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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Off the top of my head, mine loved the Harriet the Hamster Princess series, The Borrowers, the Narnia books, The Hobbit, The Wind in the Willows, and The Incredible Journey.   [/quote]

Your kid enjoyed The Hobbit in first grade? What crap. Let your first grader be a first grader.[/quote]

I had a pre-schooler who liked the Hobbit. If you scaffold the kids and get them used to hearing older books with richer vocabularies (and sometimes know when to elide a less interesting conversation, or add in something that matches a narrow interest), the number of books they're able to enjoy expands.  Hence I had a rapt audience for "The Song of Hiawatha, With Slightly More Dinosaurs Than Were In Longfellow's Original".

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I'm the one who said my kid liked the Hobbit.  I should note that I did voices for all the characters, which she loves, and I sang all the songs in the story (badly, but still).  And explained words if she didn't know them.   It's an adventure story about a short person -- not really shocking that a kid would like it, really.  [/quote]

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