To: Ilaine who wrote (37104 ) 5/8/1999 11:20:00 AM From: epicure Read Replies (2) | Respond to
For children (older children)- the Bible, the Greek, Roman and Norse myths, the Indian and American Indian creation stories, some of the Chinese and Japanese fables, The Chronicles of Narnia, all the Roald Dahl books, The Oz Books, Charlotte's Web and the other EB White stories, a good compendium of poetry (Talking to the Sun by MOMA is good), The Little House series (for girls, really), The gray King series, The Little Prince, Sarah Plain and Tall, Caddie Woodlawn, Anne of Green Gables and the other Anne stories, Island of the BLue Dolphins, White Fang, Call of the Wild, the Fenimore Cooper books, The Yearling, The black Arrow, Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Secret Garden, The Little Princess, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Just So Stories, Rootabega Stories (Carl Sandburg), Robin Hood, King Arthur, Irish Fables and Folk tales, Aesop's Fable's, the Brother's Grimm, Tolkein, The Redwall Chronicles. We have a bookcase of beautiful books for the kids which I bought because they were "keepers"- what I listed above is some of what is in that bookcase. My daughter likes all of the books listed above- but she is 9 and reads everything. My son who is 7 likes OZ. I tried to read him the Little Prince, because I like it, but he wouldn't have it. So we went back to Oz. Of course we have all the baby sitter's books and Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys and the Boxcar children, and Goosebumps, but I have read a few of those books and while I don't think they are harmful (heck, they might build a bit of vocabulary) they aren't going to educate much. We also have all the American Girls books- and that new series of "Dear America" books which has stories abotu girls at times of special historic significance.
