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ITT: Children's books with literary merit.

>> No.3859750
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>>3859734
My French friend recommended I read that book, and her taste is usually spot-on. Maybe I should give it a try. Also, pic related is a great "children's" story

>> No.3859792

>>3859750
Please read it, it's just beautiful.

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>>3859734

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Stuff like the Happy Prince and the Selfish Giant are very similar to the Little Prince. I never read it as a child, but I think knowledge of Oscar Wilde's life made it a bit more poignant.

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This thread interests me. I recently fostered a poor-family child (a girl of 6 years): every month I contribute with a cash value with the NGO that assists the needy community where she lives, and also send letters to her and her family. I always send gifts (books, school material, dolls, movies, etc.), and started giving books about fairy tales, princesses and lullaby-stories (simple books, with a lot of figures).

In the future I intend to start giving her increasingly demanding books (Grimm Tales, the works of Lewis Carroll, books of Conan Doyle, The Hobbit, etc..). I would appreciate ideas from you.

They say that the book in the pic is considered very significant in the context of children's literature. Have any of you read it?

>> No.3860011

>>3860003
Momo is better

>> No.3860064

>>3860011
Holy shit anon, that nostalgia.

>>3860003
Never cared much for the neverending story, but I read it past childhood so maybe it didn't have the same effect on me. My mom loved it though, and used to read it to me aloud when I couldn't read. I think that there are better children's books out there, but it is definetly good. It is also a book about books and stories, so it can teach the love for literature to a child.

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>> No.3861308
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>ITT people who are too stupid to enjoy real books

Do you drive to work in one of these?

>> No.3861309

>>3859734
Gulliver's Travels
Robinson Crusoe
Treasure Island
King Solomon's Mines
stuff by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Jungle Book

>> No.3861320

>>3861309

Gulliver's Travels could scarcely be called a children's book. Have you read it?

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>>3861308
>ITP person who is too stupid to enjoy a book he wasn't told to enjoy

>> No.3861365

>>3861309
>Robinson Crusoe
>Treasure Island
are you fucking daft, cunt? These aren't children's books. They are, however, fairly popular in abridged format, w/ lots of pictures, for children. I'm guessing you, like me, had these abridged books, but were too fucking stupid to know you were reading something abridged.

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>>3861320
Gulliver's Travels could scarcely be called a children's book. Have you read it?

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Goodnight Moon, niggas.

>> No.3861397

>>3861378

Are you saying that my question was affected? I hope not.

There's nothing horribly wrong with recommending a classic book that you haven't read if it's a simple criterion like "children's story, give me adventure and morals." So when I ask, "Have you read it?" I mean it more like this: yes, Lilliput is required reading for many schools, but have you read the whole novel? It doesn't reduce to a children's story: too much history, satire, philosophy; even the language would blast a contemporary teenager in the face. And it's awfully raunchy at times. For example, Swift recommends the reader eat their own shit for medicine.

>> No.3861403

>>3861365
You just reminded me of all the abridged versions of classics my mom read to me when I was little. There was even one for War of the Worlds.

I can seriously never thank my mom enough for the good start she gave me into loving books.

>> No.3861408

>>3861309
Treasure Island has some pretty fucked up happenings. Dudes be gettin' deaded.
There is even a shootout in a log cabin.

>> No.3861417

>>3861308
I understand your sense of humor, Anon, and thanks for the laugh.

>> No.3861423

>>3861399

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpZazF6bL7w

>> No.3861437

>>3861423
I do hold that work dear to my heart as it was read to me frequently as a young one.

>> No.3861455

>>3861423
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpZazF6bL7w
The simpsons are always spot on.

>> No.3861471

>>3861455
>The simpsons are always spot on.
is this some epic new meme?

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Pic related for 9-10 year olds. Some great illustrations too.

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>> No.3861510

>>3861345
>implying that children are "told" to enjoy children's books
They like them because they're full of what appeals to them; simple concepts that require very little cognition to process.

>> No.3861511

>>3861510
My point was rather that someone who can only enjoy "real" books is a babby of literature who will never really enjoy any book, ever

>> No.3861523

Winnie the Pooh all day every day.

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What does /lit/ think about The Giving Tree by Silverstein?

>> No.3861580

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

>> No.3861599

>>3861576
Read it as a kid and thought, oh, that's cute.

Read it many, many years later and nearly wept when I realized how much the tree loved the boy, even though he was a huge dick.