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>> | No. 5761
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Evening, |
>> | No. 5762
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The Bartimaeus Trilogy will be beyond him at the minute but one day he'll fucking love it. Same (perhaps) for Pratchett's Diggers, Truckers and Wings. |
>> | No. 5763
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>>5761 |
>> | No. 5764
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200px-SalamandastronUK[1].gif >>5761 |
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>>5761 |
>> | No. 5766
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7190-M.jpg Harry Potter is good, and you'll likely find yourself getting interested in the story after the second or third book. I might hold off on hitting the end of the series until your child is older, but by the time you've gotten through to Goblet Of Fire they should be able to cope. |
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ThePhantomTollbooth.jpg Is he too old for The Phantom Tollbooth? The answer to that is probably no. If he liked The Hobbit you might try Phantastes by George MacDonald. It's preferable to C.S. Lewis, at least. Some things by H.G. Wells are on a similar level to The Hobbit, as is The Tripod Trilogy and even the HHGTTG, if you don't mind him hearing about drinking. Stig of The Dump? Swallows and Amazons? |
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>>5764 |
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Picture-7-300x284.png The Phantom Tollbooth remains one of my favourite ever books. |
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>>5763 |
>> | No. 5771
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295181.jpg This series is also worth a crack. It might be a bit confusing and high-brow for a 7 year old (it's basically a fantasy re-imagining of 1984) but it's quite absorbing. Mudnuts! |
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>>5762 |
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>>5763 |
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There was a book I read as a child about a few dogs stranded on an island having come off a fishing boat. I can't for the life of me find what it is. |
>> | No. 5775
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>>5772 |
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>>5775 |
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Read him the nightly ramblings of .gs of course! |
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>>5776 |
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>>5766 |
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HowIEscaped.jpg |
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Excuse my ignorance but is seven not old enough to begin solo reading? I know I was devouring Horrible Histories at that age, though I was perhaps advanced. |
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>>5781 |
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>>5782 |
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>>5781 |
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HTTYD.jpg >>5761 |
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>>5781 |
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>>5770 |
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OP here, I've picked up Artemis Fowl today so I'll let you know what |
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>>5937 |
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>>5786 |
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing et al. are good to read to kids because putting on a small child's voice when reading Fudge's dialogue is fun. |
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>>5937 |
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War Horse - Michael Morpurgo |
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Please, let him work through the Goosebumps when he gets slightly older. |
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>>5761 |
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>>5761 Try the edge chronicles, rarely see them mentioned but they have pirates alchemy, airships, goblins, an odd world on the edge of the world, definitely worth reading if he's into action and some fairly magestic fantasy stories it's worth reading, also inkspell, inkheart. and the boy in striped pyjamas (although the modification to fuhrer and Auschwitz piss me off a bit) |
>> | No. 5990
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>>5989 also the adrien mole books are fairly fun, not sure how well they translate for the modern generation but great books anyway... |
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SpecialAttraction56.jpg I'd forgotten how sinister the Thomas the Tank Engine series was until I read Bulstrode to my daughter last night. Bulstrode was complaining at the docks while waiting go get loaded up and when Percy finally arrives the trucks are cheeky little shits whom end up falling off the docks into Bulstrode. They decide to make an example of Bulstrode by leaving him stranded on a beach to get covered in bird shit. |
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>>5990 |
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>>5761 |
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>>6186 |
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51MDTWAW3ML.jpg >>6185 |
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2z5YAn920KtoVAvyF1rcKIzGQzj.jpg The crashes are fairly tame, apart from perhaps the train drivers having mental breakdowns due to having to work with engines that have minds of their own and not infrequently come off the rails. |
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>>6190 |
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>Not reading your children British Empire history |
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OP here, we're working our way through Narnia. I'd forgotten how much casual sexism is in them. |
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>>6233 |
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>>6234 |
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>>6265 |
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>>6265 |
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Well done, OP. You've read your kid the Narnia novels, and thus brought a wee little ARE SI into the world. |
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>>6268 |
>> | No. 6278
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Most of the way through The Last Battle, although I'm only getting half the story as he'll read a chapter or two to himself after I've read to him. In the last chapter I read the dwarfs started calling the Calormenes darkies. |
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OP here again, lads. |
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>>6613 |
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>>6613 |
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>>6613 |
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Thanks, lads. |
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>>6618 |
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>>5761 can fully recommend |
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>>6642 |
>> | No. 6650
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Since this is up top again, I'm going to repeat my support for the Bartimaeus trilogy (>>5762) because they were so much fun when I was young, its about a young twatty kid in a pseudo-alternative reality where the British empire is still on the go, and a certain class of people (aristocracy types) can summon different levels of imps, genies, etc. It's about this kid who gives it a shot at a young age and his adventures with this sassy Djinn called Bartimaeus and how they end up getting involved in higher level politics (that makes it sound dull but it's really not). |
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>>6650 |
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>>6648 |
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IMG_20170922_165115393_HDR.jpg >>6642>>6648 |
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>>6667 |
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>>6668 |
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Wiki-background.jpg >>5761 |
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>>6671 |
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Going off on the horns of a furious tangent... |
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>>6675 |
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>>6674 |
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Bdc6ed348f60262a2bb15fd34ea.jpg OP here again. |
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Success, lads. He's asked if I'll buy him more Terry Pratchett books. |
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>>6750 |
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DbkbFBhUQAAd0j0.jpg Disney have announced they are releasing an Artemis Fowl film next year, based on the first two books. |
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Nonso_Anozie_at_the_Pan_Premiere_(cropped) (1).jpg >>6757 |
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>>6759 |
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>>6757 |
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>>6762 |
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>>6759 |
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>>6759 |
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dave-bautista-interview-1097793-TwoByOne.jpg >>6769 |
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MV5BOWRmZGEzNjktYjc0YS00ZjlmLWI3MmMtYWJiMTViMmIwYm.jpg >>6769 |
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