lit for little girls

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lit for little girls Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 02:44:13 No.17238838 [Reply] [Original]

sup /lit/ /fit/ here

My nephew is into reading and while I am not much of a scholar there were some books that helped me (i think) grow as a kid and I have gotten him copies (Dune, Stranger in a Strange land, Hitchhiker's Guide etc.)

He has a 9. year old little sister. She is not as inquisitive as he is and likes typical girl things such as dancing and playing dress up with lots of clothes and dolls etc... I feel the gifts of books I have given my nephew will be remembered by him as he is a lot like me at that age and will love Dune. I have been leaving his sister out.

What books can I get her that she will read and like? Something for a girl who is smart but does not read for pleasure very much. I feel bad getting my nephew such what I consider to be important things and leaving her out

any ideas /lit/?

I was thinking "a wrinkle in time" because the protagonist is a young female, but I think it would be too sci-fi/fantasy for her and she would not be into it

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 02:45:34 No.17238847 >>17238838 lolita

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 02:48:51 No.17238866 Call of the Arcade by F. Gardner.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 02:48:59 No.17238867 File: 312 KB, 716x542, lazytown_oh_you.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17238847 >lolita

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 02:52:31 No.17238884 >>17238866 nice double dubs Is that a horror novel?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 02:54:33 No.17238898 >>17238866 Yep.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 02:57:18 No.17238909 >>17238838 journey to the end of the night

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 02:59:50 No.17238925 Anything listed here. https://www.openculture.com/2017/05/hayao-miyazaki-picks-his-50-favorite-childrens-books.html

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 03:17:02 No.17239018 >>17238838 Protector of the Small series by Tamora Pierce

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 03:18:19 No.17239024 >>17238838 Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 03:21:41 No.17239041 Astrid Lindgren is probably perfect for that age. If you can find her short stories go for that, I don’t know how much she’s translated.

Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 03:38:58 No.17239098

>>17238838
The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton was my favorite read when I was her age, but when I remember my nieces it might not be bad to look into what kind of girly cartoons she likes and try to find books that accompany said cartoon. I still see Winx books around, but I don't know about the cartoon itself. If they make you cringe, just remember it's a starter to serious reading, not the main thing.
But if you really want to be her favorite uncle, get her one of those activity books where she has to draw clothes on a model and cut out patterns to complete the design, my nieces always asked for those.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 04:19:58 No.17239227 File: 1.96 MB, 1918x1434, 1559732164847.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17238838 There's another that's more pedoish but can't find it on warosu

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 07:07:52 No.17239926 >>17238838 anne of green gables

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 07:10:15 No.17239936 >>17238838 Let her pick a book or something, anon.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 10:07:17 No.17240667 >>17239936 >Let her pick a book or something, anon. she's 8 what does she know about picking books

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 10:09:16 No.17240677 >>17240667 KEK, anon. Guide her a bit and let her pick one. Check her choice, if it seems reasonable let her have it.

Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 10:26:30 No.17240760

>>17240677
>KEK, anon. Guide her a bit and let her pick one. Check her choice, if it seems reasonable let her have it.
i am looking for guidance here brah, I don't know anything about literature targeted to or apporpaite for 8yo girls. I would not know where to start

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 10:42:16 No.17240849 Tom and The Two Handles....best children’s book ever.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 11:00:21 No.17240983 >>17238838 The Last Unicorn, Peter Beagle. I’d recommend you read it to, and your nephew, and all the jaded sociopaths saying things like Lolita.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 11:02:06 No.17240990 >>17240760 I love reading, and it’s largely because my dad would recommend me books whenever I asked. You’re doing the right thing here.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 11:46:40 No.17241223 >>17240990 >I love reading, and it’s largely because my dad would recommend me books whenever I asked. You’re doing the right thing here. ----- >asking 4chan what books to get for a loli relative >right thing pick one

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 11:48:13 No.17241239 >>17240760 FFS are you unironically unable to skim a 30 page children book in less than 2 minutes (and I'm being very generous)?

hungryman !!5BI0oSV9uvS Sat, Jan 9, 2021 11:48:13 No.17241241
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>>17238838
9 is an awkward age because I feel like that's when I had moved on to chapter books. But as a child my mother used to read me this, in the vein of good books for children.
Also, Roald Dahl is 10/10 childrens lit, at least from when I remember reading him.

Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 12:09:47 No.17241394
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>>17241239
>FFS are you unironically unable to skim a 30 page children book in less than 2 minutes (and I'm being very generous)?
Many children's books are easily five times longer than that or more. While I could skim any one or a few books I could not skim 50 of them to pick out the best one for a child to read and gain life lessons from at that age (especially a female) so really I am asking for someone who has read a lot of children's books (preferable a girl (female)) to tell me what books gave them meaningful insight at that age to life.

For me the James Herriot books did that (the 4 novels not th short stories) at about the age of 8-10. But something else might resonate with a little girl

Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 12:11:21 No.17241405

>>17241241
do you think a little girl who is not much into reading would read a Dahl book all the way through?

