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To: Redcitizen
Freeper challenge!
Excellent topic! Ten best books for kids under 12?
19 posted on 03/07/2023 5:58:02 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: outofsalt

My recommendations are from my male perspective on books for boys under 12: anything by Jack London, Mark Twain, Jules Verne. Also books telling Bible stories, some C. S. Lewis, Tolkien’s The Hobbit.


24 posted on 03/07/2023 6:39:23 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: outofsalt

Well, i got 7 of ten already. :)

Let’s hear your top ten and any other Freepers can chime in.


30 posted on 03/07/2023 7:21:33 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: outofsalt
Aesop's Fables.

I would place it right behind the Bible in foundational books.

It was one of the first books printed on the printing press after the Bible so at least some people used to agree with me.

32 posted on 03/07/2023 7:23:01 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: outofsalt

Off the top of my head and subject to great changes:

Farmer Boy
Aesops Fables, well illustrated
Go Dog Go
Curious George
Paddle to the Sea
Peter Rabbit
The Great Brain
Billy and Blaze
The Ride of Paul Revere, well illustrated
Ramona the Pest


37 posted on 03/07/2023 8:12:38 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: outofsalt

Charlotte’s Web
Aesop’s Fables
Little Women
Mr Popper’s Penguins
Heidi
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Ralph S Mouse
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Hobbit
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
Give a Mouse a Cookie (complete series of books there)
Rush Revere books
All of a Kind Family
A Wrinkle in Time

My daughter loved Sweet Valley Twins. I did not, but I sure bought every single one of them. Son loved coffee table books about weapons, history, airplanes, etc. Only series he would read was R L Stine’s Goosebumps. I am on restriction right now as my grandchildren have run out of room for books, but I’ve got a stockpile for each of them sitting at my house.


41 posted on 03/08/2023 12:50:36 AM PST by mom aka the evil dictator
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