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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The hobbit 
The swan and the trumpet 
The mouse and the motorcycle 
The secret garden 
Charlie and the chocolate factory 
Junie B. Jones 
Little princess [/quote]

Uh what?  The Little Princess is SO DATED and incredibly boring.  Same with the The Secret Garden.  There is SO much excellent children's literature being written now, there's no need to read things written at the turn of the century.[/quote]

LIES! The secret garden is a beautiful and awesome book. [/quote]

I love the secret garden but I did try to read it to my DD around that age and the beginning is so depressing with the neglectful parents and the cholera and everyone dying and her introduction to England. Like it is BLEAK. We set it aside and I'll see if she wants to try again later or read it on her own when she's ready. I know once you get past the first quarter or so, it hooks you. But unlike other children's books about orphans, it doesn't use humor or fantasy or anything to soften it or make it easier. It's just like "this young child's loses her entire family and her wonderful nanny to disease, is forgotten in her home, and then she's sent to live in a moor with an old man with no social skills." There is no spoonful of sugar.[/quote]

Yeah, I love Secret Garden, but I’d say 8-10 (depending on child) is a better age for it.

I posted my recommendations on page 2 (04/05/2023 16:47).  My kids loved these books when they were young, so you might give them a try. [/quote]

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