I am really trying to get her something she will read and get meaning from and not just look at and put on a shelf and never read because it was intimidating or too esoteric

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 12:15:54 No.17241426 >>17238838 A Little Princess It has princess in the name so she is guaranteed to try it Also Charlotte Sometimes, Marianne Dreams, Pippi Longstocking are good

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 12:16:52 No.17241434 >>17241394 Unironically? Do you even lit, bro? I'm serious. You are complaining that you are unable to quick check a children's book. And just take her to some random bookstore, then let her pick something.

Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 12:29:51 No.17241509

>>17239098
>But if you really want to be her favorite uncle, get her one of those activity books where she has to draw clothes on a model and cut out patterns to complete the design, my nieces always asked for those.
that feels wrong to me

I want her to be a smart girl, i wish she read more

Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 12:34:32 No.17241544
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>>17241434
>Unironically? Do you even lit, bro? I'm serious. You are complaining that you are unable to quick check a children's book. And just take her to some random bookstore, then let her pick something.
I am not complaining about that at all. I am saying I am from /fit/ and I would say I read an above average amount as a kid but but not so much that it was part of my identity.

If I tired to read 10 kids books to pick one for her that would have meaning that's 1000 pages.

additionally I am a grown man and I what I think is good may not be the kind of thing that a female (girl) child would read and get great meaning from in her formative years. I am more trying to ask girls what they read and got great meaning from at that age...

which i think is perfectly sensible

Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 12:39:18 No.17241572

>>17241509
My older niece hated reading as a kid, in her class she was among the kids that took the longest time to learn how to read, would literally cry if we tried to encourage her to read the fairy tales on her own. As she moved further through school her attitude towards reading changed without any of us influencing it and she is now an excellent student in high school. Just let things take its course, forcing it will only create opposite reaction.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 12:40:45 No.17241583 >>17238838 Judy blume

Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 14:05:08 No.17242260

>>17238838
Taylor Swift is a man
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Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 14:10:38 No.17242299

>>17241544
KEK anon, I think you got me wrong. It is her pick and you just check. You are trying to get her into reading. Don't skip stuff. Get something that she feel like reading. Don't push her into some random Greek stuff some anons might suggest.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 14:14:04 No.17242323 >>17239227 The Ice Palace should be on that list. I also really, REALLY recommend the movie...

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 14:25:32 No.17242413 >>17242260 Incel sees what women look like without makeup and assume all are men. Hilarious.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 15:45:49 No.17242997 >>17238925 very good, anon

Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 15:59:32 No.17243094

>>17238838
>The Hazel Wood, Melissa Albert
Other two volumes just came out, first starts with a Yeats quote — a surprisingly lit young adult fiction take with some Borges/Auster gloss, like that Coraline film as a CS Lewis novel. Prose is simple, it should be accessible

>>17240983
This, the animated one is kino too (flight of dragons in the same vein)

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 16:02:07 No.17243113 >>17238838 "Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l'usage des maisons d'éducation" by Louÿs

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 16:04:34 No.17243128 >>17238838 Get her some comic books, anon. Unironically. I don't know what the sell those days. But just ask some random store clerk what kids of her age are into these days and get her one.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 17:31:02 No.17243752 >>17238838 Just take her to bookstore and let her pick out a few she wants. Show her some she might like and let her decide.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 17:45:23 No.17243860 Heidi Ella Enchanted Alice in Wonderland The Wizard of Oz The Thief Lord

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 18:54:41 No.17244340 >>17241405 Not him but Dahl is dope, I read him at that age.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 20:59:22 No.17245106 >>17243860 >Heidi >Alice in Wonderland >The Wizard of Oz that stuff just seems so old, i wonder if kids now can even relate

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 23:49:05 No.17246224 File: 69 KB, 614x614, giphy (2).gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17238838 https://www.deviantart.com/uthp/journal/The-Legend-of-Twilight-Zelda-Princess-part-I-348420007

>>	Anonymous Sat, Jan 9, 2021 23:50:33 No.17246239 >>17242323 Read it friend it's all yours c:

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 10, 2021 00:17:28 No.17246411 >>17238838 Start with the greeks

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 10, 2021 00:46:51 No.17246615 >>17242323 >I also really, REALLY recommend the movie... Wtf are you trying to say here? That that movie has some kind of CP in it? Weird...

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 10, 2021 01:06:33 No.17246735 >>17238847 thead/

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 10, 2021 01:08:40 No.17246749 >>17245106 It's timeless.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 10, 2021 01:12:05 No.17246765 >>17238847 Came here for this FPBP

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 10, 2021 01:51:57 No.17247002 >>17246224 Idk why but this shit is like a car wreck for me, I can’t stop reading it

Anonymous Sun, Jan 10, 2021 01:57:26 No.17247032

>>17238838
Louis Stevenson
Lewis Carroll
Jonathan Swift
Alexander Pope's Homer
Pope's poems
Some Shakespeare (Tempest, Midsummer Night's Dream)
Robinson Crusoe
Family-friendly selection of the Arabian Nights
Jack London's dog books
Edward Lear
Some anthology of light verse

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 10, 2021 02:34:01 No.17247195 >>17238838 The same stuff adult women read. Barring romance.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 10, 2021 02:37:24 No.17247206 >>17238866 Wouldn’t she have needed to read the previous ones?

>>	Anonymous Sun, Jan 10, 2021 04:22:33 No.17247542 >>17247195 >Barring romance.

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