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>> | No. 5761
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Evening, |
>> | No. 5762
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The Bartimaeus Trilogy will be beyond him at the minute but one day he'll fucking love it. Same (perhaps) for Pratchett's Diggers, Truckers and Wings. |
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>>5761 |
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200px-SalamandastronUK[1].gif >>5761 |
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>>5761 |
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7190-M.jpg Harry Potter is good, and you'll likely find yourself getting interested in the story after the second or third book. I might hold off on hitting the end of the series until your child is older, but by the time you've gotten through to Goblet Of Fire they should be able to cope. |
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ThePhantomTollbooth.jpg Is he too old for The Phantom Tollbooth? The answer to that is probably no. If he liked The Hobbit you might try Phantastes by George MacDonald. It's preferable to C.S. Lewis, at least. Some things by H.G. Wells are on a similar level to The Hobbit, as is The Tripod Trilogy and even the HHGTTG, if you don't mind him hearing about drinking. Stig of The Dump? Swallows and Amazons? |
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>>5764 |
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Picture-7-300x284.png The Phantom Tollbooth remains one of my favourite ever books. |
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>>5763 |
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295181.jpg This series is also worth a crack. It might be a bit confusing and high-brow for a 7 year old (it's basically a fantasy re-imagining of 1984) but it's quite absorbing. Mudnuts! |
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>>5762 |
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There was a book I read as a child about a few dogs stranded on an island having come off a fishing boat. I can't for the life of me find what it is. |
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>>5772 |
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Read him the nightly ramblings of .gs of course! |
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HowIEscaped.jpg |
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Excuse my ignorance but is seven not old enough to begin solo reading? I know I was devouring Horrible Histories at that age, though I was perhaps advanced. |
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HTTYD.jpg >>5761 |
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OP here, I've picked up Artemis Fowl today so I'll let you know what |
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing et al. are good to read to kids because putting on a small child's voice when reading Fudge's dialogue is fun. |
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>>5937 |
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War Horse - Michael Morpurgo |
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Please, let him work through the Goosebumps when he gets slightly older. |
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>>5761 |
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>>5761 Try the edge chronicles, rarely see them mentioned but they have pirates alchemy, airships, goblins, an odd world on the edge of the world, definitely worth reading if he's into action and some fairly magestic fantasy stories it's worth reading, also inkspell, inkheart. and the boy in striped pyjamas (although the modification to fuhrer and Auschwitz piss me off a bit) |
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>>5989 also the adrien mole books are fairly fun, not sure how well they translate for the modern generation but great books anyway... |
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SpecialAttraction56.jpg I'd forgotten how sinister the Thomas the Tank Engine series was until I read Bulstrode to my daughter last night. Bulstrode was complaining at the docks while waiting go get loaded up and when Percy finally arrives the trucks are cheeky little shits whom end up falling off the docks into Bulstrode. They decide to make an example of Bulstrode by leaving him stranded on a beach to get covered in bird shit. |
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>>5990 |
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51MDTWAW3ML.jpg >>6185 |
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2z5YAn920KtoVAvyF1rcKIzGQzj.jpg The crashes are fairly tame, apart from perhaps the train drivers having mental breakdowns due to having to work with engines that have minds of their own and not infrequently come off the rails. |
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>>6190 |
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>Not reading your children British Empire history |
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OP here, we're working our way through Narnia. I'd forgotten how much casual sexism is in them. |
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Well done, OP. You've read your kid the Narnia novels, and thus brought a wee little ARE SI into the world. |
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Most of the way through The Last Battle, although I'm only getting half the story as he'll read a chapter or two to himself after I've read to him. In the last chapter I read the dwarfs started calling the Calormenes darkies. |
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OP here again, lads. |
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Thanks, lads. |
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>>5761 can fully recommend |
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Since this is up top again, I'm going to repeat my support for the Bartimaeus trilogy (>>5762) because they were so much fun when I was young, its about a young twatty kid in a pseudo-alternative reality where the British empire is still on the go, and a certain class of people (aristocracy types) can summon different levels of imps, genies, etc. It's about this kid who gives it a shot at a young age and his adventures with this sassy Djinn called Bartimaeus and how they end up getting involved in higher level politics (that makes it sound dull but it's really not). |
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IMG_20170922_165115393_HDR.jpg >>6642>>6648 |
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Wiki-background.jpg >>5761 |
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Going off on the horns of a furious tangent... |
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Bdc6ed348f60262a2bb15fd34ea.jpg OP here again. |
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Success, lads. He's asked if I'll buy him more Terry Pratchett books. |
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DbkbFBhUQAAd0j0.jpg Disney have announced they are releasing an Artemis Fowl film next year, based on the first two books. |
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Nonso_Anozie_at_the_Pan_Premiere_(cropped) (1).jpg >>6757 |
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dave-bautista-interview-1097793-TwoByOne.jpg >>6769 |
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MV5BOWRmZGEzNjktYjc0YS00ZjlmLWI3MmMtYWJiMTViMmIwYm.jpg >>6769 |
