I have recently started reading more books aimed at younger readers for reasons I will explain.
I thought I would start this thread for recommendations and reviews of books aimed at children and young adults.
First, here are three that I have read, with the third one unfinished at the time of writing. I like all of them:
Stick Man - Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler
I have the hard version of this book - as in made out of strong card. We were given this by my sister for my son who is now one, hence the hard version. Although he's obviously too young to read and understand the book, he enjoys looking at the pictures and enjoys me reading it to him and doing the voices. It's a beautiful book and the card is very durable as it needs to be.
Holes - Louis Sachar
This book is aimed at older children or young teens. I started reading it because a ten-year old girl I teach was reading it and said it was a good book. As I teach children of that age, I think it is worth knowing some of the books that they read and also for when my son gets older I would have books to recommend.
This one is about a group of delinquent boys forced to dig holes in the desert in Texas. The reason for being asked to do this is supposedly to build their character although the slowly unfolding backstory reveals another reason. This book reminds me a little of the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It gets deeper as it goes along, like the holes the children have to dig. Ha ha!
The Bunker Diary - Kevin Brooks
This book is quite obviously for much older readers and I read it because there was a slight outcry about the themes and the content of the book which didn't seem to be suitable for children according to the Daily Mail. I also wouldn't give this to young children either. The book is an epistolary novel that reminds me of John Fowles's The Collector and the movie Cube. I haven't finished it yet though.
I thought I would start this thread for recommendations and reviews of books aimed at children and young adults.
First, here are three that I have read, with the third one unfinished at the time of writing. I like all of them:
Stick Man - Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler
I have the hard version of this book - as in made out of strong card. We were given this by my sister for my son who is now one, hence the hard version. Although he's obviously too young to read and understand the book, he enjoys looking at the pictures and enjoys me reading it to him and doing the voices. It's a beautiful book and the card is very durable as it needs to be.
Holes - Louis Sachar
This book is aimed at older children or young teens. I started reading it because a ten-year old girl I teach was reading it and said it was a good book. As I teach children of that age, I think it is worth knowing some of the books that they read and also for when my son gets older I would have books to recommend.
This one is about a group of delinquent boys forced to dig holes in the desert in Texas. The reason for being asked to do this is supposedly to build their character although the slowly unfolding backstory reveals another reason. This book reminds me a little of the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It gets deeper as it goes along, like the holes the children have to dig. Ha ha!
The Bunker Diary - Kevin Brooks
This book is quite obviously for much older readers and I read it because there was a slight outcry about the themes and the content of the book which didn't seem to be suitable for children according to the Daily Mail. I also wouldn't give this to young children either. The book is an epistolary novel that reminds me of John Fowles's The Collector and the movie Cube. I haven't finished it yet though.
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