FOAK: Books for (bright) 7-yr-old
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From: Simon Wilson on 21 Jun 2010 06:40 On 20/06/2010 19:43, 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? 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 :) > Haven't seen Artemis Fowl mentioned, ours liked those. -- /Simon
From: ogden on 21 Jun 2010 07:02 Champ wrote: > On 21 Jun 2010 05:32:19 GMT, "sweller" <sweller(a)mztech.fsnet.co.uk> > wrote: > > >Ben wrote: > > > >> Famous Five > >> Swallows & Amazons > >> Secret Seven > >> etc > > >I recall absolutely loathing all of them. > > Really? I loved them. I never got into Secret Seven but I read all of Famous Five and even had a load of those choose-your-own-adventure adaptations. Never read Swallows & Amazons. I know I'm a bit younger than most of you lot but really, anyone would think no decent books for children been written since 1960. The suggestion about going to the library is spot on. My local library had a reading challenge thing when I was a kid, a big treasure map on the wall with a path leading from the start and a flag for each kid taking part. Each book you read took you one step closer to the treasure. Completely meaningless but gave extra motivation for reading voraciously. -- ogden | gsxr1000 | rgv250
From: TOG on 21 Jun 2010 07:31 On 21 June, 11:03, Colin Irvine <l...(a)bottom.of.home.page> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:39:26 -0700 (PDT), TOG(a)Toil squeezed out the > following: > > >On 21 June, 10:27, Colin Irvine <l...(a)bottom.of.home.page> wrote: > > >> >But isn't that sort of the point of reading - to venture into other > >> >worlds? > > >> Indeed. My favourite books as a boy were by GA Henty. And even I'm not > >> that old. > > ><fx: raises quizzical eyebrow> > > >And you graduated to Sapper? > > No, although I'm not sure why. The Hentys I'd inherited from my > father. The books I got hold of myself tended to be by the likes of > Nevil Shute, WE Johns and Hammond Innes - and Richmal Crompton of > course. > Wot, no Anthony Buckeridge? He only died recently - last year, I think.
From: darsy on 21 Jun 2010 07:45 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 :) anything by Robert Heinlein. Well, it worked for me. -- d.
From: darsy on 21 Jun 2010 07:52
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:18:33 +0100, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> 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. he'd probably just rather have the bun. -- d. |