What were /lit/'s favorite book as a child?What would you recommend to a developing reader?
For me? It was Goosebumps and Animorphs.
Chronicles of Narnia and Wizard of Oz books.
The Founding of the United States Experience 1763 - 1815
Peter Raven Under Fire
>>24882882Animorphs was the shit.
>>24882880Goosebumps were fun. I read an abridged version of moby dick in middle school and liked it a lot. I realised only ib my mid 20s that it was intended for children or young adults at best, I was legitimately convinced I had read moby dick and posted on this board as if that was the case
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>Kids novels for boys>Great adventures across land, the seas, time, and space>Kids novels for girls>WMAF fantasies
>>24882880Beowulf. My parents had this abridged and illustrated edition that I read several times over as a kid. I'd highly recommend it.
>>24882994Only decent answer so far itt. Everyone else should leave this board
>>24882880For me it was Tex by SE Hinton. I don't know why I loved it so much.
>>24882994I read an abridged children's edition of The Odyssey when I was a kid in the 2000's.I don't remember the edition at all other then it had full-color illustrations. It was cool.
>>24882880For me it's Treasure Island, which I got into because I really loved the movie Treasure Planet.
I remember these two books about Ancient Greece and Rome that I was obsessed with when I was a kid. They were just called "Greece" and "Rome".I remember they had full color illustrations of the insides of Roman villas and the Colosseum. Also what a typical Roman town would look like.
>>24883083Those Ology books were amazing.
Literally just any book about dinosaurs basically.
Seneca
>>24883083i had forgotten about this. i was obsessed with ancient egypt as a kid. was this thing even any good?
>>24882880a choose-your-own-adventure booka pop-up book
>>24882882>>24882904all men read Goosebumps shit was so peaki still remember going to the lending library to get shit about slappy the dummy
>>24883184For me it was every single louis lamour book
>>24882880>>24883083As a zoomer bong, these photos are deeply nostalgic. Those are exactly the books I used to read. Fucking miss my school library.
>>24882880I read picrel twice at about 14.I recall reading some of the other Riftwar books, but once he killed off Macros I lost interest.
>>2488350914 is too old. This is for books ypu liked at 10-12
>>24882880Unfathomably kino
The CHERUB series was a major transitional moment for me growing up, going from about the age of 9-11, they introduced themes of an 'adult' nature in a genuinely engaging and fun way without glorifying the criminal aspects.
>>24883509From the blurb, sounds like a longer maybe somewhat more complex Earthsea. Would you recomend checking it out?>>24883911>This is for books ypu liked at 10-12Got interested in Lord of the Rings when the movies came out, late elementary school so around that age when I read The Hobbit for the first time.
>>24882985>>Kids novels for girls>>WMAF fantasiesExplain The Secret Garden then, anon.
>>24883911>14 is too old. This is for books ypu liked at 10-12In that case picrel>>24883977>Would you recomend checking it out?The early ones are worth a read, but they start to fall off about three books in. The work he did with Janny Wurts with the 'Daughter of Empire' series were better.
>>24882880The Andy Griffiths just series was so funny. You could start with the doodles and cartoons in the margins when you were 5 and then slowly you'd start reading the stories and soon enough you were doing full-on reading. So funny as well man. Andy Griffiths and Roald Dahl were my favourite early primary school authorsThen later primary school was CHERUB and Percy Jackson
>>24883953I used to masturbate to Cherub erotic fan fiction when I was 11
>>24884138the sheriff nigga got books now? and they goofy?
>>24882880I really liked comic books which were quite different back then kek
>>24882880I know there's like a million of them and a slop Disney show now but I really enjoyed the first few Percy Jackson books
I liked stories on CD.
Madeline
>>24882880Percy Jackson. It's like Harry Potter but it introduces a kid to greek mythology. Choose your own adventure was fun too. Roal Dahl is mandatory. If I had a kid I'd also try to experiment and give him the Grimm's Brothers fairy tales
>>24882880Only for the realest of niggas. I also loved books about dinosaurs.
