>>Hi everybody,
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>>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.
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>>From my childhood I remember:
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>>Daniel Defo (?) "Robinson Crusoe" (?)
>>? "Peter Pan"
>>J. Swift (?) "Hulliver's Adventures" (?)
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>That is: Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Adventures". Great satire, but children won't even notice, and just read it for fun.
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>>A. Lindgren books
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>>"Nil's travellers with wild geese', (?)
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>That one is great, too - but perhaps a little big for a seven-year-old child.
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>>etc.
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>>May be you can help me to come up with a list, so it would be easier for me to pick the books...
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>I think all of the following are great, and appropriate for that age:
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A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"
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Laura Ingals Wilder, "Little House in the Big Woods" (and subsequent books from the same series, about 8 or 9 in total)
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Charles Doggson (alias Lewis Carol), "Alice in Wonderland", and "Behind the Looking Glass" (this is the continuation of "Alice", sort of).
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>The following are also great, but I estimate they are a somewhat difficult for that age; keep them in mind for later:
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Samuel Clemens (alias Mark Twain), "Tom Sawyer", "Hucklebery Finn", "The Diary of Adam and Eve", and many more.
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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.
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J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Hobbit", and its continuation, "The Lord of the Rings".
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>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.

Hilmar,

Thanks a lot. The funny thing is that I took Tom Sawyer and "Gulliver's Adventures" for myself in my last trip to the library. Right now I'm reading "Little men" by Louisa M. Alcott and I think I may give this book to my son once I finish. Or do you think I should start from the first book for him "Little women"?

I haven't heard about Laura Ingals Wilder, "Little House in the Big Woods"...

I also read all Harry Potter's books myself. Perhaps you're right and I may give them to him as well now.

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