I am really big into classic, especially first half of 20th century, fiction for very young readers with advanced reading levels. Anything written '40s and before has a really high lexile (i.e. complex vocabulary) but generally 6 year old friendly plots. (You do need to do some previewing for racism - Peter Pan is a no, for example.) I suggest Eleanor Estes, The Hobbit, Swallows and Amazons and sequels, Farmer Boy, Mr. Popper's Penguins, The Twenty-One Balloons, and for modern Natalie Babbitt (The Search for Delicious), the Penderwicks series. All of these we've read aloud, starting when Dillo's attention span got long enough at early 5.
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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
flea - May 31, 2013 3:26:39 pm PDT #20874 of 28370
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le nubian - May 31, 2013 3:47:33 pm PDT #20875 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Twain: celebrated frog would probably work.
Jessica - May 31, 2013 6:53:37 pm PDT #20876 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Twain: celebrated frog
Oh, that's a good one!
Connie Neil - May 31, 2013 7:45:04 pm PDT #20877 of 28370
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Eleanor Estes! The Moffats!
And Elizabeth Enright! Gone-Away Lake, Return to Gone-Away, the Melendy stories: The Saturdays, Four Story Mistake, etc.
Enright might be a tad old for a 3rd grade reader, though.
DavidS - May 31, 2013 8:03:22 pm PDT #20878 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And Elizabeth Enright! Gone-Away Lake, Return to Gone-Away, the Melendy stories: The Saturdays, Four Story Mistake, etc.
Good choices! I read them all.
Polter-Cow - May 31, 2013 8:06:51 pm PDT #20879 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What about Edward Eager? Half-Magic, Seven-Day Magic, Knight's Castle, and so on.
DavidS - May 31, 2013 8:09:32 pm PDT #20880 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What about Edward Eager? Half-Magic, Seven-Day Magic, Knight's Castle, and so on.
I love those also!
At a certain point in my childhood I realized I could happily graze in the "E"s and read Estes, Enright and Eager.
Polter-Cow - May 31, 2013 8:48:50 pm PDT #20881 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't know Estes or Enright, but Edward Eager was my jam. Him and E. Nesbit. Also E.W. Hildick. And Allan W. Eckert. So I also liked E's, it seems.
Connie Neil - May 31, 2013 8:56:36 pm PDT #20882 of 28370
brillig
I should track down the Enright stuff and see if it bears up. My middle school library had a big 3-volume omnibus of the Melendy books, and I regularly checked it out. That and teh volumes of the encyclopedia, thick enough to keep me occupied for more than a day or two.
meara - May 31, 2013 9:20:01 pm PDT #20883 of 28370
What about Edward Eager? Half-Magic, Seven-Day Magic, Knight's Castle, and so on.
oooh, definitely! I loved the Melendy books, but I think they're too old for that age.