/lit/ - Literature

>>14744892
Sorry, I was in university when those came out. These are my childhood memories.

>>13767753

>>13709242
My parents started me with pic related long ago, and it was great. Simplified but well-written versions with some great lines from the original sprinkled through to make you seek out the originals later. To be clear, they only bowdlerized older work like Andersen, Arthur or Shakespeare: any actual novels like Treasure Island or Tom Swift had the original text.

>>13519378
She read a wide range, from Agatha Christie to Tolstoy. More importantly she was a circuit librarian buying books and coordinating volunteers for a dozen elementary school libraries in the country, and between the boxes I plundered before they went to the schools, the 20 books a week she let me borrow from the public library, the used book stores she took me shopping in on weekends (she collected antique children's books and other volumes of interest) and books my parents bought me, I grew up constantly surrounded by good reading material.

Read them books, have books around the house, give them books. Limit screen time sharply, never let them have their own electronic device. That's what I'm doing, and that's what my parents did with me (they had an easier time of it, since devices and the net were much less integrated).

>>10845173
I read a lot as a kid, but then my parents bought me this set used for $20 and changed my life.