Jesse, as was I. It was the quirks that caught me: Poirot's mustaches and morning chocolat, Ms. Marple being all pink and inexorable. But I really loved the Tommy and Tuppence ones best at that age. Not sure why.
This isn't a come-on. I'm in a very serious relationship with a landscape architect.
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We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
deborah grabien - Dec 08, 2003 3:53:24 pm PST #101 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Kat - Dec 08, 2003 3:53:45 pm PST #102 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Enid Blyton is good for a precocious reader who likes mysteries.
If you want contemporary, I'd strongly recommend Wendelin Van Draanen's Sammy Keyes Mysteries. I think the first one is either Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man or Sammy Keyes and the something Hotel.
Sammy is a total hoot. She is a 7th grader who always finds herself in trouble and at the center of something that needs solving.
bon bon - Dec 08, 2003 3:55:56 pm PST #103 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I remember enjoying 1 minute mysteries around then, if that's what it's called.
And The Westing Game! Good call.
Jesse - Dec 08, 2003 3:56:57 pm PST #104 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But I really loved the Tommy and Tuppence ones best at that age. Not sure why.
Me too! I reread one recently and still loved it, actually. It's because Tuppence is the best -- she's all cute and independent and capable and fun.
Actually, I need kid present book recs, too. My cousin is 6, but a really good reader. He read the first two Harry Potter, but they got too dark for him. Lemony Snicket ditto. My aunt mentioned things like Superfudge, but now I figure everyone else will get him that. I was thinking Phantom Tollbooth, but I wonder if he'll get the jokes?
Kat - Dec 08, 2003 3:57:46 pm PST #105 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
He likes fantasy, Jesse?
Jesse - Dec 08, 2003 3:59:20 pm PST #106 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
As long as they aren't scary, I guess.
Hil R. - Dec 08, 2003 3:59:56 pm PST #107 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Maybe some Roald Dahl, Jesse?
erikaj - Dec 08, 2003 4:00:29 pm PST #108 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Tommy and Tuppence were cool...very happening for 1925 or whenever...and there was a show, on pbs with a Francesca somebody... my one junior high friend and I got a big kick out of them. Yeah, I was softer-side Willow, then.
deborah grabien - Dec 08, 2003 4:01:49 pm PST #109 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
My word, how did I forget Blyton? Thing is, there's the probable need to warn a modern kid about the racism (not to mention the sexism) of the period - I remember liking the books, but thinking Noddy awfully weird in some ways.
Jesse - Dec 08, 2003 4:02:45 pm PST #110 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dahl, good one, Hil. Thanks.