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Anonymous Wed Dec 2 03:18:50 2015 No.7413264 [Reply] [Original]

What book would you give a child for Christmas, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 03:20:11 2015 No.7413266 iliad

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 03:20:33 2015 No.7413267 File: 113 KB, 421x640, GRcoveralternate.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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Anonymous Wed Dec 2 04:18:27 2015 No.7413348

Kevin Costner's new graphic novel The Explorers Guild is really good for like a 12-15 year old boy. Boy specifically, it's like an introduction to the idea of the masculine idealized adventure of the 19th and 20th century. Really strongly recommend it. It has gently handled and introduced philosophical elements, an engaging thought provoking and real-world applicable story(i.e. not like harry potter - kids will learn valuable lessons from this book).

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 04:21:32 2015 No.7413350 >>7413348 Hello Kevin!

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 04:21:42 2015 No.7413352 120 Days of Sodom

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 04:21:55 2015 No.7413353 >>7413264 Winnie the Pooh or A A Milne books Tintin or Asterix Roald Dahl

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>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 04:25:50 2015 No.7413358 File: 138 KB, 329x475, iliad.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's basically a non-shit Harry Potter.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 04:30:53 2015 No.7413366 File: 18 KB, 267x400, 6514.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 04:44:17 2015 No.7413385 Industrial Society and its Future

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 04:45:23 2015 No.7413388 File: 43 KB, 334x499, 51kJkxo4DpL._SX332_BO1,204,203,200_[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A healthy dose of Cultural Marxism

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 04:47:06 2015 No.7413393 Finnegans Wake

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 07:07:23 2015 No.7413546 File: 36 KB, 650x433, 2015-The-Giver-production.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] its problably wide known in usa or england ,but no so much in hispanic circles. And i like that a children books tells you to distrust adults.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 08:07:53 2015 No.7413595 for a female child? Lolita.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 09:53:34 2015 No.7413750 >>7413264 I offer OP's pic to every child I have to buy a gift to.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 10:10:41 2015 No.7413780 "Why your shit's dumb and retarded" Anonymous (it's actually a speech)

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 10:13:19 2015 No.7413787 >>7413264 The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 10:44:33 2015 No.7413879 Aesop Fables

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 10:47:09 2015 No.7413883 D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 10:47:19 2015 No.7413884 File: 76 KB, 408x391, Dinotopia_LAFT_cover[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7413264 Pyramid Castle Ender's Game if pre-teen >>7413358 Black Ships Before Troy is a great childs adaptation

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 10:48:21 2015 No.7413888 >>7413883 This, and any of the rest of D'Aulaires books. The Norse one is great, as is their biography of abraham lincoln (excepting the fact that they cut out his assassination)

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 10:57:21 2015 No.7413925 >>7413888 Things get a little cleaned up for kids, but seriously, those books have given me a solid grounding in classical myth that has followed me most of my life.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 12:08:35 2015 No.7414106 >>7413879 this or La Fontaine's fables or a kids adaptation of some classics/Greek mythology

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 13:34:12 2015 No.7414386 Dumas, R. L. Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle or Tolkien are typical recommendations. I'd also add Voltaire or Chesterton.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 13:42:29 2015 No.7414409 >>7413264 I've never read this. Is it good for an adult to read? For what it's worth, I really enjoyed Winnie the Pooh when I read it at the age of twenty (I'm twenty-six now).

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 13:53:00 2015 No.7414446 File: 141 KB, 410x635, It-IS-About-Islam-Exposing-the-Truth-About-ISIS-Al-Qaeda-Iran-and-the-Caliphate-The-Control-Series-by-Glenn-Beck[1].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 13:59:10 2015 No.7414470 Who comes to 4chan to ask about what to give to a child

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 14:07:42 2015 No.7414499 File: 68 KB, 291x425, ThiefOfAlways.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 14:21:22 2015 No.7414543 ERB's Barsoom, Pellucidar and Caspak series.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 14:22:36 2015 No.7414551 >>7413264 How old a child are we talking about?

