/lit/ - Literature

>>18835411
Andy Griffiths was a genius at toilet humour

>>18835488
I didn't include them in the op, but obviously Alice in wonderland, and through the looking glass. I think series of unfortunate events is a noble attempt at Pomo kids lit. Harry Potter had some interesting use of free indirect discourse. As for classically literary writers who wrote children's books (thinking of Steinbeck) meh.

>>18835411
>imagine reading as a kid
fucking losers, you wasted your best years.

>>18835544
What was I supposed to do that I didn't?

>>18835533
A Series of Unfortunate Events filtered me as a kid and to this day I don't know what the point of the series was. I doubt it's worth going back to as an adult so I guess it'll just be a mystery to me forever.

>>18835411
Holy crap I had totally forgotten about this until now.

>>18835411
turned me into a male chauvinist at the tender age of 8yo tbqh senpai

>>18835544
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the double dubs speak the truth.

>>18835783
Parts of it are clever

>>18835411
Holy fuck this brings back so many memories. I've always been a scaredy cat, so I thought this would ease me into horror. It turned out to be super weird but my kid self loved it

>>18835967
Heh, yuuuup. That first book was so comfy, and then shit got real

>>18835967
Are the new books worth following up on, now that I'm a grown man? I keep away from female main characters these days

>>18835411
Unironically many of these short stories were creepy as all hell.
Whoever chose the cover art was a dick

My stupid parents bought me stupid faggot books instead of real literature. Then I got my first PC when I was 12 and played video games for 15 years before reading another book. My only bad habit now is being on this site too much

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>>18837923
Actual kino. I aspire to be like applegate and write books that will inspire kids to become sci-fi nerds

>>18835411
gave one of these to my nephew and he wont stop asking me for more every time he visits

>>18837988
Bone is the first book I got and read by myself. I won some school essay thing on 7th grade and I got bone.
I did want to get more as well but I never did.

>>18837935
Oh hell yes, that book was awesome. Better than the actual Animorphs books.

>>18835488
I read this guy as a kid.
what about paul jennings?

>>18835544
what the fuck do kids do anyway? I wasted my childhood practicing meme sports like Taekwondo because my kpop obsessed mom insisted on it

>>18837988
my parents bought me one of the books without realizing it was a sequel and even without knowing what was going on i reread it out of enjoyment a lot

>>18835411