dirac Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Nicholas Kristof, presumably at loose ends for a column, puts together a list of best-ever children’s books. These are classics, sure, but they’re also on the older side, and there are some notable omissions. Which books would you add to the list? And are there more contemporary titles from the last couple of decades or so that are great reads for kids? Link to comment
PeggyR Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 I'd add E. Nesbit's The Five Children and It and The Story of the Amulet. She wrote other well known children's novels, but these are the two I remember reading over and over and over. Link to comment
cubanmiamiboy Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 There's an old thread on this, but I'll repeat myself to add again: Enid Blyton's collection. Link to comment
sandik Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 When I saw this I thought "where is the Louisa May Alcott" but perhaps she is too old-fashioned for this list. My son and his cohort (now 15) all zoomed through the Alex Rider books -- if you like those you might look at Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series. Link to comment
cubanmiamiboy Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 I must add that I totally agree with Kristoff's #1 choice. As a kid my first encounter with "Charlotte's Web" wasn't through the book, but the old cartoon/movie, and I still have beautiful memories of it. Link to comment
LiLing Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Kristof's list is for older kids. Here are some for the preschool set. The Olivia books by Ian Falconer She is a little diva pig. She has pictures of Eleanor Roosevelt and Martha Graham on her walls! Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Pierre, and everything else Maurice Sendak has ever written for children. Link to comment
Petra Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 I firmly believe that a classic remains a classic and I tend to 'feed' my children the books I grew up on, from Mother Goose through Dr Suess to CS Lewis. That said, some really great contemporary books are: Preschool: In addition to LiLing's books, anything by Alan Ahlberg (Each Peach Pear Plum) and most anything by Julia Donaldson (The Gruffalo, The Snail and the Whale). Grade school: Harry Potter obviously, and also Eva Ibbotson (Which Witch, The Secret of Platform 13). Link to comment
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