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OP here again. I've slacked a bit on the Pratchett front, he's mainly been reading Horrible Histories and other history books recently, but I picked up The Bromeliad for 50p today so he's having a read of that at the minute. |
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Yesterday was Laddo's birthday. Christmas tradition is that the kids wake up and there's a stocking at the end of their beds full of little presents and sweets. I went upstairs at almost 1am to place the stockings and the little bugger's got his bedroom light on; he was still up reading. He'd got the Alex Rider books as a present and was already well into the second book. Then his youngest sister came into our bedroom about an hour and a half later to let us know she needed a wee, before spending at least an hour regularly telling us she was listening out for jingling bells. Nothing like Christmas Day on a lack of sleep. |
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p01lc1y3.jpg >>6871 |
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His sister's borrowed a couple of books by David Baddiel from the library. Fucking hell, what an absolute crock of shite they are. |
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I'm starting to get self-conscious from this thread. Your lad has probably now read more books in the last five years than I have in my life. Including during my undergraduate. |
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Success, lads. He's just finished The Colour of Magic and has started cracking on with The Light Fantastic. |
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World Book Day: Parents spend more on outfits than they do on novels |
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https://fairytale.ink/book/grimms-fairy-tales |
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A quarter of parents are using digital assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri to read bedtime stories to their children, a survey suggests. Two thirds said that they gave their children time on smartphones, tablets or television before they went sleep instead of a bedtime story |
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Capture.png Are there any decent British comics these days? I'm going to trial The Phoenix for my daughter, but I can't think of any others. The Beano seems to have gone to shit and almost everything else is magazines for about a fiver with a load of tat attached to it. |
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MV5BN2RjNWQzNTQtMmY4Yi00Yzk5LWFiODItY2EyZjBmNjZmYm.jpg >>6667 |
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Laddo's apparently ran out of books to read so I've given him The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'm guessing he's into it because he didn't want to turn his light off when I went through a few minutes ago. I only really need to tide him over for a week or so until his birthday/Christmas but I'm unsure what to suggest to him next; I might try Orwell on him again. |
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Did anyone actually watch all of His Dark Materials? It's been a couple of months and I'm still struggling to find the motivation to get around to the second episode. |
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Laddo didn't wake up until about 3:15 this afternoon. Bought him a few Garth Nix books to keep him going and evidently he decided to read a couple of them last night/into the early hours of the morning. |
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He's not reading as much as he used to but he's just finished the Mistborn trilogy, which he's rated 7/10. |
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Quick festive laddo update. |
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I was looking at a children's books selection earlier and what caught my eye was that pretty much all of the authors being heavily promoted were celebrities. |
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fart.jpg >>7417 |
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I was looking at cinema listings, as I'm considering going to see Violent Night, when I noticed this: |
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740full.jpg >>7452 |
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WBD23_Homepage_carousel_2023_1_books_line-up_mobil.jpg >>7417 |
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>Augustus Gloop is no longer fat, Mrs Twit is no longer fearfully ugly, and the Oompa-Loompas have gone gender-neutral in new editions of Roald Dahl’s beloved stories. |
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The copy of Enid Blyton's Three Golliwogs I bought on spec has gone from about £10 when I got it in 2012 to £77 now. Not a bad ROI but nothing compared to Inside UFO 54-40 which I picked up for a penny in 2014. |
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How about the fact that Rohl dahl having Willy Wonka |
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I went to my favourite curry house the other day, The Giant Peach. Their speciality is the |
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bigfunwords.png https://twitter.com/john_self/status/1627654462599753731 |
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Urad Dahl.png.png.png.png >>7500 |
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They've decided to go ahead without the changes after all. Funny that. |
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I still don't understand what exactly would have been offensive enough that it needed changing in a Raoul Daal book anyway. |
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Well it's spreading: |
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/27/rediscovered-terry-pratchett-stories-to-be-published |
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>Agatha Christie novels have been rewritten for modern sensitivities, The Telegraph can reveal. Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have had original passages reworked or removed in new editions published by HarperCollins. |
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Rto1UiePPxEuxbKAdu-6xsozixrU0vulwJr4U68tlzI~2.jpg >>7587 |
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Supreme Patriarch.png >>7587 |
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s640.jpg >>7590 |
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Jeeves and Wooster stories censored to avoid offending modern readers |
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Sensitivity warnings are being added to the earlier Discworld audiobooks. |
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Discworld was written in a time when people still knew how to take a joke. |
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Come in late to the thread and trying to catch up... |
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1706561058497990.jpg Jesus Christ lads it's been 10 years just make a new thread already |
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read the weirdstone of brisingamen. Good book from the Peak District. |
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Updated-Hero-carousel-mobile-size-4.png For this year's World Book Day you can get a book about sossage rolls by LadBaby. |
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