of the ones I haven't read yet.
I saw one mention of E. Nesbit, but I'll mention her again. "5 Children and It" is really funny.
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10-01-2002, 08:33 PM | #16 |
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an author i never never liked was roald dahl. he really scared and disturbed me.
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10-01-2002, 08:50 PM | #17 |
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I thought of another:
Winnie ther Pooh (that's not a typo, read the ahem at the beginning) [edit: ahem=forward]
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10-02-2002, 11:30 AM | #18 |
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Haven't read any of the Harry Potter books, so don't know if these are at the same age/reading level, but they were my favorites when I was growing up:
The Wind in the Willows Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking-Glass the ORIGINAL Grimm's Fairy Tales (not the emasculated, Disney-fied, cleaned-up-so-they're-safe-for-consumers versions) ditto for Arabian Nights
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10-02-2002, 01:36 PM | #19 |
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how could I have forgotten alice in Wonderland??? (I can still quote the Walrus and the Carpenter in its entirety)
I somehow never could make it all the way through the Wind in the willows, but I will this summer, b/c it's on the syllabus for Children's Lit. more great mouse books: Stuart Little Runaway Ralph
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10-02-2002, 05:52 PM | #20 |
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Anyone ever read "Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH"? The memory's just about still there from when I was very young.
Cheers Osszie, the 80's songs need airing now and then I think. Just wondering what to follow it up with. Whatever happened to the Aztecs? (the group that is, not the indigenous meso-American empire, I've a fair idea what happened to that).
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