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All those strange permutations of debate based off the Harry Potter books becoming a Lego line. Which leads into... The actual Harry Potter books. My wife bought it for my son (9) to read, but he seems to have stopped. Having some time to kill, I (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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some of my favorites: Bridge to Terabithia - by Katherine Paterson Where the Wild Things Are - by Maurice Sendak The Giving Tree - by Shel Silverstein I also liked the Chronicles of Narnia.. but i haven't read them in ages. Bridge to Terabithia and (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Great subject! My favorite kids books (many I still have from when I was a kid)... Narnia, fist and foremost, especially The Last Battle all the Swallows and Amazons books Many Rudyard Kipling books, esp Puck of Pook's Hill (*still* gives me (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I always enjoyed the AWrinkle In Time trilogy by Madeleine L'Engle. It's sort of Sci-Fi, but without a lot of tech stuff. ~Mark (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The darn thing is I think I read it when I was in 6th grade, but I don't remember anything beyond it involved a tesseract and that it began with the classic Snoopy line: It was a dark and stormy night. Guess I'll just have to read it again. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Bridge (...) very (...) I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to my son a few years ago. It was okay, but that was about it. The Hobbit was much more to my taste. Where the Wild Things Are is a great illustrated book. Loved it. I've (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) favorite (...) The (...) fun (...) Another Narnia fan. Haven't gotten past the first book - but I have the rest sitting on a shelf. Just always seems like there is something else I'd rather read. Bruce (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why is this a "debate" topic? Seems to me personal preference is just that, preference, not a debatable thing. So this thread belongs in .fun. Can we debate that? :-) (...) I would go with the Heinlein juveniles as a group. "Have spacesuit, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well for heaven's sake - why didn't you redirect this to .fun then? Shazam - there we go. (...) A libertarian writer, it figures. :-) I liked his juvenile books better than his "adult" books. Double Star and Citizen of the Galaxy come to mind. (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm pretty sure this is a Newberry or Caldecot winner. (...) To this very day, I cry if I read the giving tree. I always feel silly, and my son (almost six) doesn't get it, but that's OK. I bet he will someday. Chris (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Not now, it's in .fun now...good going Lar! (...) favorite (...) The bulk of this list is reasonable to classify as juvenile literature, but I've also included some non-juvenile at the end that I think is especially good for kids. You (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Christopher L. Weeks writes: Oh, and I forgot _Dune_ by Frank Herbert. Chris (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hehe... I first read "The giving tree" in Hebrew, but I must say it sounds better in English... as do all translations ;-) (...) ...Hmmm... I always thought that TLTW&TW was, if not the worst, at least the least-good one of the bunch. "The (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It won the Newberry award. The Caldecott award is for illustrated books. I have yet to go wrong by reading a Newberry Award or Newberry Honor Award book. (...) my (...) Gosh, I'll have to get it and an industrial grade hanky at the same time, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think you forgot the corpus of Asimov short stories--they made a huge impression upon me as a teen, when the stories were already 25 years old, because the lessons and principles are really timeless. They've collected the stories into (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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