[Unrepentant VN Vet]

Re "Grade School Library"

The eldest great-grandkids (2 8yo, 1 5yo) all taught THEMSELVES to read while being bored with Kindergarten. Lately, the 8yo's went through their school's library, deemed it a waste of time and asked me to loan 'em some of my collection beginning with Harry Potter books.

Got those books all packed up and decided to add a few Mark Twain plus all the Doctor Seuss I can find for the little kids.

Their school librarian is supposed to be pullin' her hair out trying to stay ahead of the 8yo's...when she sees the kids with the books I'm sending she'll lose her mind.

Home Schoolers Rock.

[Melian]

I loved this book when I was their age:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6332150

[reed13k]

8 is about when both my girls read The Hobbit for the first time. Lord of the Rings followed the next year. A lot of people assume it’s outside kid’s ability, but the truth is they burn through everything put in front of them....maybe they don’t get all the subtleties, but the main story the absorb like a sponge.

I was a bit more concerned with my youngest as she was slower on the uptake than her sister, until I walked into her room to tell her supper was ready one day when she was seven. She had a James Patterson mystery in her hands and looked at me with sparkling eyes and said: “Dad, it’s like a movie in my head”. Knew I never had to worry about her reading ever again.

[thingumbob]

Add in for the boys: The Count of Monte Cristo (my all time favorite), The Man in the Iron Mask, Treasure Island, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and sometime later, Great Expectations, The Three Musketeers, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, and Shogun.

For the girls: Little Women, Little House on the Prairie, Gone with the Wind, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Phantom of the Opera, and The Great Gatsby.