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

I have to add something...

I suggest you start by only buying a few fiction and a few non-fiction.  My
son (10 now) is board after about 4 pages of fiction, but hand him some
non-fiction and he'll destroy it.  As a 2nd grader (when he was 7/8) he read
every 2nd and 3rd grade non-fiction book that was in the school's reading
program plus what he got from the library every week.  My daughter
(currently 8) leans toward non-fiction, but dabbles in both.

My point is don't load up on fiction until you know the kid likes fiction.  

BTW, I'm the same way - fiction bores me.

Reuben Cummings
GFC, LLC
812.523.1017


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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Firday OT: What books do 8 years old 
> kids reads andlikesthere?
> 
> 
> 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 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil
> Salakhetdinov
> Sent: 09 October 2009 13:43
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: [AccessD] Firday OT: What books do 8 years old kids reads and
> likesthere?
> 
> 
> 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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