/lit/ - Literature

>>15898423
White Fragility
Get them understanding their sins early

>not aborting your kids

yikes!

>>15898423
The Phantom Tollbooth.

>>15898423
Chronicles of Narnia

Kids books are unironically a meme, just make them read Plato and other discussion books.

>>15899789
Plato sucks, kids books rule

The Borrowers — Mary Norton
The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Children of Noisy Village — Astrid Lindgren
When Marnie Was There — Joan G. Robinson
Swallows and Amazons — Arthur Ransome
The Flying Classroom — Erich Kästner
There Were Five of Us — Karel Poláček
What the Neighbours Did, and Other Stories — Ann Philippa Pearce
Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates — Mary Mapes Dodge
The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Eagle of The Ninth — Rosemary Sutcliff
The Treasure of the Nibelungs — Gustav Schalk
The Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas
A Wizard of Earthsea — Ursula K. Le Guin
Les Princes du Vent — Michel-Aime Baudouy
The Flambards Series — K. M. Peyton
Souvenirs entomologiques — Jean Henri Fabre
The Long Winter — Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Norwegian Farm — Marie Hamsun
Heidi — Johanna Spyri
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain
Little Lord Fauntleroy — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Tistou of the Green Thumbs — Maurice Druon
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler — E. L. Konigsburg
The Otterbury Incident — Cecil Day-Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll
The Little Bookroom — Eleanor Farjeon
The Forest is Alive or Twelve Months — Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak
The Restaurant of Many Orders — Kenji Miyazawa
Winnie-the-Pooh — A. A. Milne
Nihon Ryōiki — Kyokai
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio — Pu Songling
Nine Fairy Tales: And One More Thrown in For Good Measure — Karel Čapek
The Man Who Has Planted Welsh Onions — Kim So-un
Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe
The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien
Journey to the West — Wu Cheng'en
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea — Jules Verne
The Adventures of the Little Onion — Gianni Rodari
Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson
The Ship that Flew — Hilda Winifred Lewis
The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame
The Little Humpbacked Horse — Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov (Ershoff)
The Little White Horse — Elizabeth Goudge
The Rose and the Ring — William Makepeace Thackeray
The Radium Woman — Eleanor Doorly
City Neighbor, The Story of Jane Addams — Clara Ingram Judson
Ivan the Fool — Leo Tolstoy
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle — Hugh Lofting
The Moomins — Tove Jansson

>>15898423
this
one my Mom's favorites

Please put me back in water...

>>15899977
Did you actually read every single one of these?

>>15898423
mein kampf

WE NEED TO MEME PIC RELATED BACK INTO EXISTENCE

>>15899977
Awesome. Add D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths and Book of Norse Myths.

>>15899996
Not him, but a huge amount of those made up my childhood reading, I had read the complete works of many of those authors by the time I left primary school. It is mising Kipling and London.

>>15900045
Nabokov read all of those (retroactively) in the womb. He read Tolstoy as a toddler.

>>15900031
anyone got a reading list for this?

>>15900063

>>15900097
kek

>>15898423
Keep in mind that Capitalism's contribution to the genre is a book called "Ragged Dick" written by a confirmed pedophile/rapist by the name of Horatio Alger, Jr.

>>15898423
Alice in Wonderland
The Little Prince

Are you imply Where the Wild Things Are is a children’s book?

>>15899780
Came here to say this

Roald Dahl

>>15898423
a lot of Alex Shearer

>>15898423
For sci-fi/fantasy, it's Diana Wynne Jones, Philip Reeve, and Eioeiwyn Colfer for me