/lit/ - Literature

>>7203912
The Little Prince

Better to Never Have Been
The Bible
Anything by Evola

Really depends on the kid and their age/maturity/reading level.

No meme, Animal Farm 984 Enders Game and all that other STEM-tier stuff is pretty good for children. Don't try to force a child to be patrician right off the bat.

>>7203912
take them to a book store, let them pick..

kids have tastes like anyone else, why force them to read what they have no 'ownership of' or preference for? you'll only discourage them from reading that way, i think school does this to a lot of people..

>>7203912
Just let them pick at a book store, suggest some books like The Little Prince, Frog And Toad or The Wind and the Willows, otherwise just let them choose.

>>7203912
The Thirteen Clocks, A Man Who Was Thursday

>>7203912
Why call "lit" twice?

>>7203912

The Little House on the Prairie books

real danger

>>7203912
Redwall, always Redwall. Brian Jacques always got me excited to read when I was a kid and his writing holds a special place in my heart.

>>7203912
The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, Roald Dahl and The Wind in the Willows if they're younger than 8. If older then Lord of the Rings and whatever else /lit/ considers entry level

>>7204073
Oh my god I loved those books so much. I remember the day he died I just happened to google him to take a look at his Wikipedia page. I was devastated.

At the risk of being generic I would say Harry Potter.

>>7204073
>food

>>7204104
>songs

>>7204099
I cried a lot when he died, never thought I could be so upset of the death of an author.

>>7203912
Harry Potter's a given. Narnia should be good too.

>>7203912
mfw I read everything from the Pendragon Adventures

I suspect that at 20 it still informs my thoughts on morality and ethics

mfw Saint Dane ruined everything

Don't ruin somebody's life by projecting your autism onto them.

my dick tbh

>>7203996
You can suggest shit just like you would a friend
Also theyre kids so its ok to influence em a little, depending on how old they are, too, i guess. But first statement stands regardless.

>>7204628
I started this thread because I don't want my children to grow up as I did --nearly iliterate, only read if forced to do it by educational institutions--, as a pleb.

>>7204631
Reported for threats of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child

>>7204684
>being charged with thought crime

Lolita

>>7204684
>>7204684
>telling people when you report them
>not reading the rules

reminder that Cara is androgynous as fuck and anyone who thinks she is "top tier" is a closet homosexual.

>>7203912
Aesop's fables, Little Prince, Farenheit 451, Pippi Longstocking, Animal Farm, and Lord of the Flies are all easier level books for children. The books also have easily graspable concepts and themes.

>>7204699
>reading the rules

Redwall, Harry Potter, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Pratchett, Piers Anthony, ehh... calvin and hobbes? All of them are grade level "lit" in that they are complex and challenging and most of all, fun.

no twilight.

American Psycho

>>7204684
Reported for false reporting. 'my dick tbh' is the name of my diary tbh. Although I wouldn't say no to qt little boipvss

>ctrl+f
>no The Neverending Story

You should be ashamed of yourselves, /lit/.

>>7203912
Great Illustrated Classics

finnegans wake

>>7204783
Michael Ende hat mein Leben zerstört

>>7203912
How old? I remember loving Tom Sawyer / Huckleberry Finn as a kid.

>>7203912
How old is your kid OP? When I was just learning how to read my parents would pay me €2 for each book I read – for the first five or so books anyway. Then they stopped, but encouraged me to read more; which I did, as I had began to enjoy it. The books I read then were ones meant for small children – I’d advise against trying to make your kid into ‘patrician’ by forcing him to read classics; he’ll come to them on his own, years later, if it is to be so – so try to just find some age-appropriate books. Once he’s old enough make sure he has a library card and take him there every once in a while – if he so wishes, that is; you cannot make someone appreciate literature, not truly at least: that is something he must do by himself – and let him choose whatever he wants. This’ll be much, much cheaper – when I was 10–12 I used to read 3–6 books a week: if we had had to buy them all it would have cost a fortune – and allow him to just browse and read what he wants. I also disagree with /lit/’s stance on ‘bad literature’: I spent three years reading almost nothing but fantasy novels and I don’t find that time to be wasted or harmful; yes, I could have spent that time reading ‘better’ literature, but I don’t think I would have enjoyed it as much. I don’t read much genre fiction: the last sci-fi novel I remember reading was Dune – reading which just made me imagine how much more I would have enjoyed it had I read it earlier in life – and fantasy I haven’t read in half a decade.

