[AccessD] Firday OT: What books do 8 years old kids reads and likesthere?

Hi Shamil
I largely agree with JC that there are lots of great books for children
today without necessarily going back to the classics, but if it's classics
you want I'll throw in some suggestions from this side of the pond:

I totally endorse Conan Doyle, I galloped through every Sherlock Holmes
story when I was .... well probably a little older but if your son's a good
reader....

I also loved:
the Hornblower series by C S Forester - great naval adventure stories
C S Lewis's Narnia books
Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings (again a bit later though)
Wind In The Willows (K Grahame)
Robinson Crusoe (D Defoe)
Treasure Island (R L Stevenson)
Watership Down (R Adams)

I agree with Alice In Wonderland and Jules Verne too.

I (almost) guarantee that he'd adore the Winnie The Pooh stories. Not cool,
and he might not want to tell his friends, but they are impossible not to
love.

My kids devoured Roald Dahl's children's books which have become modern
classics. Terrific stories.

Another thought (I'm having fun here) is Antoine De Saint Exupery's The
Little Prince. Just wonderful.

I could no doubt go on but that's probably enough of my rambling.

Have fun

Andy




As regards The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature, I don't know it
and 
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Subject: [AccessD] Firday OT: What books do 8 years old kids reads and
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Hi All,

 

I wanted to order some books in English from Amazon for my son.

 

Well, I should note my son is awaiting for several "Bakugan Battle Brawlers
Game Single LOOSE Figures" to come delivered from Amazon not books - the
kids are "crazy" about Bakugans here now and the best choice of these toys
is currently presented on Amazon.

 

And I wanted to use this opportunity to buy some books together with
Bakugans but not the very well known here books as e.g of the following
classic authors

 

Jack London, 

Mark Twain, 

Rudyard Kipling, 

Astrid Lindgren,

Brothers Grimm,

Charles Perrault, 

Hans Christian Andersen, 

Lewis Carroll, 

Frank Baum,

Carlo Collodi, 

James Fennimore Cooper, 

Jules Verne, 

Arthur Conan Doyle

.

 

But some other more rare books your kids read there at age of 8.

 

Could you please advise such books?

 

Would "The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in
English" by Jack Zipes (Editor), Lissa Paul (Editor), Lynne Vallone
(Editor), Peter Hunt (Editor), Gillian Avery (Editor)  be a good choice now
for me to read it with my son to get more informed about your children's'
literature, and to purchase some more books  in the future?

 

Thank you.

 

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Shamil

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