FOAK: Books for (bright) 7-yr-old
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From: "Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot" on 20 Jun 2010 15:12 "wessie" <putmynamehere(a)tesco.net> wrote in message news:Xns9D9DCC34DA87wtymmmsas(a)81.169.183.62... > Derek Turner <frderek(a)cesmail.net> wrote in > news:8875r5Fn1uU1(a)mid.individual.net: > >> Someone on here will know. >> >> A friend of mine is in the process of adopting two children, one of >> whom is seven and at the top of his class in reading. He loves to >> read but has come from foster-parents with no books at all. Said >> friend has given him Asterix the Gaul from his own childhood (which he >> loves) but he's getting through them very quickly. What says the FOAK? >> is he too young yet for Harry Potter? Narnia? What suggestions do >> those with 7-9 yr-old boys have? >> >> Being childless I'm at a loss :) >> > > At that age I was given a relatively free hand with a library card. I > read some fiction but I was more interested in non-fiction. I suggest > your friend takes both children to the library frequently as the one > that is less interested in books at the moment may be able to discover > their niche. > Good point. When I stayed with my ol' nan at the weekends when I was wee (gawd knows what my mother was up to) I was much more interested in the factual books than the fiction. Especially books wot explained how things work. Si
From: doetnietcomputeren on 20 Jun 2010 15:13 On 2010-06-20 21:04:22 +0200, wessie <putmynamehere(a)tesco.net> said: > My lad, now 19, was 7 when the 1st Harry Potter book came out and began > reading them straight away. By the time he was 12 he was more interested > in reading about sport but still read HP when a new one came out. Harry Potter is that old already? Blimey... -- Dnc
From: ogden on 20 Jun 2010 15:18 Derek Turner wrote: > Someone on here will know. > > A friend of mine is in the process of adopting two children, one of whom > is seven and at the top of his class in reading. He loves to read but has > come from foster-parents with no books at all. Said friend has given him > Asterix the Gaul from his own childhood (which he loves) but he's getting > through them very quickly. What says the FOAK? Proust. -- ogden | gsxr1000 | rgv250
From: Nige on 20 Jun 2010 15:20 On 20/06/2010 20:18, ogden wrote: > Derek Turner wrote: >> Someone on here will know. >> >> A friend of mine is in the process of adopting two children, one of whom >> is seven and at the top of his class in reading. He loves to read but has >> come from foster-parents with no books at all. Said friend has given him >> Asterix the Gaul from his own childhood (which he loves) but he's getting >> through them very quickly. What says the FOAK? > > Proust. > :)
From: Derek Turner on 20 Jun 2010 15:54
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:48:26 +0100, Andy Bonwick wrote: >> > Any of the Biggles books. They taught me that it's cool to be invincible > and that Germans are the enemy. They also made me think that killing > animals was perfectly acceptable as long as you did it with a clean shot > and that black people are here to serve. Now who's going to clean up this keyboard :) |