Peter Pan hands down! Brilliant book; not just for kids
"Bad form."
Peter Pan hands down! Brilliant book; not just for kids
"Bad form."
There are so many. Well ! I guess Alice in Wonderland and Boy by Roald Dahl.
A simply delightful book is Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince And Other Stories
My favourite also. I named my rabbit HazelOriginally Posted by JuniperWoolf
I loved The Hobbit and Peter Pan quite a lot as a kid. Treasure Island was also one of the first books I ever read.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
My dad had a huge amount of old classic hardcover books in his library, and as a kid I would just kind of go through them one by one. I was like 9, I went through Shakespeare "Much Ado About Nothing" and Robin Hood, and I could kind of understand them, but they didn't really do much for me at that age. Then I came upon books that I thoroughly enjoyed.
Jack and Jill - this is an amazing novel about a boy who gets hurt in i believe a sledding accident? He spends months at home reading books. I can't remember the plot all too well, except it was amazing.
Anne of Green Gables - When I read this, at about the age of 10, it had the entire Anne series with it. I found them to be pretty amazing books.
Chronicles of Narnia - More around the age of 11, I read Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe and then later the entire series.
EDIT: and the people who listed Watership Down, that was more like middle school for me, but i LOVE that novel!
I'm losing all those stupid games
That I swore I'd never play
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. Pure magic, even now as a grown-up.
The Moments of Dominion
That happen on the Soul
And leave it with a Discontent
Too exquisite — to tell —
-Emily Dickinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVW8GCnr9-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGIvr6WVw4
Little Women! (all the series)
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
Ivanhoe. Arghh!! I was rooting for Rebecca to get Ivanhoe, not that silly Lady Rowenna.
I didn't read Watership Down until I was an adult. Now I am looking forward to having a grandchild to read it to. Such a charming book.
In teaching myself German, I went through some children's books. I enjoyed Higgelti Piggelti Pop quite a lot.
Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials would be my top pick for my teenage years.
I agree that Where the Wild Things Are is most probably the best picture book.
However for a crash course in philosophy for all ages I would advise everyone to read Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder. It is set out in a way that is accessable to both preteens and adults alike.
btw I resent the way that Video Games were put down in on the first page. Do you speak from experience I wonder. In this feild I do happen to have experience. Video Games are fast becoming one of the best teaching tools for children. They are soon to become usable as texts for essay writing and many have gripping and meaningful storylines. I can think of no better source to learn about the ins and out of friendship than the Kingdom hearts games.
Anyway I have ranted. You only need to read the first part of the post.
Probably Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
but I also love Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
and
The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett.
There's too many to choose from!!
I actually prefer 'Chess Titans' to 'Grand Theft Auto'. I also prefer playing a real living breathing person at chess. People spend far too much time in front of computer monitors as it is, whatever their respective chronological ages, in my opinion.
Computer simulations & the like have been used for training & educational purposes for a long time. I have utilised some in education. There is a difference however in learning something useful & ultimately productive & in blowing away scores of computer generated mutant zombie spiders from Mars. Even if it is more fun. I honestly don't think that video games have a negative effect on most people, particularly the very young, & I do honestly believe that they are unfairly targeted by the right-wing press as being responsible for many of the problems in modern society, but you have to view them in perspective.
I must be a bit old-fashioned then as I learnt about friendship with other human beings.
Last edited by Red-Headed; 12-18-2009 at 02:35 AM.
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I was actually trying to explain the how the statement that the younger generation are taking friendships for granted was a fallacy and that is what I was talking about when I was saying that games exist that teach the ins and outs of friendship.
BTW Not all video games are about blowing stuff up either. Video games these days are can be categorised as interactive movies. However this is not the place to be having this discussion. Fell free to PM if you have any questions about what I was meaning to say.
I think I know what you are trying to say. I'm just not much of a 'gamer' I guess. Chess Titans cheats as well!
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Oh! I almost forgot: The Neverending Story.
'The Neverending Story' is one of my favourite books, too .
As well as 'Momo' (hence my nickname *g*) and the 'Night of Wishes' by Michael Ende.
I also enjoyed everything written by Astrid Lindgren, but my favourites were 'Ronia, the Robber's Daughter', 'Mio, my Son' and 'The Children of Noisy Village'.
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