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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:12 AM Original message |
Name a good book suitable for children that is NOT Harry Potter |
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ogradda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:15 AM Response to Original message |
1. little house on the prairie series. |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:23 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Yes. I read the "Little House" books long before the TV show. |
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Soopercali (257 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
2. Edward Eager. |
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JanMichael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
3. age and gender of the child? |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:21 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Just in general. |
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Theres-a (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:23 AM Response to Original message |
6. penrod and sam |
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Joe Power (778 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:23 AM Response to Original message |
7. Lots of them |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:26 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Narnia! That series is absolutely brilliant! |
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Theres-a (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:23 AM Response to Original message |
8. ferdinand the bull |
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Theres-a (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:24 AM Response to Original message |
9. the narnia chronicles |
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Theres-a (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:24 AM Response to Original message |
10. isabell's raven |
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Theres-a (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:24 AM Response to Original message |
11. where the wild things are |
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Theres-a (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
12. where the sidewalk ends |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
14. Just curious--why not Harry Potter? |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:30 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Because everyone knows Harry Potter. |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:52 AM Response to Reply #15 |
27. Conversely... |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-04 12:40 PM Response to Reply #27 |
87. I agree: there's nothing that warms my heart like the sight of a kid |
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Brewman_Jax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
16. The Prydain Chronicles |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:32 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. That's a new one to me, I'll have to pick up the first book. |
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Brewman_Jax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:54 AM Response to Reply #18 |
28. The first book's title is... |
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TransitJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:48 AM Response to Reply #16 |
23. Doh! |
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Tyrone Slothrop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 12:02 PM Response to Reply #16 |
45. Wow. I forgot all about those books |
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liontamer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 01:44 PM Response to Reply #16 |
64. these are awesome books |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
17. My kids enjoyed |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:35 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. I've never read one of either series... |
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Maestro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 10:10 AM Response to Reply #17 |
39. I remember devouring those Hardy Boy books |
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kittycat1164 (616 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-04 10:05 AM Response to Reply #39 |
79. I remember reading Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
19. The Phantom Tollbooth |
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MissMillie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 10:44 AM Response to Reply #19 |
44. I LOVE this book! |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-04 10:14 AM Response to Reply #19 |
82. Absolutely!! |
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peacefreak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
21. Beauty --Robin Mckinley |
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TransitJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
22. Lloyd Alexander |
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Billy Ruffian (672 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
24. A Wrinkle in Time |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 09:12 AM Response to Reply #24 |
30. I agree. Best book I ever read. |
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Orangepeel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-04 09:44 AM Response to Reply #24 |
77. that's what I was going to say! |
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Loki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
25. Lemony Snicket |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
26. The Hardy Boys? |
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TyeDye75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
29. Mrs Frisby and the rats of Nimh |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
31. Way of the Peaceful Warrior. |
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SheilaT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
32. Homecoming |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
33. For older kids: Star Beast by Robert Heinlein |
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Texasgal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
34. The lion, the witch and the wardrobe |
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SOteric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
35. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Debbi801 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
36. Beverly Cleary books and Judy Blum books are great, too. |
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noonwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
37. Charley and The Chocolate Factory |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
38. The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
40. Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson (who wrote a lot of other good books) |
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Red State Rebel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
41. Caddie Woodlawn & Anne of Green Gables n/t |
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CornField (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
42. Two great series inside |
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Solitaire (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
43. Nancy Drew! n/t |
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Tyrone Slothrop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
46. The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois |
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hickman1937 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
47. Anything by L.M. Montgomery |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
48. Many great ones already mentioned, but here's a few more. |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
49. The Wind In the Willows |
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ImpeachBush (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
50. The Stinky Cheese Man n/t |
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eoberhauser (132 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
51. Some of my favorites that my dad read to me |
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derbstyron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
52. James and the Giant Peach |
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J-Lo Biafra (418 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
53. "Goosebumps" series |
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RevolutionaryActs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
54. For a girl: Ella Enchanted. For a boy: Holes. And Madeleine L'Engle's, |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 01:26 PM Response to Reply #54 |
62. My daughter read both and especially loved Holes |
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StoneCold513 (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
55. I liked Animorphs when I was younger... |
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Dora (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
56. Newberry Award winners |
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Culture Mind (55 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
57. The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
58. I assume you mean novels? |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
59. Here's one of the main reasons I asked this question: |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 01:18 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. No they haven't. |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 01:24 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. At my school they were. |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 01:38 PM Response to Reply #61 |
63. So the only books on the required reading list are Potter books? |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 01:51 PM Response to Reply #63 |
69. This is bullshit. |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 01:55 PM Response to Reply #69 |
70. I agree. |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 01:49 PM Response to Reply #61 |
66. I do not believe this. I think this is a falsehood. |
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liontamer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 01:48 PM Response to Reply #59 |
65. american kids only seem to read about death |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-04 10:10 AM Response to Reply #59 |
81. I see where you're coming from |
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HEAVYHEART (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
67. How old are the children? |
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liontamer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
68. hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, the jungle books |
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peacefreak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
71. Oh my goodness! |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
72. Tom Sawyer/ Huckelberry Finn |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
73. Can't believe no one has mentioned Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 03:04 PM Response to Reply #73 |
74. Those are great! |
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davsand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-04 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
75. Lots of great stuff out there. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-04 09:42 AM Response to Original message |
76. And don't forget |
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tngledwebb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-04 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
78. Winnie the Pooh, |
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MsAnthropy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-04 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
80. Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner |
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WritersBlock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-04 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
83. "Charlotte's Web" was one of my favorites. |
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Gayla (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-04 10:55 AM Response to Reply #83 |
84. Old Yeller |
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WritersBlock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-04 11:01 AM Response to Reply #84 |
85. Oh yeah.. and "My Friend Flicka" n/t |
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mia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-04 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
86. The Z was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-04 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
88. "Adam of the Road" and "A Door in the Wall" for kids who like |
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