I'm trying to create a nice library with classic children's books for my daughter, like Heide, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, A Dog of Flanders, When Marnie was There, The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, as to prepare her to the real ones when she comes of age like Dostoyevsky, Proust, Balzac, Tolstoy and to cultivate a reading habit since an early age. I know Anne is considered a classic, but how does it hold up to the other ones on the list? I'm avoiding modern shit like Hunger Games and Harry Potter and other works deprived of morality, ethics and in which sole purpose is to "entertain" with some fantastical bullshit stories.
Might as well ask, what other books do you think could complement the list so far?
hunger games and harry potter have no more or less moral and ethical statements than anne of green gables. I think what you mean by "deprived of morality and ethics" is "has moral and ethical views that reinforce my opinions".
Harry Potter is Unironically not a bad childrens book, at least till the 4th book or so. Rowling starts taking herself seriously after that.
Just let her read books that create a love for literature and reading. At a young age, she is most probably going to be interested in exciting plots.
>le children and adults lit dicotomy
Your daughter will grow up to be a pleb.
I'm not interested in debating a faggot about how shit Harry Potter and Hunger Games are in comparison to other children's classics and how they lack in regards to moral teachings. Those are books meant to entertain the masses with some stupid stories (and sometimes even with a political agenda behind).
Actually, that wasn't even the point of the thread.
>>9706295
If you don't let her read Harry Potter you're setting her up to get bullied
>>9706295
Just give her some Pynchon
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>>9706375
What in the actual fuck? Was this board ever filled with so many Harry Potter shills?
>>9706295
just get her an ipad with a youtube app and let it do the parenting for you
what could go wrong?
>>9706458
I already reluctant in letting her watch those modern animations. The only ones I'm allowing so far are Ghibli movies and some Pixar films.
>>9706462
Technology habits should be cultivated at an early age. Teach her some coding, it will make her life a lot easier if she wants to be an author.
>>9706469
I see, but how exactly are those two things related?
Alice is pretty much all you need
>>9706462
There is literally nothing wrong with an ipad youtube kids app.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=frozen+pregnant
>>9706483
>https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=frozen+pregnant
Oh shit, what the fuck? Those videos sure have a lot of views, it's quite sad to see how parents "educate" their children these days.
>>9706485
What's going on in that image?
>>9706501
A father and a son losing all human contact.
>>9706501
21st century """""""""parenting""""""""""
>>9706507
I thought the kid was watching some forbidden content.
>>9706515
Nah, i think that's a core concept kind of pic
>>9706528
I never had a father, so I never received a formal education, I was a complete degenerate, I remember starting to watch porn when I was 10 years old, I also did some pretty stupid shit around that age like grabbing my mother's tits in front of my friends for laughs. I feel sorry for that kid.
>>9706295
Roald Dahl is a personal childhood favorite, he is one of the reasons for my love of reading.
Tales of adventure and fantasy, so she can use her childish imagination. Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's travels, etc. But that depends on how old she is. How old is she?
>>9706612
10 years old. I think she's prepared to read those.
Thanks for the recommendations.
Not even memeing. Get her started into the Greeks by reading her Greek Myths and Plays. Including Homer. Go for a children's version.
>>9706644
Oh, that's a nice idea actually. Thanks.
>>9706295
The Swiss Family Robinson, Mark Twain, Jules Verne
Also I think you should let her read some modern stuff it may be trash but it's fun and she'd have something to talk with her friends about.
>>9706295
Anne of Green Gables and Anne of the Island are pretty good. Avonlea is a snore, and the rest of the series is okay.
The other books you listed are really good choices, particularly Heidi, Marnie, and Flanders. Anne doesn't really compare to them, but its pretty enjoyable.
Other books I'd suggest are Ende's The Neverending Story and Momo, Gaarder's Sophie's World, and George MacDonald's Lilith and The Princess and the Goblin (particularly if she likes Narnia).
>>9706295
Just read my five year old son Collodi's Pinocchio. He couldn't get enough of it. The talking cricket, however, is immediately killed by P with a hammer, and pursues him as a kind of fury, or ghost. Also the original blue-haired fairy is actually the spirit of a dead girl. The original's meaner than the Disney, but also concludes with the sense of having been dreamt by the real boy P.
>>9706458
>>9708349
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObzF7WDoh0
>>9708364
>>9708868
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KaiB0Q6ndE
>>9708349
I prefer most recent 3D Anne.
>>9708932
That series is terrible, I watched the first 2 episodes and they shoved a lot of feminism and other shit into this classic story. Then I read some reviews and was surprised to see thst they put even some lesbian shit in there, wtf is wrong with the world these days. I also found Anne's actress to be really annoying, she couldn't capture the Anne of the books correctly.
Stone Fuckin' Fox, dad.
>>9706612
Gullivers Travels is absolutely filthy.
>>9706295
Pollyanna, for one. What's wrong with a positive attitude? Also, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Little House on the Prairie and her other books. Really good stuff about survival in primitive conditions. Much better than the bullshit movie and TV shows.