/lit/ for kids

>>8357607
1984 was probably the first book that I read on my own and actually enjoyed.

let his first experience with literature be finnegan's wake, and let him work backwards until, at 80 years old, he finally gets what dr suess said when he talks about "green eggs and ham"

>>8357614
definitely one i will get him later on down the road. would orefer to get them in order of age appropriateness, so he can read each, if not immediately then within a year or two

dude leave him alone lets his parents raise him

>>8357627
youre gay. like for real

>>8357632
Have your own kid dude

>>8357635
muted

>>8357643
What?

>>8357607
So stupid

A series of unfortunate events is a book series I wish I could recommend. All thirteen books are packed with young readers, inventors, and biters, as well as cheery neighbors, herpatologists, windows, coconut cake, and intrigue. The book does a very good job of applying large words and defining them, making it an excellent tool as a passive vocabulary builder. But sadly all these wonderful things can't make up for the dreadful accounts told within the bindings, including orphans, murderous leeches, unsafe mills, trackfields, overstocked convenience stores, and bad actors. You or anyone you know would be lucky to steer clear of the books and never look back. But if you do manage to will yourself into picking up a copy then fortify your composure and kiss your mother, you'll be diving into one of a series...of unfortunate events.

>>8357623
>'s

>>8357685
Daniel Handler pls go

>>8357685
Dude don't waste your time on this guy. He's trying to brainwash some kid, trying to make him a clone of himself. People like thsi need to have their own children.

>>8357685
L-Lemony, you are here?

Hegel

>>8357607
Shithead

why is OP getting so much abuse?

>>8357829
He's doing a shitty thing. He's trying to take over the role of the parent foursome kid that already has two parents . That's a shitty thing to do

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>>8357835
>That's a shitty thing to do
Why?

Is your uncle not allowed to buy you a book for your birthday? holy shit

>>8357866
OP wants to buy the kid a book EVERYTIME he fucking sees him

Sounds like a creepy uncle to me

Let the parents decide what books the kid reads

Definitely crossing a line if you ask me

>>8357931
Did you grow up with a family wtf man?

>>8357931
chill the fuck out dude
OP probably doesn't see his nephew much

>>8357951
I grew up with a normal family thank you very much. Let the kids parents decide how they want to raise the kid. I just think OP is being a little too presumptuous with how much he's willing to effect this kids development

>>8357955
You don't know that. I'm pretty calm. Just trying to make op listen to reason

>>8357960
just kys mahdude

>>8357829
its all 1 wizard with nothing better to do. doesn't bother me

>>8357974
Why?

>>8357980
Wizard?

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>What was the first book you read on your own?
Not sure, maybe Goodnight, Moon.

>The first one you read over and over?
Pic related.

I read a lot kids' books when I was really young. Animorphs, Goosebumps, The Boxcar Children, Hardy Boys, Louis Sachar's books, a lot of Matt Christopher books (kids' books about different sports), etc. Started reading Great Illustrated Classics when I was probably 8 or so. First one was The Last of the Mohicans, fucking hated it. Next was Oliver Twist, absolutely loved it. Kept reading those, I distinctly remember Moby-Dick, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Count of Monte Cristo, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, David Copperfield. Kind of took a hiatus from reading between about 11 and 14 as I was spending time trying to fit in with the "cool" kids, got back into reading with Lord of the Flies when it was assigned freshman year. After a few more classics like Great Expectations, To Kill a Mockingbird and so on, I branched out from the school curriculum with works like A Clockwork Orange, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Running with Scissors.

>>8357997
Dude please don't contribute to this thread

>>8358004
I really don't give a shit what you think. Considering the works I've now read at this point in my life and what I'm currently reading, I feel comfortable saying my path was a good one.

>>8358065
You're an imbecile forreal just give up

>>8358004
can you even imagine having so little going on in your life that you turn into this guy?

sad, really

>>8358099
What are you talking about man

I was always into literature growing up myself, I taught myself how to read some children's book when I was three or four years old to the surprise of my mother. It actually got to the point where the kindergarten teacher thought I was a troublemaker because I wouldn't pay attention in class and my ma had to drill it into her skull that I already knew the material and was just bored (Florida public school, everyone.)

But I digress. I mean I grew up with the traditional YA novel series like Animorphs, Goosebumps, etc, but that was interspersed with whatever I could find in the school library. This went from like...that Ramona Quimby series to stuff like A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle, Harry Potter, and anything that caught my eye.

One other thing that helped me was when my ma and my stepdad got married and moved in together. He was a bit of a geek so he had a whole closet full of old Edgar Rice Burroughs pulps, the first trilogy in Terry Brook's Shannara series, Saberhagen's Twelve Swords, and a bunch of other stuff. I must have devoured everything in that damn closet.

Guess what I'm saying is, start by appealing to his tastes and then expand from there. Remember, you're competing with fucking Netflix and tablets and all that; if you try to force it or come off as a dorky uncle or something it might put him off.

>>8358121
>wrinkle in time
good one, that'll go on the list

>>8358133
Dude go do something else your wasting your time

>>8358133

Yea man, I could never find the whole series so I ended up re-reading like the first two books at the library every so often. I swear it's where Star Wars got the idea for fucking midichlorians or whatever because of the focus on mitochondria in the second (third?) book causing powers to manifest in people. I really should go back and check them out once I finish reading more challenging fare just for the hell of it.

>>8358145
Shut up

lol this one faggot trying to shitpost and nobody is going along with him. honestly it's making my day

>>8358207
How am I shitposting

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>>8358292
Stop idiot

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>>8358322
Thanks food bumping my thread. I got some good ideas here. Nowe go jerk off into your piss jar you Sperging. Your troll ha been unsuccessful and I retire directly

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>>8358330
Idiot stupid

>1 year old
soft and crinkly books and thick card board books of shapes and things.
get winnie-the-pooh for the parents to read to him so they don't hate you for making them learn shitty stories by heart.

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This one anon! It's beautiful.

Where my munschlords at?

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And this one! Get the squishy kind.

Le petit Nicholas. I enjoyed reading when I was small, but everytime I grew up, I understood more about it. Its like those Disney films filled with innuendos and lines only adults could understand.
I don't know about the translation tho, I read it in French and it was written as if the narrator is 9 yo.

Also, as >>8357997 said, the last of the Mohicans is not for children, I hated it so much that I still can't get myself to read it.

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where did i come from?

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This was the first 'long' novel I read by myself at 6 or 7. I enjoyed it a lot, I was a big rabbit fan.

Sideways Stories from Wayside School was good. They're funny and shit.

>>8359040
I think I "read" that in HS French class, aka stared at my partner's tits while she struggled to understand literally every word

>>8358106
i'm talking about your pea brain

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Reading this book as a child is why I later considered myself a communist throughout middle school.

>>8359053
lewd

Jennie by Paul Gallico was the first novel I ever read by myself.

I was almost completely illiterate in spite of all my teacher's efforts until I was 9 for some reason, but by 12 I was scoring the same as someone leaving high school for reading comprehension.

After Jennie, it was Watership Down.

>>8359120
That is the exact copy I used to have. I'd read it and reread it so many times that it was coming to pieces and I was repairing every other page with tape.