/lit/ - Literature

Harry Potter
His Dark Materials
Railsea and Un Lun Dun
The Neil Gaiman kid's books

Hows working in a library? Are you a milf-y librarian?

>>3103613
It's so-so. I like helping people and some of the staff are extremely friendly, but many of the other librarians are old and seem to hate working there.

>>3103623
but are you a milf-y librarian?

>>3103594
The Ranger's Apprentice Series is usually pretty well-loved by that age group.

>>3103626
No, I'm a guy.

>>3103630
can you pretend, just for me?

>>3103631
Nah bro, I'd rather die than recommend a Goosebumps book.

>>3103623

I always wanted to be a librarian, but the thought of seeing all those books that get ripped, and dirtied, and have dicks drawn all through them makes me sad.

I was big on Redwall at that age...

>>3103634
I've never seen it happen. I'm often stuck in the kid's area because there are pissloads of books in there and the most frequent problem tends to be little kids who don't know how to behave in a public place.
Also for some reason, teens a lot of times just crash in a corner in the kid's area. It's not even like they are poor, they will be pulling out laptops and ipods and cellphones so I really have no idea why they would want to hang out in the kid's section of the public library.

Off the top of my head, my daughter said Warrior Cats and anything else by Erin Hunter, the Divergent series by Veronica Roth, Maximum Ride by James Patterson, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books by Jeff Kinney, Hush Hush (can't remember the author), Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch.

I'd say anything by Beverly Cleary.

The Bromeliad Trilogy by Terry Pratchett.
Anything by Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking, Ronia the Robber's Daughter, and The Brother's Lionheart are all classics)

When they're 12 they can read The Hobbit for sure, and it's an awesome kids book.


I'm a bit handicapped because I didn't grow up in an english speaking country and some of the best childrens/YA authors I know aren't translated. (Bjarne Reuter, Ole Lund Kirkegaard, and Dennis Jürgensen, they all write/wrote childrens / YA lit that boys and girls both would want to read and won a lot of praise, but none of it has been translated to english)

Some of the series I have heard of but never read myself are Artemis Fowl and The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Of course there's always Harry Potter.

I loved Tintin when I was a kid, but I don't know if your library has comicbooks. I suppose they don't qualify as "books", but they're at least as good!

Goosebumps is really a great place to start when it comes to reading OP, they're enjoyable for new readers, and if they read anything else afterwards, it comes across as being mind-blowing compared to the mess that is most Goosebump books.

get them started on misogyny early in life OP.
Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler are wonderful for this, smacking your bitch up is cool kids!

The Great Gatsby. It's kind of screwed up, and it's really depressing, but it's a good story with excellent vocabulary usage. But it doesn't have so much scholarly vocabulary that the kid will quit reading. It has a fair bit of cursing though...

>>3103738
I don't think 10-year-olds are that into stories about the futility of dreams under capitalism.

Redwall series
Edge Chronicles (great illustrations and story)
The Hobbit
King Solomon's Mines

Series of Unfortunate Events
The Tomorrow When the War Began Series

Trust me.

Animorphs is obvious answer. Expose the child to the horrors of war early on to preempt any state brainwashing.

>>3103752
You don't have to get all of the symbolism to appreciate the content.

That said, I do think it's a bit beyond anyone under 12.

>what are good books for kids around 8-12.

General psychology books are good for the 8-10 range, their little brains are so easy to understand. When you get to 12 though, they are much more self aware and you really have to work hard, especially if they belong to a stranger. Some medical books will give you good info on how to reduce bruising, this can be very important. Umm, if your paranoid, then obviously the forensic books are a must read.

>>3103752
better go with Animal Farm

Do people even make choose-your-own-adventure books anymore? Anyway, children's atlases are always really neat.

>>3103594
Ask them to provide a picture of their kid. If they are wearing 1. A douchey hat 2. Lulu lemon I was 3. Beatz by Dr. Dre, give them Twilight or a picture novel. Jesus, when I was 12 I was reading Dan Brown, it all depends on the kid.

