What books should I read to my child, and at what age? I'm thinking like 2-8 years recommendations...

>He doesn't write the stories he reads to his child

The Iron Man by Ted Hughes is a great book for children. Read it to him every night.

here again just to point out what is hopefully obvious: don't wait 'til they're 2 to start reading to them. looking for real books is fun and all well and good, but start them early with simple books with strong meter and rhyme and lots of simple, bright pictures.

What is a good age to start?

Watership down

i was definitely reading to him regularly by 6 months, maybe even earlier; i don't remember exactly. every day before nap and before bed, plus randomly throughout the day. and i worked on getting him engaged with the books: if it had a color or number i had him point to it, i had him turn pages, ask him what he saw in pictures or where something specific was, what letter a word started with or where a specific letter was, etc. he's still mad for reading, both looking at books on his own and having them read to him.

Studies have shown benefits to reading to children literally in the womb, so start as early as possible and do it frequently. Even if it feels pointless that early, it's wiring their brain to understand vocabulary already.

Just start with the popular kids/youth fiction eg. Roald Dahl, Harry Potter, The Hobbit,

They might start a love for reading.

Winnie the Pooh, Andersen's Fairy Tales, Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Richard Scarry books are great, Through the Look8ng Glass, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Chronicles of Narnia...

Magic Treehouse, Warrior Cats, Redwall, Ga'Hoole, A Wrinkle in Time, and Harry Potter are a few things I can think of a kid reading. Anything published by Schoolastic is usually a good start as well.

Forgot Animorphs and Narnia

Summary of a previous thread. Consider the following:

Chronicles of Narnia
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Rats of Nimh
Redwall
Indian in the Cupboard
Heidi
Anne of Green Gables
The Secret Garden
Chronicles of Narnia
Watership Down
The Wind in the Willows
Roahl Dahl
Captain Underpants
Animorphs
Deltora Quest
Captain Underpants
Dragonet Prophecy: Wings of fire
Earthsea
Hobbit + Lord of the Rings
Riftwar
Magic Tree House
Louis Sachar - Holes - There's a boy in the Girl's Bathroom - Wayside School
Artemis Fowl
Charlie Bone
Percy Jackson
E.L. Konig'sburg - From the mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Little Prince
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Phantom Tollbooth
Terry Pratchet - Discworld
Verne's collection (Journey to the Center of the Earth has a special place in my heart)
Charlotte's Web
Bunnicula
Cricket in Times Square
Bailey School Kids
Wrinkle in Time
The Dark is rising sequence
Cricket in Times Square
Bailey School Kids
Wrinkle in Time
Moomin
The game of sunken places
Bill Martin Jr - Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Little Critter
Ted Hughes - The Iron Man
A Tale from Dimwood Forest - Poppy Avi
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Giving Tree
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O
Rudyard Kipling - Puck of Pook's Hill, Just So Stories
Just Crazy / Just Disgusting Terry Denton
Nancy Farmer, the House of the scorpion
The Giver - Louis Lowry
Gary Paulson - Hatchet
Riddley Walker
A Little Princess
Jacob Have I Loved
The Belgariad. (Great fantasy, super generic, absolutely readable for a kid.)
My Side of the Mountain
Something Wicked this Way Comes
Jonathon Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy
Edward Eager - Half Magic
Michael Ende - Momo
Emily Rodda - Rowan of Rin
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Six Dinner Sid
Judy Blume - Tale's of a four grade nothing
Alvin Schwartz - Scary Stories
Where the sidewalk ends Shel Silverstein
The Tale of Despereaux
When Marnine was There
Spiderwick Chronicles
J.J. MacHale - Pendragon The Merchant of Death
Garth Nix - Sabriel
Treasure Island
Deltora Quest
Jill Murphy - The Worst Witch
Jerry Spinelli - Maniac Magee
Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines
Rodman Philbrick The Last Book in the Universe
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Ella Enchanted
Brandon Sanderson's Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians
Call of the Wild (Jack London?)
Jack London - White Fang
Beverly Cleary - The mouse and the Motorcycle
The ark of the people
Marion Dane Bauer - On my honor
John Reynolds Gardiner - Stone Fox
Diana Wynne Jones

Apologies for any repetition.

a lot of these are advanced enough that by the time they're appropriate a kid should be doing most of their reading on their own. i'm not anticipating reading every night to a 3rd grader.

