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Anybody know of any good children's books? Novels, not 20 page books about a cat in a sombrero. By good i mean good enough to be read by a mature adult and not be trash, such as harry potter (an example of trash).
Is pic related one of these, or no?

>> No.6913495

why would an adult read children's novels?

do you play video games too?

>> No.6913496

Yeah that's good (got cheeky pynchon references aswell)

The Usborne Book of Greek and Norse Legends is GOAT fot kids

>> No.6913499

The Edge Chronicles are awesome, much more imaginative, better written and of course darker than Harry Potter.

>> No.6913541

>>6913489
If you're german, Kästner.

>> No.6913548

>>6913489
roald dahl
uh the little prince or so ive heard

>> No.6913599

Dr. Seuss tbh

>> No.6913620

>>6913489
I thought Coraline by Neil Gaiman was an enjoyable read.

>> No.6913662

>>6913495
Beat me to it, nice.

>> No.6913977
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Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 1865
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women 1868
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876 & Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884.
Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island 1883
Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Peter Rabbit 1902
Margery Williams Bianco: The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real 1922
Lucy Maud Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables 1908
Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows 1908
E.B. White: Charlotte’s Web 1952
Tove Jansson: Tales from Moominvalley (Det osynliga barnet och andra berättelser) 1962
...and most other works by those authors.

>> No.6914151

Where the Wild Things Are

>> No.6914200

>>6913489
They're immersive, they're clever, I love them, but they're still children's books. Don't try to pretend they're something more "patrician" than that.

>> No.6914210

The Phantom Tollbooth. Trust me.

>> No.6914218

>>6914210

Phantom Tollbooth is the most /lit/ book, about a depressive rich boy lost in a strange world, accompanied by an ever-ticking clock and beset by shitposts from liberal arts majors and STEM majors about nothing of any consequence.

>> No.6914451

The Bartimaeus Trilogy

The Little Prince

>> No.6914466

>>6914218
>>6914210
>tfw stuck in the doldrums

>> No.6914481

The original Pinocchio is brilliant

>> No.6914501

>>6914481

The movie is bretty gud too, has some of the best-animated water ever drawn and has good morals such as "an open-minded examination of one's own ontic character can only lead to smoking, masturbation, and shooting pool"

>> No.6915193

>This Is All by Aidan Chambers
>03 by Jean-Christophe Valtat
>The Children and The Wolves by Adam Rapp (actually all his YA stuff is pretty bitching)
>A Little Princess by Frances Hodgsen Burnett (so much the isolation and despair)
>Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess
>Stoner & Spaz by Ron Koertge
>The Window by Jeanette Ingold
>Exit Here by Jason Myers
I also recall loving William Sleator when I was a kid. Not sure if I'd still like him though. meh

>>6913620
Stolen from Thief of Always by Clive Barker (very good book)

>> No.6915614

ender series

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Cirque Du Freak will always hold a special place in my heart