Also, the earlier Harry Potter books. I will happily admit that I have read them all several times over. You may well enjoy them as much as the little ones!
Bedtime story books for kids please
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RescueMe0007
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To School Through the Fields by Alice Taylor, very agreeable read.
Forgot about this one:
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Bambi, son of bambi, all by Felix Salten, written in 1939. Nothing like Disney. read them 2 years ago. Check out on flea bay. Get them for a fiver.
there is of course all the Enid blyton books. Funnily enough for a person who wrote childrens books she didn’t actually like them.
there is of course all the Enid blyton books. Funnily enough for a person who wrote childrens books she didn’t actually like them.
Deal with life’s disappointments nice and early:
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My two girls are 8 and 12. We have story-time every evening, usually going through a series of books, one-by-one.
Currently on the Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett.
Before that the CS Lewis Narnia series
Before that the Swallows & Amazon series. I don't agree with the comments above about them not being readable, my children were enchanted with them.
For long car journeys we use audio-books downloaded from our local library service. The Hobbit was great and lasted all the way to Scotland and back! Doesn't make the kids car-sick like staring at a screen.
Currently on the Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett.
Before that the CS Lewis Narnia series
Before that the Swallows & Amazon series. I don't agree with the comments above about them not being readable, my children were enchanted with them.
For long car journeys we use audio-books downloaded from our local library service. The Hobbit was great and lasted all the way to Scotland and back! Doesn't make the kids car-sick like staring at a screen.
Ooooh good call, hadn’t thought of either of those. Both well suitable. Funniest thing was with the modern version of the movie they called her tattie instead of titty. God bless political correctness.
RescueMe0007
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Watership Down by Richard Adams, can't believe it took me so long to think of it!
The series that my daughters really enjoyed at that age were the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingals Wilder. Lots of detail about living in the new frontiers in America, complete with some hunting and food prep scenes. Having a heroine made them really engaging too.
They enjoyed Brendon Chase, but the depth to it - e.g. Robin's first love and introspection - went a bit over their heads at 5 & 7. Give that a few years. Same with the Willard Price books. Now, at 8 & 10 they love them.
I read them Kings Solomon's Mines (abridged and illustrated) but Gagool gave them nightmares....
To be honest, unless you have some sort of savant children, at 4 & 6 they'll probably want The Enormous Crocodile & Revolting Rhymes(good!), Superworm (even better!) and David Walliams books (not good!), over and over again
They enjoyed Brendon Chase, but the depth to it - e.g. Robin's first love and introspection - went a bit over their heads at 5 & 7. Give that a few years. Same with the Willard Price books. Now, at 8 & 10 they love them.
I read them Kings Solomon's Mines (abridged and illustrated) but Gagool gave them nightmares....
To be honest, unless you have some sort of savant children, at 4 & 6 they'll probably want The Enormous Crocodile & Revolting Rhymes(good!), Superworm (even better!) and David Walliams books (not good!), over and over again
A childhood favourite of mine was Enid Blyton's The Secret Island. Again - running away from home. Four children living off the land on an island.
The kingdom by the sea by Robert Westall was another favourite
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Much as I deeply love Moby Dick, I only read my children a version with illustrations only where I had to add the texts. "Call me... Ishmael" etc. But it is a book of staggering complexity and subtlety, I mean, it needs some proper storytelling skill to make it make any sense to a small child. Just making it about a bloke who wants to kill a big white whale is simplistic and wrong. Explaining why he will lead everyone including himself to their deaths to do so doesn't work. But the kids do seem to understand the friendship of Ishmael and Queequeg. And some understanding that Ahab is just angry at a big fish that wants to be left alone.
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