>3rd millenium
>books
give them a fuckin ipad and show them things they want to see ffs
t. father of 2 (3 & 10 yo)

If you want fantasy that teaches good values to kids, I'd recommend Narnia. But 2-8 might be just a little young. For them to read it themselves, at least.

Yeah, there's a very mixed age range in the list. It was Veeky Forums's opinions of children's literature.

For 2-8, Starting off with the Oxford Reading Tree books is pretty good, but can be pricey for what you get. Magic Tree House series is comfy. Jacqueline Wilson, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Captain Underpants for later on.

Read to him Harold Bloom's suggestions for childrens literature

>mrbauld.com/bloomjr.html

>his child doesn't tell him the stories he writes

Enid Blyton
Beatrix Potter
CS Lewis
Roald Dahl
Aesop's Fables
Brother's Grimm collected folktales
Hans Christian Anderson

Der Giftpilz
Trau keinem Fuchs auf grüner Heid und keinem Jud auf seinem Eid

these would make the kid a Nazi

Enciclopedias for kids.
My mom used to read me encyclopedias for kids when I was very young and I developed an iq of 150.
It's also true that I ended up unironically browsing Veeky Forums.
So maybe don't.

Das Kapital

...

This, and a lot of other heavily conceptual philosophy, while they're still too young to use language (as babies). This is also the period during which you should be exposing them to copious amounts of Bach, Mozart, and Rossini. But mostly Bach.

Bloom edited an anthology of children’s literature: “Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages”

without a shred of memery or irony,

Finnegans Wake

It is the ultimate facilitator of the dream life

Especially poignant in the minds of children who have not fully embraced one archetypal language and are closer to the poetic source and rhythm of all language

dickens
poe
mark twain
tolstoy
les miserables
homer
parts of the bible
tolkein

ITT : no one has ever met a child

Mr. Men
Barbapapa
Little Blue and Little Yellow
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Drôles de petites bêtes (French)
plenty of other shit here:

1001childrensbooksyoumustreadbef.weebly.com/ages-3.html

also, these animated tv series are cool to learn some french:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotro
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_(French_TV_series)

but first of all, you're mostly in for lots and lots and lots and lots of these:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletubbies
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Night_Garden...

best of luck with the sleepless nights covered in piss, shit and vomit, op
i know you can do it

which is all fine and dandy until you come to the realisation that children of all ages are like extremely dense little drunk people with short attention span who don't give half a shit about your faggy old bloom's opinion

t. browse /a/ with a 3yo

I have a 6 month old daughter and she loves Goodnight Moon, mostly loves the bright colors and loves putting it in her mouth.

I am also reading the Iliad to her.

children come in ages higher than four dude

correct me if i'm wrong, but they come in age lower than four first
dude
also
>I'm thinking like 2-8 years recommendations.
good luck reading to a child 'parts of the bible', 'das kapital' and 'finnegan's shit', i guess

wow i guess i must be everyone else in the thread besides you and all those recommendations were mine

And in other languages other than English?

I'm interested in children books in Spanish.

As soon as they start to understand language.

The Odyssey, of course.

wow i guess you have nothing meaningful to contribute then

anything aimed at children from before 1945. Youll struggle to find inappropriate material because childrens books, by their nature, arent complicated and its hard to fuck them up unless youre trying (like by having gay or even sexual characters as an example). The main thing is to make it enjoyable so the kid wants to be read to (and later to read) so make sure youre emotive and do voices for the characters. There have been enough singular recommendations itt already.

yeah, just micromanage them and cut them from the outside world
this guy gets it
fucking retard

kids know what they like by themselves very early on
just show them everything you can and be there for explanations, or just to say you don't know
they will find out for themselves what suits them best
every child is different
also, don't forget music, animation, walks in the forest, going to the beach, seeing animals and cool stuff and anything you want to show them really
they are very sensitive and understanding

/pol/ threads

>encouraging one thing means discouraging all independent thought

I'd absolutely fucking hate to be you even for two minutes.

>anything aimed at children from before 1945
I wonder who can be behind this post?
>I'd absolutely fucking hate
keep on doing what you do best, user

>yeah, just micromanage them and cut them from the outside world
>not exposing 7 year olds who arent sexually mature and wouldnt understand any sort of sexuality to something like transgenderism or homosexuality is cutting them off from the real world and micromanaging them
I dont know what to say. If you dont at least 'micromanage' your kids by skim reading whatever youre going to read to them then youre a bad parent and the same goes for any tv, video games or anything else you let them engage in.