Honestly, start with books that are popular among their peers. Depending on their age, that is. If the kid's between 3 and 6, go with some brilliant picture books. From 6 and up, start reading great classics like Astrid Lindgren books, Roald Dahl and Rudyard Kipling. if the child's older than that, around 10 and up, say, seriously just go with whatever is really popular among their friends, and also use the librarians for everything they're worth.

>>7203912
The bible. I'm not even joking.

>>7204795
This x100000000
These are the books that got me into literature. In elementary, you could always tell the patricians from the plebs by those white and red spines.

>>7204991
>>7204795
freindly reminder that a summary of the plot spark-notes style doesn't teach anyone what real literature is about

I mean it's probably a good bridge into adult reading and makes you feel good about yourself and reading, but it doesn't have any value. Each metaphor and allusion stripped down to the base plotpoints, as beatty said

if I had a kid I might start them when they were 9 those books and the hardy boys or other nonsense and then make a slow bridge into popular novels that are easy reads like 20000 leagues under the sea, etc. Then after that introduction to basic philosophy, have a book on greek histories/fables etc. Probaly the iliad and oddessy for around 14 and then the kid would probably just start reading the rest of the library
that's the way I was raised, although not deliberately, and I had a pretty good grounding going into high school
had a nasty time there though, was bullied and hazed quite a bit

i dunno about private schools, seems a bit sheltered for me but I guess you need a fertile place for learning, I certainly could have used one

The daughter of my previous boss looks identical to Cara at this age.

Read them stories from Ovid, Chaucher, and The 1,0001 Nights.

>>7204032
these and ANIMORPHS and A Series of Unfortunate Events

I first read Moby Dick because I was interested in the references made in ASOUE

>>7206042
... like the 1000 page unabridged novel?
how old where you when you did that?
you couldn't possibly have understood most of it in adolscence

Old Possums Book of Practical Cats

A Series of Unfortunate Events is pretty great

>>7204795
Oh man, I remember trying to find a copy of Great Expectations in that series when I was 9 or something. They didnt have it so I asked them to order me a copy, so they ordered the real book and 9 year old me was shocked at how anybody could read something that difficult

>>7204073
/thread

Bilbo, The Lord of the Rings, The Jungle Book, The Old Man and the Sea, Robinson Crusoe, Momo, The Neverending Story, Terry Pratchett stuff, Redwall series, the first three Earthsea books, abridged Count of Monte Cristo, abridged Three Musketeers.

>>7204799

I love Tocotronic

scar Wilde's The Happy Prince or his short stories to show the kid how despicable this world is (with added humour)

I'd also try Walter Moers's books esp the Zamonian series, they fall in btw kiddo and adult reading and Moers illustrates the books too, so I think his stuff would be good for kids.

The Narnia series is also good...

The secret seven, God I loved those books and still have the full set in the attic.

Also Redwall series for sure.

>>7203912
Nice pic.

>>7203912
Watership Down

>>7204795
>Moby-Dick reduced to that twink of a book.
Awful.

>>7209305
>not enjoying Twinky-Dick
kill yourself fag

>>7204798
Came here to post this.

The Neverending Story, Narnia, The Little Prince, Harry Potter later, Pratchett.

Also a fuckton of whatever shitty books he wants to buy. If he is not exposed to bad books, he won't learn to appreciate the good ones, and shitty stories can be fun too.

>>7203917
I just gave this one to my lil sis.

Edward Eager
E.Nesbitt
C.S. Lewis
Madeliene L'Engle
T.H. White

He said "starting level" people.

>>7204024
First time he means to say "literature" the second time he refers to the board.

>>7204700
Children will look that way, yes. So will obese people and the elderly. Why should we care what your standards of sexual attraction are, fuckhead?

>>7203912
Who is this seamen demon?

>>7210999
Pedo, be gone.