I started Ronald Dahl's Witches yesterday. I don't read tons of this younger YA and I've never read Dahl before, is this typical for him? one of his best? worst?
Have any parents had good/bad/indifferent experiences with your children reading it?
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msbelle - Jul 07, 2004 10:32:52 am PDT #4698 of 10002
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Polter-Cow - Jul 07, 2004 10:38:52 am PDT #4699 of 10002
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I started Ronald Dahl's Witches yesterday. I don't read tons of this younger YA and I've never read Dahl before, is this typical for him? one of his best? worst?
Mmm, that's a great book. Also a good movie, even if they changed the ending. I'd say it's one of his best. I read a lot of Dahl back in the day.
DavidS - Jul 07, 2004 10:40:22 am PDT #4700 of 10002
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I started Ronald Dahl's Witches yesterday. I don't read tons of this younger YA and I've never read Dahl before, is this typical for him? one of his best? worst?
Have any parents had good/bad/indifferent experiences with your children reading it?
It's a very good Roald Dahl, though not among his select best (my opinion). I'd rate books like Matilda, Danny The Champion of the World and The BFG ahead of it. Emmett and I read many Dahl books this year, and it was a great experience for him. Aside from Captain Underpants and Superfudge, those were the first books he read. He loved the anarchic streak in Dahl, and the playful language.
msbelle - Jul 07, 2004 10:50:34 am PDT #4701 of 10002
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I was not aware that it was a movie. I'd think that'd be pretty scary. Maybe I am forgetting what I liked as a child. I am thinking this would be for an early elementary age 6-8, right?
Aims - Jul 07, 2004 10:54:12 am PDT #4702 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Superfudge
Did you read Superfudge first?
Miracleman - Jul 07, 2004 10:54:12 am PDT #4703 of 10002
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Hey, Hec...you and Emmett ever read The Great Brain series?
If not, I recommend it. Emmett is so like the title character.
P.M. Marc - Jul 07, 2004 10:59:21 am PDT #4704 of 10002
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Hey, Hec...you and Emmett ever read The Great Brain series?
Dude, I was just trying to remember the name of that series in the shower on Monday.
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Also, trying to remember where mine were stored so I could re-read 'em.
Miracleman - Jul 07, 2004 11:00:59 am PDT #4705 of 10002
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Also, trying to remember where mine were stored so I could re-read 'em.
I have to buy them, meself. Read them in school lo these many moons ago, but they've stuck in my head e'er since.
Polter-Cow - Jul 07, 2004 11:01:07 am PDT #4706 of 10002
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I was not aware that it was a movie. I'd think that'd be pretty scary.
Starring Anjelica Huston! Also, small role by Rowan Atkinson! I suppose it'd be pretty scary for the young'uns. 6-8 seems a little young, unless they already like this kind of stuff.
JZ - Jul 07, 2004 11:01:39 am PDT #4707 of 10002
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Maybe I am forgetting what I liked as a child. I am thinking this would be for an early elementary age 6-8, right?
I think so. I'd never read it as a kid and found the ending extremely jarring -- but I can also remember reading a lot of terribly bloodthirsty stuff as a child that I really couldn't tolerate now. My sense of Dahl after reading 5 or 6 of his books in one great gollop was that he was consciously writing for a very young and bloodthirsty audience. There was stuff structurally that didn't fully hang together or wrap itself up the way my grown-up brain expected novels to, but it clearly didn't bother Emmett at all.
And now I've made myself curious to go seek out an adult Dahl novel and see how it feels alongside one of his children's novels.
The BFG is such a charming, massively splendiferous book in so many ways, almost as many as the BFG himself.