I'm trying to create a nice library with classic children's books for my daughter, like Heide, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, A Dog of Flanders, When Marnie was There, The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, as to prepare her to the real ones when she comes of age like Dostoyevsky, Proust, Balzac, Tolstoy and to cultivate a reading habit since an early age. I know Anne is considered a classic, but how does it hold up to the other ones on the list? I'm avoiding modern shit like Hunger Games and Harry Potter and other works deprived of morality, ethics and in which sole purpose is to "entertain" with some fantastical bullshit stories.
Might as well ask, what other books do you think could complement the list so far?
hunger games and harry potter have no more or less moral and ethical statements than anne of green gables. I think what you mean by "deprived of morality and ethics" is "has moral and ethical views that reinforce my opinions".
Gavin Barnes
Harry Potter is Unironically not a bad childrens book, at least till the 4th book or so. Rowling starts taking herself seriously after that.
Just let her read books that create a love for literature and reading. At a young age, she is most probably going to be interested in exciting plots.
Juan Thompson
>le children and adults lit dicotomy
Your daughter will grow up to be a pleb.
Matthew Jenkins
I'm not interested in debating a faggot about how shit Harry Potter and Hunger Games are in comparison to other children's classics and how they lack in regards to moral teachings. Those are books meant to entertain the masses with some stupid stories (and sometimes even with a political agenda behind).
Actually, that wasn't even the point of the thread.
Xavier Gutierrez
If you don't let her read Harry Potter you're setting her up to get bullied
Colton Perez
Just give her some Pynchon
Jonathan Baker
Canadian here.
Ann of Green gables is boring trash let her read HP
Elijah Peterson
What in the actual fuck? Was this board ever filled with so many Harry Potter shills?
Cooper Nguyen
just get her an ipad with a youtube app and let it do the parenting for you
what could go wrong?
Levi Gutierrez
I already reluctant in letting her watch those modern animations. The only ones I'm allowing so far are Ghibli movies and some Pixar films.
Asher Wilson
Technology habits should be cultivated at an early age. Teach her some coding, it will make her life a lot easier if she wants to be an author.
Michael Miller
I see, but how exactly are those two things related?
Wyatt Perez
Alice is pretty much all you need
Robert Bennett
There is literally nothing wrong with an ipad youtube kids app.
I thought the kid was watching some forbidden content.
Liam Wright
Nah, i think that's a core concept kind of pic
Christopher Jackson
I never had a father, so I never received a formal education, I was a complete degenerate, I remember starting to watch porn when I was 10 years old, I also did some pretty stupid shit around that age like grabbing my mother's tits in front of my friends for laughs. I feel sorry for that kid.
Ayden Martinez
Roald Dahl is a personal childhood favorite, he is one of the reasons for my love of reading.
Tales of adventure and fantasy, so she can use her childish imagination. Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's travels, etc. But that depends on how old she is. How old is she?
Jason Myers
10 years old. I think she's prepared to read those.
Thanks for the recommendations.
Austin Reyes
Not even memeing. Get her started into the Greeks by reading her Greek Myths and Plays. Including Homer. Go for a children's version.
Jayden Wood
Oh, that's a nice idea actually. Thanks.
Jaxon Torres
>poptimism has spread to literature time for a new hobby. Does Veeky Forums unironically endorse eating McDonalds yet? I might go there for a while.
delet this, the only official anime of green gables is the proto-Ghibli one.
Easton Stewart
The Swiss Family Robinson, Mark Twain, Jules Verne
Also I think you should let her read some modern stuff it may be trash but it's fun and she'd have something to talk with her friends about.
Tyler Brooks
Anne of Green Gables and Anne of the Island are pretty good. Avonlea is a snore, and the rest of the series is okay.
The other books you listed are really good choices, particularly Heidi, Marnie, and Flanders. Anne doesn't really compare to them, but its pretty enjoyable.
Other books I'd suggest are Ende's The Neverending Story and Momo, Gaarder's Sophie's World, and George MacDonald's Lilith and The Princess and the Goblin (particularly if she likes Narnia).
Jason Robinson
Just read my five year old son Collodi's Pinocchio. He couldn't get enough of it. The talking cricket, however, is immediately killed by P with a hammer, and pursues him as a kind of fury, or ghost. Also the original blue-haired fairy is actually the spirit of a dead girl. The original's meaner than the Disney, but also concludes with the sense of having been dreamt by the real boy P.
That series is terrible, I watched the first 2 episodes and they shoved a lot of feminism and other shit into this classic story. Then I read some reviews and was surprised to see thst they put even some lesbian shit in there, wtf is wrong with the world these days. I also found Anne's actress to be really annoying, she couldn't capture the Anne of the books correctly.
Andrew Young
Stone Fuckin' Fox, dad.
Nathan Wright
Gullivers Travels is absolutely filthy.
Sebastian Kelly
Pollyanna, for one. What's wrong with a positive attitude? Also, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Little House on the Prairie and her other books. Really good stuff about survival in primitive conditions. Much better than the bullshit movie and TV shows.
