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Books for 7 year old kids
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15/09/2006 09:22:40
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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>Hi everybody,
>
>My son, who is 7 years old, started to like reading. Yesterday evening he surprised me a little bit by finishing "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in 2 evenings (about 1h.+ reading).
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>I'd like to come to the library this Sunday with a list of good children's books. I'm not sure what books to take, so they have not very complex language and be interesting for a kid.
>
>From my childhood I remember:
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>Daniel Defo (?) "Robinson Crusoe" (?)
>? "Peter Pan"
>J. Swift (?) "Hulliver's Adventures" (?)

That is: Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Adventures". Great satire, but children won't even notice, and just read it for fun.

>A. Lindgren books
>
>"Nil's travellers with wild geese', (?)

That one is great, too - but perhaps a little big for a seven-year-old child.

>etc.
>
>May be you can help me to come up with a list, so it would be easier for me to pick the books...

I think all of the following are great, and appropriate for that age:
  • A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
  • Laura Ingals Wilder, "Little House in the Big Woods" (and subsequent books from the same series, about 8 or 9 in total)
  • Charles Doggson (alias Lewis Carol), "Alice in Wonderland", and "Behind the Looking Glass" (this is the continuation of "Alice", sort of).

    The following are also great, but I estimate they are a somewhat difficult for that age; keep them in mind for later:
  • Samuel Clemens (alias Mark Twain), "Tom Sawyer", "Hucklebery Finn", "The Diary of Adam and Eve", and many more.
  • J. K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Philosoper's Stone" (or "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", depending on the version), and subsequent books in the series.
  • J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Hobbit", and its continuation, "The Lord of the Rings".

    This may help for a start; also, in my experience, certain religious texts can sometimes be quite fun to read for children, especially historic books, when they mention heroic acts.
    Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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