Roald Dahl is good for the about-7 demographic.
Never send a minion to do a god's work.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DebetEsse - Dec 10, 2012 4:11:58 pm PST #3855 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
tommyrot - Dec 10, 2012 4:12:58 pm PST #3856 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How about the graphic novel version of A Wrinkle in Time?
Amy - Dec 10, 2012 4:14:09 pm PST #3857 of 30001
Because books.
Oh, or the first Little House book!
zuisa - Dec 10, 2012 4:14:53 pm PST #3858 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
It's really old and probably dated at this point, but The Boxcar Children series was a big favorite of mine at that age.
(The first book was published in 1924! I knew it was old but was unaware it was THAT old)
DavidS - Dec 10, 2012 4:15:44 pm PST #3859 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's really old and probably dated at this point, but The Boxcar Children series was a big favorite of mine at that age.
Did you ever see the famous BBC version starring Jenny Agutter?
zuisa - Dec 10, 2012 4:16:24 pm PST #3860 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Did you ever see the famous BBC version starring Jenny Agutter?
No! I had no idea it was ever filmed.
Jesse - Dec 10, 2012 4:16:32 pm PST #3861 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I re-read The Westing Game recently, and highly recommend it for littles, especially if they are from mystery-reading families. For slightly older kids, I like to recommend The Secret Adversary, the first Agatha Christie book about Tommy and Tuppence, although I haven't re-read it in yonks, so I don't know what kind of now-problematic stuff is in there.
Steph L. - Dec 10, 2012 4:19:18 pm PST #3862 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Skipping to ask what age range is A Wrinkle In Time good for? Is 7 too young?
Hmm, now I want to re-read this. (I've been re-reading all of the adult L'Engle books over the past couple of weeks, but I think I just finished the last one on my shelf. Onward to A Wrinkle in Time, I think.)
DebetEsse - Dec 10, 2012 4:20:09 pm PST #3863 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
How about the graphic novel version of A Wrinkle in Time?
I dislike this plan. Save the real thing for later.
I'm shopping for girls ages 4 and 7 and boys ages 13 and 15. I swear this used to be easier.
My cousin, who is 11, likes the Percy Jackson books, and the sequel series. Also the Merlin series. There was another, but I can't recall. Many and many of the nerdlets on my Tumblr like the Young Wizards series. You could also do the first 3 Hitchhiker's books.
I would be tempted to tell you to get the 15 YO a John Green book and introduce him to the Nerdfighter community.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 10, 2012 4:23:47 pm PST #3864 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I loved The Boxcar Children! I want to live in the boxcar and get dishes from the dump and clean them with sand!