We've already had these threadshttps://warosu.org/lit/thread/24778863https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24422773
Ender’s Game and Redwall were two of my favorites. Redwall held up very well as an adult, going to read Ender’s again soon.
This badboy was my favorite. A hot teacher I had recommended it for the whole class and the only ones who read it were me and some girl.I still read if from time to time.
>>24885516Forgot pic
I read the Great Illustrated Classics “Robinson Crusoe” at maybe 7 or 8 and probably reread it ten or more times. In undergrad I read the real thing and honestly, from a structural standpoint, the choices made by the abridgment were all correct. The ending of the unabridged borders on ridiculous, and there’s a lot of repetitive “Oh I’m doubting if I’ll make it so I’ll pray really hard and yep, I’m reassured now!” which is mercifully cut down to the most important moments.
>>24882880My favorites were the Roman Mysteries series by Caroline Lawrence and the Stone of Light series by the Egyptologist writer Christian Jacq. I tried rereading one of Jacq's novels this summer and it wasn't very good.I think kids should read whatever they are into. If they were into history like me, I would recommend them the stuff I read, also maybe Waltari's historical novels (if they weren't the type that would be bothered by graphic violence and endless betrayal and disillusionment)
>>24883062Tex was a part of the 5 book series she started with The Outsiders.They all share the same continuity.
>>24885534I was into westerns/american adventure so I read every will hobbs, every louis lamour, every gary paulsen that the school library had. The most scarring book I remember reading was called crusader and it was about a girl who was like 15 and hadn't had her period yet. All I remember was the part where she bled all over her bed and cried.
>>24885592I read her other ones too but I didn't like them as much as Tex. My family have a ranch in Kansas on the Oklahoma border and my parents are divorced so I do know why I liked it so much lol. I also had a mini dirt bike.
>>24882880Goosebumps, Animorphs, The Boxcar Children, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, The Bailey School Kids.
captain fucking underpants my nigga
>>24885523I also loved Great Illustrated Classics too. It’s how I first read Dracula and Frankenstein.
I never read as a kid. Only started reading once I turned 20 or so.Maybe being Russian had something to do with it, there were no books in my commieblock apartment
Magic Tree House and Goosebumps
The Saga of Darren Shan. Not sure if I would recommend it, but that was my favorite.
>>24883347No other generation will know how good the books we Zoomers got as a kid were. It might have been the one upside of being born in that era. All the great stuff from the 90s plus everything till maybe 2017ish.
Any good boy love books?
>>24882880I probably shouldn't have been reading this thing.
>>24882880I think the books that left the greatest I liked the most were The Belgariad and the Sparhawk books, I must've read each series 3+ times as a kid. Also some local books that I tore through in the school library. I can't vouch for the literary quality but they made me read a lot and was what pushed me into more serious reading later on.
>>24882880When I was around 8 the scholastic book fair came to our school and our homeroom teacher said we could each pick out one book to take for free. I saw this cover and instantly fell in love. I cried after I finished it and read it many times since then growing up. The book changed my life, made me love reading and I can still recite the final sentence at the end at age 37."The little birds were chirping in their cages and Rontu-aru sat beside me."Tearing up in my beige cubicle right now as I write these memories of childhood innocence.
>>24884140>he didn't just masturbate to the scene in War Dogs where James loses his virginity in the bathtub to the gangster's daughter
Any kids books with rape scenes? I only know about 1 book.
The Willard Price series of adventure books. Whale adventure was my favorite. Moby-dick-liteTwo sons of an American diplomat get into adventures in various parts of the world. Probably viewed as racist and imperialist these days.Whale adventure, arctic adventure, tiger adventure, volcano adventure, south-sea island adventure, African adventure, Lion adventure.......you get the picture.After that i gravitated to discworld
>>24888034my diary desu
>>24882880House of Stairs. Life is full of ironic beauty if you take a moment to notice.
I read Finnegan's Wake when i was like 9, you faggots
