For the younger ones:
Peter Pan
Through the Looking-Glass and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Winnie the Pooh
Pippi Longstocking
The Hardy Boys
The Famous Five and The Secret Seven, etc
For a little older:
The Little Prince
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Later still:
The Three Musketeers
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Bone People (NZ book)
Madame Bovary (hopefully in French, if Tim & I have done a proper job re education.
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Crime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
So they have a proper grounding in literature since so many works reference these:
The Iliad and the Odyssey
The Aeneid
Metamorphoses
Decameron
The Divine Comedy
There are so many more, though. So many. Hopefully by the time our darlings are old enough to read for themselves we'll have a well-stocked library for them to devour.
Peter Pan
Through the Looking-Glass and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Winnie the Pooh
Pippi Longstocking
The Hardy Boys
The Famous Five and The Secret Seven, etc
For a little older:
The Little Prince
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Later still:
The Three Musketeers
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Bone People (NZ book)
Madame Bovary (hopefully in French, if Tim & I have done a proper job re education.

Crime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
So they have a proper grounding in literature since so many works reference these:
The Iliad and the Odyssey
The Aeneid
Metamorphoses
Decameron
The Divine Comedy
There are so many more, though. So many. Hopefully by the time our darlings are old enough to read for themselves we'll have a well-stocked library for them to devour.
*MySmiley*
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
What books (other than SF-F) do you consider "vital" reading?
29/10/2009 12:02:04 PM
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My choices.
29/10/2009 01:20:07 PM
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Re: My choices.
30/10/2009 10:34:51 AM
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Heh.
06/11/2009 03:34:38 PM
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Re: they're going to get locked into a library full of books I will allow them to read.
29/10/2009 08:20:04 PM
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Dude. Don't censor your kids' books.
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30/10/2009 02:19:22 PM
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Re: Dude. How will they learn to read under the covers if I don't? *NM*
30/10/2009 04:06:08 PM
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Wait, what?
I only read under the covers when I was scared.
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31/10/2009 05:46:13 AM
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Re: I read under the covers, by torchlight, with a decoy book so they'd not know what I was reading.
31/10/2009 09:30:18 AM
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Such a bizarre mental image to an American.
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06/11/2009 01:41:14 AM
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I could not work out why it would be a bizarre image.
06/11/2009 03:27:26 PM
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Precisely. I was wondering how the sheets wouldn't burst into flames. *NM*
08/11/2009 06:54:49 AM
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I realise I forgot to include Beatrix Potter in my list. The shame.
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06/11/2009 03:37:19 PM
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Re: What books (other than SF-F) do you consider "vital" reading?
08/11/2009 04:19:18 PM
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