>>3103893
So if they are wearing 'A douchey hat,' they will definitely like Twilight. Are you still reading Dan Brown?

>>3103875
Get that out of your name field mister.

OP
The Myths, by Robert Graves.
Aesop's Fables
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, by George Saunders
Pippi Långstrump, by Astrid Lindgren
Tove Jansson's Moomin books and others I think
Sunset At Blandings, or any other, by P. G. Wodehouse
The White Deer, by James Thurber
The Magic of Reality, by Richard Dawkins
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Stories & Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children, by Harold Bloom
Freethinkers, by Susan Jacoby
The Tao of Pooh, and The Te of Piglet, by Benjamin Hoff
Twain, Grimm, Dickens, Hume, Paine, and all those in the Bloom book.

Obviously some for the eight year olds and others for the twelve year olds.

>>3103931

>Ages 8-12
>that list

LOL what an absolute idiot.

>>3103986
It's not me. It's some militant atheist feminist that keeps hijacking my moniker. Whoever it is is autistic though, and can't really be blamed.

>>3104001
I'm not militant.

Are you high now or something?

>>3103986
Explain please.

>>3104038
>I'm not militant.
Yes you are. Both in atheism, feminism, and some political issues.

>Are you high now or something?
Yes, extremely.

That's what you get for being an icon/symbolfag.

Hurr ima burrfly

>>3104065
Yes we are.

>>3104049
Atheist level 8, anti-theist level 5.
Rational feminist who will easily disassociate myself from crazies (Like Naomi Wolf. Poor nutter) and admit there should be some better equalities given to men.
Politics are different. One should be sure of them but not worry too much about labels. I am pro-revolution though

>>3104058
Go ahead. Make it the default anonymous. How dull

And it was never supposed to be a "butterfly"

>>3103986
What do you dislike about my list? Bitch.

>>3103633
I don't like you...

>>3104049

Not a 'militant', just a dipshit with few original thoughts and pretty much nothing of value to contribute to this board. Which isn't to imply that the majority of /lit/-users are much better.

>>3104073
>Atheist level 8, anti-theist level 5.

Faggot level 10.

>>3104121
>Implying I'd give my original thoughts on this board

>>3103594
first of all, OP, you work in a library and you don't know how to recommend the books you loved when you were 8-12? Do you even read?

fucking Narnia. Bridge to Terrebithia. pic related. etc.

percy jackson

maximum ride

Redwall
Narnia
Jennings series
Kevin Crossley-Holland - Arthur trilogy
Some Pratchett - ie Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

>>3104195
>RedwallRedwallRedwall
I liked Marlfox the most
I always name my main in any MMORPG Songbreeze if I can^^;

>>3103594
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Johnathan Stroud

Narnia
Artemis Fowl

I think I read a Puffin Classics edition of The Adventures of Robin Hood when I was around that age, maybe something like that.

Potter.

Sloths are the most inherently funny animals alive, I can't see one without cracking up.

Prove me wrong.

>>3104184
Hey man, I just read stuff like the Hobbit or the Amber series and I don't know if all kids would like the latter. I usually just say Roald Dahl.

>>3104241
fuck. yes.

>>3104291
You silly sloth why do you have sunglasses, you don't need those and they aren't even on properly silly sloth.

NOBODY MENTIONED PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH
FUCK ALL OF YOU WORTHLESS NIGGERS

Peter Pan
Alice in Wonderland

Goosebumps, loved em as a kid, read em, by memory I'd recommend the snowman one, the one with the class from years ago (1952 I believe), and one where this kid wakes up in a different place every-time, seriously, don't just read this and think of me as some shallow minded rose tinted nostalgia google idiot, actually read them, all that matters is if you enjoy the book, anyone who disagrees is the equivalent of someone who refuses to play a Wii because it's too casual.

Seventh Tower by Garth Nix
Was awesome

Hatchet

Coraline
His Dark Materials

>>3104291
You think the platypus is trying too hard?