/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3198254]

What's some good children's literature?

[Anonymous No.3198295]

Animorphs contains every theme under the sun.

Sure, there are some shitty ghost-written books in there, but god damn every kid should read Animorphs, especially in these days of constant warfare in the mideast.

[Anonymous No.3198299]

Michael Ende's Momo without a doubt. Also the Never ending story.

[Anonymous No.3198308]

Deltora Quest.

[Anonymous No.3198324]

With children/young adults as main characters.
To Kill A Mocking Bird
The Sound and the Fury
The Summer Book / Sculptors Daughter
Lord of the Flies
Dandelion Wine / Something Wicked This Way Comes / The Illustrated Man
The Famished Road
Nine Stories(Salinger)
All the Pretty Horses

Childrens literature
As your picture shows, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Peter Pan
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Harry Potter( I personally feel it's only amazing when you're a child)
Nation(Pratchett)
Coraline
Anything by Kenji Miyazawa / Night of the Milky Way Railway
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huck Finn too but I much rather Tom Sawyer
Tove Jansson's Moomin series
The Little Prince
the Hobbitt

[Anonymous No.3198332]

The Phantom Tollbooth

it's the best

[Anonymous No.3198358]

>>3198332
I second this recommendation.

[Rei !p8eYCadcMo No.3198363]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is god tier.

[Anonymous No.3198365]

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Winnie the Pooh - Winnie the Pooh
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

[Anonymous No.3198366]

A Song of Ice and Fire.


Oh, wait, you said good. Carry on.

[Anonymous No.3198369]

>>3198363
That's kind of bad for children's literature then because it could be a lot better.

[Anonymous No.3198372]

[Anonymous No.3198373]

>>3198366
Ooooo burnnnnnnn

[Rei !p8eYCadcMo No.3198378]

>>3198369
Way over your fucking head faggot.

Reread it and do Jungian analysis of it.

You never had AIWS or any existential bizarre feelings during your consciousness growth as a child because you are stupid.

[Anonymous No.3198386]

>>3198378

>existential bizarre feelings during your consciousness growth as a child

Holy fuck, I'm not him, but you just reminded me of something I haven't thought of in sixteen years

[Anonymous No.3198389]

>>3198378
She did this, then did that, then went there and did that. Barley any descriptions, prose could be much better, doesn't have a very good flow.

It's for children though so my critique doesn't count, if people were to say it's for adults then it would.

[Rei !p8eYCadcMo No.3198391]

>>3198386
Elaborate

[Anonymous No.3198393]

>>3198366

>ice and fire

>kids

Your kids are going to be...ehhh...different.

[Anonymous No.3198396]

If you're 10 you may critique it.

[Anonymous No.3198404]

>>3198324
great list.

I always make it a point to recommend pic related and sequels in these threads, OP.

[Anonymous No.3198405]

[Anonymous No.3198410]

>>3198404
Thanks and thanks for the recommendation, I really want to read that now.

[Anonymous No.3198464]

>>3198295

Words cannot express my satisfaction that this is the first comment.

Really, OP, Animorphs in its totality is one of the pinnacles of children's/YA literature. If you're looking for actual character development and resonant themes, it's the series to read. Expect a universe of gray morality; it doesn't use the black-and-white, coddle-the-characters approach of a series like Harry Potter. The tagline for the first book actually sums up the series very well: "Some people never change. Some do..."

While you shouldn't expect anything stylistically, the simple language is a refreshing reminder that great stories can be told using the simplest of language and narrative devices.

Find the .pdfs and download them. Definitely worth reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animorphs

[Anonymous No.3198467]

The entire redwall series.
Seriously thinking about buying the whole collection in hardback sometime in the future.

[Anonymous No.3198468]

>>3198404

My nigga right here.