>I wonder who can be behind this post?
Doesnt have much relevance to what i said though does it? Im hardly pushing an agenda on my kid by reading grimm's fairy tales am i? Compare that to a book about 2 gays and an evil homophobe.

Regardless of what you think about all this it is innapropriate to teach sexually immature people about sexuality because it will only confuse them. Tolerance is fine, good even, but there are no gay 10 year olds for the same reason that there are no straight ones and so neither have any place in a childrens novel.

I dont really understand what youre saying. A 9 year old isnt capable of proper independent thought for what i hope are obvious reasons. You can try to instill in them the ideas of logic, reason and whatever else but they wont mature for a decade. I dont advocate for encouraging homosexuality to children but neither do i advocate the opposite or any sort of sexuality (tacity, through being part of a nuclear family normality is advocated but thats inevitable). Not teaching someone about gays (and these books dont really do that anyway) does not encourage them to hate gays.

But are you doing all the funny voices?
Came in here to rec Tintin and Lloyd Alexander since I haven't seen them mentioned yet.

1/ micromanaging ≠ skim reading
2/ why 1945 and not 1939?
3/ kids don't give a shit as long as it's fun

>2-8 years
that's like, 5 different demographics, you dip
I remember these books from when I was small- like 3 or 4. They're frankly amazing, and I HIGHLY recommend them. They're just science books, really, but they're wonderful to look at, and they really do explain shit that even toddlers can understand.
They're from the japanese to german and they're called "Kinder Entdecken" I don't know what they're called in english, but they have to be translated to english somewhere, because they are amazing. There's about 100 of them.

Later, get them Tamora Pierce and the Xanth books.

here's a bigger picture, and they always have the little figure somewhere, so keep a lookout for him.

> micromanaging ≠ skim reading
you said it so what is it? All i said was check the books your kids read before they do.
> why 1945 and not 1939?
I was going to say 1950 originally but changed it to be more conservative and obvious in its implication. Why not 1938, 1947 or 1948? Its not important and there are good books after this. The point is avoid certain content which has proliferated since 1945
>kids don't give a shit as long as it's fun
That isnt the point. Im sure if tou gave your kid thw option of eating sweets more then theyd relish it but you dont because it isnt good for them. These books instill ideas in them and its important which onces you pick.

had the chinese version
can confirm

>lewronggeneration.jpg

When I was a kid, me and my friends was mainly interested in cigars and pornography.

would've hang out with/10

yo, my man!

Exposing your child to the greatest variety of words between the ages of 1-3 is directly correlated to intelligence. Sit by his or her bedside and read aloud to him or her the works of Homer (in the original Greek), Shakespeare and Marlowe, Dante, Milton, Joyce, Proust (in the original French), and possibly Pynchon, due to the breadth of his vocabulary. Read them aloud by the bedside. Forget children’s books.

typical dipshit.
read fanny and zooey.

>give them a fuckin ipad and show them things they want to see ffs
>t. browse /a/ with a 3yo
BABIES HAVING BABIES

OP I loved Frog & Toad Are Friends, The Velveteen Rabbit, Paddington Bear and Babar. I guess Babar is problematic these days but who cares it's a family of elephants having bad-ass adventures. My favorite was my mom reading me a Bible story before bed though. It didn't turn me into a turbochristian or anything, it was more a light morality tale/decent story plus the experience of her reading to me from the book kept on my nightstand just for that purpose.

started fantastic mr. fox with my 2 1/2 y.o. yesterday and he stayed interested so we read the whole thing. took about 1:20. his attention span blows my fucking mind.

the jungle book

Charlemagne's Dickings

...

>BABIES HAVING BABIES
my two daughters are perfectly fluent in two languages and now top of their classes after years of homeschooling, but what do i know?
fucking luddite

I remember my mom reading to me exactly once and she gave up after the first page. My dad only ever had me read as a punishment.

sue these fuckers

I did and lost. They're counter-suing for emotional damages from their child not appreciating their parenting.

I have. Irrelevant.

time for deep web hitman desu

>Top of their classes
>Homeschooled
Bra-fucking-vo

Tom's Midnight Garden

can't fucking read/10