Anonymous Wed Dec 2 15:20:21 2015 No.7414702

>>7414409
It's the first book I ever read, I learned many things from it that many years later I still take to heart. I highly recommend it. It's a pretty easy read too, comparable to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, but The Little Prince is filled with fantasy instead.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 15:23:09 2015 No.7414710 >>7414551 34 years

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 15:23:23 2015 No.7414712 >>7414551 He is 10. Up until now he read typical kids books like David Walliams and diary of a wimpy kid. I want to introduce him to slightly more mature books without scaring him off, he really likes to read.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 15:28:22 2015 No.7414736 >>7414409 It's worth it. Definitely. Although I have to admit I enjoyed it a lot more as an adult than as a child.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 15:48:59 2015 No.7414788 >>7414702 >>7414736 Thanks. Might pick it up tomorrow.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 15:53:32 2015 No.7414798 >>7413388 >quentin blake is still alive

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 15:53:37 2015 No.7414799 >>7414776 /thread

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 16:29:48 2015 No.7414899 Lolita/Lolito

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 16:38:15 2015 No.7414928 wind in the willows a wrinkle in time the hobbit

>>	Piracy !!1zjmpE5cmno Wed Dec 2 16:43:57 2015 No.7414950 Alice In Wonderland of course Or Rumpelstiltskin

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 16:56:45 2015 No.7414987 Mein Kampf

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 17:07:47 2015 No.7415017 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 21:01:28 2015 No.7415640 >>7413264 'Animal Farm' so they know at an early age their government wants to fuck them over.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 21:03:05 2015 No.7415645 >>7413264 The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner Favorite of children all over the internet.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 2 21:28:30 2015 No.7415741 how old what gender

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 00:11:41 2015 No.7416201 >>7413264 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its sequel.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 00:17:47 2015 No.7416210 >>7415741 10 xe hasn't made any decisions on xir gender yet

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 00:22:11 2015 No.7416218 >>7414712 I read the Hobbit when I was 10

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 00:24:03 2015 No.7416224 >>7416210 This is what we've come to.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 00:27:13 2015 No.7416233 The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper A Wrinkle in Time Classics all three.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 00:33:49 2015 No.7416243 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie's_World

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 00:37:54 2015 No.7416253 File: 354 KB, 988x1500, this senpai.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7413264

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 00:47:31 2015 No.7416279 Where the Red Fern Grows. Great book for children all around tbqhwy

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 01:09:55 2015 No.7416319 A diary, to be h

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 01:21:53 2015 No.7416337 >>7414499 That's a good pick. I loved it as a kid.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 01:24:29 2015 No.7416341 >>7414950 mein negro

Anonymous Thu Dec 3 10:25:40 2015 No.7417107
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>>7413264
This motherfucker.

I don't care if it's 700+ pages, it has illustrations and is basically German surrealism written by a man who used to draw cartoons of a young Adolf Hitler.

It's funny, wild and likely drug fuelled - a great read for weird little shits. Just read the plot synopsis if you don't believe me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 10:32:23 2015 No.7417120 >>7417107 Good choice, it's really a great series of books It gets more mature and more "meta" with each book, vastly underrated

Anonymous Thu Dec 3 10:36:36 2015 No.7417132

>>7413264
The Little Prince is the best
also
Alice in Wonderland
Holes
The Hobbit
Because of Winn-Dixie
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Those are my favorite children books
The kid is gonna hate you anyway for giving him a book for christmas

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 12:30:53 2015 No.7417410 File: 39 KB, 328x500, The_God_Delusion_UK.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Probably this. As a child they need to learn not to believe in fairy tales.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 12:40:54 2015 No.7417437 >>7417107 best childhood book

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 12:48:04 2015 No.7417459 Phantom Tollbooth

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 12:49:37 2015 No.7417464 >>7417459 Came here to say this

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 13:08:03 2015 No.7417513 File: 431 KB, 1029x617, Little Prince.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7413264

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 13:23:14 2015 No.7417559 >>7417410 "Children should be exposed to the harsh realities of life as early as possible" guess the source

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 13:26:42 2015 No.7417570 File: 77 KB, 362x475, DDailyIllustr[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7413264

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 13:29:01 2015 No.7417578 File: 34 KB, 290x475, 6a00d8341bf68b53ef01156fb84ecc970c-800wi[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Bonus points for early redpilling on the Jew.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 13:48:42 2015 No.7417636 >>7417132 He loves reading. I was thinking of buying him Farcry as well, he sort of asked for it. I just don't want him to grow up and suddenly not know what books to pick up like it happened to me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 3 13:58:44 2015 No.7417661 File: 27 KB, 260x391, 9780316223331_p0_v2_s260x420.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Where else is he to start?

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