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To: Arcadian Empire
The Secret Garden, by F.H. Burnett, also the original movie, with Margaret O'Brien and NEVER any of the remake garbage.

The Railway Children and the Five Children and It ( the first book of a lovely trilogy )and the UK movie of Five Children and It is available in the USA on DVD.

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.

The Grimm's Brother's fairy tales.

Aesop's Fables

The poems of Edward Lear

The Tarzan of The Apes series.

Most of Twain's books.

Treasure Island

Alice in Wonder,land and Through the Looking Glass

The Narnia books

A Wrinkle in Time

Ivanhoe

Knights of the Round Table

Green Mansions

The Blue Lagoon ( and the original movie; NOT the horrid, soft porn remake !

Robin Hood

Jules Vern's books.

Anne of Green Gables `

13 posted on 11/29/2020 5:40:38 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

I appreciate your list. I would recommend for children ages eight to eleven, a limited edition book by Ethelyn M. Parkinson, GOOD OLD ARCHIBALD. It is not a classic but it should be. I read it from the church library when I was a boy and later ordered it as a used book and read it to my children. It was published in 1960 and features American kids growing up as uniquely American kids, playing baseball, taking pride in their dogs, having funerals for small animals, getting into mischief, learning to get along with eccentric adults, and having fun.


18 posted on 11/29/2020 7:09:21 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini. )
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