tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post1994143475633706037..comments2024-03-20T19:40:58.078-05:00Comments on The OF Blog: Books for an Imagined Future Niece or NephewLarry Nolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16001420558511460998noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-66150877777197897652008-02-20T10:05:00.000-06:002008-02-20T10:05:00.000-06:00Some more good suggestions! And yeah, I debated o...Some more good suggestions! And yeah, I debated on which Chesterton to include, but I thought around 15-16, maybe <I>The Man Who Was Thursday</I> would make for an interesting, subversive read.<BR/><BR/>And looking back at my list, I'm mortified that I left off Kenneth Grahame's <I>The Wind in the Willows</I>!Larry Nolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001420558511460998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-19950333057347560452008-02-20T08:53:00.000-06:002008-02-20T08:53:00.000-06:00I highly recommend these stories I enjoyed in my e...I highly recommend these stories I enjoyed in my early years: <BR/>Enid Blyton (in particular the Wishing Chair and Faraway Tree series),<BR/>Roald Dahl, <BR/>Asterix & Obelix series,<BR/>Tintin series.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16783444803842695470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-928335124095577632008-02-18T21:22:00.000-06:002008-02-18T21:22:00.000-06:00The Man Who Was Thursday??That's seems a little he...The Man Who Was Thursday??<BR/><BR/>That's seems a little heavy...might as well get him 'Orthodoxy' or 'What's Wrong with the World.' (Father Brown sounds more like it) <BR/><BR/>Bulfinch's, though, that's impressionable. As a boy in elementary school I read Bulfinch's during the bus ride to and fro school, and the only part I remember is the fellow getting his beard tangled in a tree limb and dying! Maybe that's what sparked my love of story!<BR/><BR/>I remember really enjoying the works of George MacDonald. The Princess and the Ring, I think it's called. (Lilith and Phantases boggled my mind) Oh, and my favorite was 'At the Back of the North Wind.' I really saw myself as little Diamond. Oh, and Hawthorne wrote two incredible little works for children (A Wonder Book, and Tanglewood Tales.) Among my favorites. But I'm biased. Hawthorne is a deity of language, in my humble experience.<BR/><BR/>timblynodAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-51137690634715571802008-02-17T04:14:00.000-06:002008-02-17T04:14:00.000-06:00Thanks, both of you, for the congratulations and f...Thanks, both of you, for the congratulations and for the suggestions, which are quite good ones! :DLarry Nolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001420558511460998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-64722206832647172572008-02-17T04:03:00.000-06:002008-02-17T04:03:00.000-06:00More Nesbit and Lindgren - I remember "Mio, My Mio...More Nesbit and Lindgren - I remember "Mio, My Mio" as my favourite.<BR/>Other favourite books of my childhood were Michael Ende - "The Neverending Story" and "Momo".<BR/>Also Erich Kästner – "The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas".<BR/>Of newer authors I like Garth Nix - the "Old Kingdom" stories - "Lirael", "Sabriel" and "Abhorsen" and recent (and not yet finished but surely to be when your hypothetical niece/nephew grows up enough to be able to read it) "The Keys to the Kingdom" series. Both series have Christian undertones so should be fine.<BR/>Maybe also Jonathan Stroud's "The Bartimaeus Trilogy".<BR/>And then Erikson of course ;P<BR/><BR/>BTW I'm sure that by the time s/he will be old enough for you to give her/him de Sade s/he will be choosing book by her/himself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-59513879818905797412008-02-16T19:26:00.000-06:002008-02-16T19:26:00.000-06:00Mazel Tov to your brother. Or something more appr...Mazel Tov to your brother. Or something more appropriate.<BR/><BR/>Ah The Phantom Tollbooth. The memories! The memories! I'm having a Proustian moment here.<BR/><BR/>You already have Kipling, but you might add the Just So Stories. To be read aloud, with lots of beautiful pictures to show. "Once upon a time, O my Best Beloved..."Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11234736402558498546noreply@blogger.com