[Rei !p8eYCadcMo No.3198469]

>>3198295
>>3198464
THE LAST BOOK WAS SHIT THOUGH

Other than that yeah I fucking loved them as a kid and read almost all of them

[Anonymous No.3198480]

>>3198469
Agreed. She really pissed me off when she said at the end of the book "hurr durr they went out like they started: fighting". Fuck you, thats a bullshit answer. And the last few books leading up to it were so fucking good too. My first major disappointment as a child, I think.

[Anonymous No.3198483]

>>3198469

Last book, upon reread, was great too. If you consider the entire arc of the series, some of the decisions made by Applegate in the last book seem pretty natural extensions of the characters' paths.

Big fat spoilers:

Applegate once said this about the ending: "I'd always known that Animorphs would end the way it did. I knew I wanted it to end with victory, but I also knew I didn't want a clean victory. I wanted more Lord of the Rings, less Star Wars in the ending. I always admired the way Tolkien gave his characters victory, but left them with a sadder, less exciting, less enchanting world in the end."

[Anonymous No.3198488]

>>3198480

Keep in mind, I don't think the end would've necessarily been a suicide. Despite Jake's order, it was such a tense situation that anything could've changed at any moment. It was a huge cliffhanger, sure, but hardly the catastrophe people make it out to be. I like it much better today than I did when I read it as a kid.

[Anonymous No.3198490]

>>3198469
>>3198480
>>3198483

I named my daughter after you-know-who.

[Anonymous No.3198494]

>>3198488
Still bullshit, man. Whats the point? Why leave it that way?

[Anonymous No.3198502]

>>3198494

As in life, nothing was wrapped up neatly and in a way all parties involved were happy with.

[Anonymous No.3198539]

>>3198490
Lolita?

[Anonymous No.3198560]

anything and everything by john bellairs.

[Anonymous No.3198564]

>>3198539
Rachel

[sage No.3198954]

>>3198254
google.

[Anonymous No.3198957]

>>3198363
I disagree.
I recently re read it for the first time in a long time and I found the ending to be mediocre.

[Anonymous No.3198962]

A series of unfortunate events are nice books.
The little prince is also interesting.

[Anonymous No.3198964]

>>3198372
I agree.
The animated film is also very strange, in a good way.

[Anonymous No.3198968]

>>3198378
>Alice in Wonderland
>Reread it and do Jungian analysis of it.
>Alice in Wonderland
Oh, god, here come the fucking pseudo intellectuals.

[Anonymous No.3198971]

found this book on a Border's clearance table and my kid (he's grown now) loved it - subversive as hell

[Anonymous No.3198975]

>>3198396
Third one is best.
Fifth and Seventh books are mediocre.

[Anonymous No.3198981]

>>3198467
I remember watching an animated series based off the redwall books probably about 10 years a go.
It was long winded.

[Anonymous No.3199062]

Bertie Comes Through


DFW read it many times as a kid.

[Anonymous No.3199300]

>>3198467
Heard about that show. Of course it's going to suck compared to the actual books.
Have you even read any of the books?

[Rei !p8eYCadcMo No.3199585]

>>3198968
>Oh, god, here come the fucking pseudo intellectuals.

Ah... the argument of the plebeian and the ignorant.

[Anonymous No.3199586]

>>3199062
>DFW read it many times as a kid.
So what? Jesus fucking christ.

[Anonymous No.3199589]

>>3199300
No, I don't really read.

[Anonymous No.3199596]

>>3199585
Please, just don't be like this.

[Anonymous No.3199597]

>this

[Anonymous No.3199606]

>>3199597
Sure, if you want your children to grow up to be plebbeards

[Anonymous No.3199650]

>>3199586
He was joking. Settle down.

[Anonymous No.3199655]

>>3199650
I apologise,
I overreacted and I'm sorry.

[Rei !p8eYCadcMo No.3199678]

>>3199596
Please, stop being stupid.

[Anonymous No.3199694]

>>3199597
>>3199606
Super edgy, yall.