FOAK: Books for (bright) 7-yr-old
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From: The Older Gentleman on 20 Jun 2010 17:13 Derek Turner <frderek(a)cesmail.net> 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? 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 :) > From memory of childhood: Arthur Ransome for escapism Spike Milligan, for silly poetry. Roald Dahl, for everything. Enid Blyton (don't laugh) for a grounding in sentence construction and a very simple prose style that sets the grounding for much more. Narnia stories, yes, absolutely. Ditto Harry Potter. Animal Farm, because I loved it at that age, as did my kids, and even at that age children can sense the essential injustice of the situation. Ronald Welch's historical kids' books, if they're stil in print. (fx: Googles> Good Lord: I never knew that was a pseudonym. <Pause> I shall now look at the other suggestions (haven't done that yet, deliberately) OK, yes, Terry Pratchett's junior stuff. Watership down. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
From: Owen on 20 Jun 2010 17:20 On 20 Jun 2010 18:43:50 GMT, Derek Turner <frderek(a)cesmail.net> 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? 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 :) > >tia > >Derek anything by Lemony Snicket... -- Owen
From: stephen.packer on 20 Jun 2010 17:37 Derek Turner <frderek(a)cesmail.net> 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? is he too young yet for > Harry Potter? Narnia? What suggestions do those with 7-9 yr-old boys have? I read A Tale of Two Cities at that age. Torture them with Dickens.
From: Buzby on 20 Jun 2010 18:05 SIRPip wrote: > Derek Turner wrote: > > > 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? > > I've spoken to Elly, and she suggests: > > All the Harry Potters > > Anything by Roald Dahl > > The Hobbit > > As Catman suggested, the Pratchett kids books: Truckers/Diggers/Wings > and I'd add the Johnny and The Bomb/Only You Can Save The World ones > > Possibly the Lemony Snicket books > > Anything by Michael Morpurgo > > Followed by the Alex Rider books when he's done that lot. > > I think the library ticket job is a great suggestion: that's how I > started and I cleaned them out - but it didn't cost anything, that's > the real biggie when you have a kid who is a voracious reader. +1 -- "There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot"
From: crn on 20 Jun 2010 18:14
Derek Turner <frderek(a)cesmail.net> 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? is he too young yet for > Harry Potter? Narnia? What suggestions do those with 7-9 yr-old boys have? Arthur Ransome. If he's not ready yet he should be soon and they are a cracking good read. -- 03 GS500K2 76 Honda 400/4 project 78 Honda 400/4 in black 06 Sukida SK50QT (Slanty eyed shopping trolley) |