Re: to dvh and job...reading lists

On Jan 8, 6:21 pm, "DVH" <d...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"abelard" <abela...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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http://www.abelard.org/book_reading_lists.php
these reading lists were compiled by asking a group of high iq
   children and a group of average children for their favourites...
   around 1925

i hope to add to this as i have time.....or with useful advice from
    your own experience or other surveys....

Thanks.

My experience isn't that widespread so I can't really suggest additions. But
the ones on your list all look fine. I'm told Black Beauty is the work of
Satan, but that is subjective third party opinion and I can't vouch for it.

Gurls like Black Beauty and blub shamelessly at the sad bits. I had
to sit through the film version and pass the hankies round. Same goes
for Little Women.

Of the others, there's several on both lists I've never heard of, no
doubt because they're American. The Jungle Book, Sherlock Holmes,
Alice in Wonderland, Huckleberry Finn, Kidnapped and Treasure Island
are all-time classics. My two liked The Secret Garden and Anne of
Green Gables, but ISTR Little Lord Fauntleroy raised (unintended)
laughs

Ivanhoe is a bit dull and has anti-semitic elements, and I'd caution
against the 'adult' version of Robinson Crusoe; lots of God-bothering
stuff in there and Defoe goes on a bit. But the basic story is good.
I think David Copperfield is excellent, but it might try the patience
of some younger readers because of Dickens' verbosity.

I posted some suggestions back in December that were favourites with
my children:

1) Enid Blyton.
2) Molesworth.
3) Alan Garner, especially 'The Owl Service'
4) Sherlock Holmes stories
5) E Nesbit, esp The Railway Children
6) Pippi Longstocking

I'd add 'The Catcher in the Rye' by JD Salinger; 'The Ballet Shoes' by
Noel Streatfeild; CS Lewis's Narnia series and the Jennings books by
Anthony Buckeridge. Some like 'Swallows and Amazons' but my two found
it dull, and we never tried the Just William books.
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