Essential Kidcore

i'll start

...

Harry Potter
Earthsea
Lord of the Rings
Riftwar

found the /lgbt/tard, back to your containment board homo

...

great choice, was my favorite as a kid
also this

Narn yuh

Goosebumps. R L Stine was the hero of my childhood.

Louis Sachar is GOAT. Wayside School and There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom were great

I'd replace Lord of the Rings for the Hobbit

Meh, not for kids. I feel like the premise of lotr (you must go save the world) teaches a better lesson than the Hobbit(go help these guys, they'll pay you lots of money). Plus lotr has the whole anti-industrialism thing at the end, with Sharkey. Don't get me wrong, I love both, but I think that kids can learn more from lotr.

Artemis Fowl
Charlie Bone
Percy Jackson

I have yet to see nonfiction mentioned.

This was my favorite book as a kid.

Significantly overrated by adults, but a great read in elementary or middle school. I must've read it eight or nine times.

...

...

I read it when I was 9 and so did several of my friends

Oh shit. Totally forgot I read about 20 of these back in the day

just randomly picked one

>ctrl+f
>no Redwall

You fuckers are such plebs, it physically hurts.

start with the scandinavians

Loved this whole series as a kid.

>tfw I read all these great books in elementary school
>tfw I have no idea what their titles were, so I'll probably never see them again
>tfw I kinda never want to read them again either, as seeing them now will probably ruin my fond memories

Anyone else know this feel?

The one about the mirror was the spookiest.

the spookiest was the one about the school

if you just google "book where eroiweroiwejrwer happens" you'll probably come across them again. but yeah, i would advise against actually reading them again.

One of those books where I asked to stay up till i at least found a place to stop.

How is The Phantom Tollbooth? Just heard about this and somehow it was never once mentioned by anyone during my childhood.

The Hobbit and LotR
Discworld
The Little Prince
Jungle Tales (a book by Uruguayan author Horacio Quiroga)
Verne's collection (Journey to the Center of the Earth has a special place in my heart)
Charlotte's Web
The Secret Garden
The Wind in the Willows

This are the books I loved when I was a kid ( all but Discworld as I read those when I was 24 years old). I think a of them can be read and enjoyed before age 13. I know I did.
Thanks grandpa.

...

this ,redwall is essential

Series of Unfortunate Events
Animorphs
Cricket in Times Square
Bailey School Kids
Wrinkle in Time

It's pretty clever and fun, I read it for the first time a few years ago and liked it a lot.

Ive never read that book but it looks depressing

OUT OF THE WAY

how does it hold up>?

>Percy Jackson
is this how kids should start with the greeks?

Somehow I read the entire series but to this day I can't remember shit about it except that part where one kid tries to teach the basic phonics of his language (something scandinavian I think) to some other kid. Oh and there was an extremely dense rock or something.

...

its my favorite kids book, I'm the guy who just posted it
I'm reading it again right now as an adult, its actually pretty deep for a kids book

posting another

I loved this book

The Moomin books by Tove Jansson are good. Anything by Roald Dahl (especially my uncle Oswald :^))

...

I could read and write at age 3, and this book is the main reason for that.

I'll definitely buy it for my kids, too.

...

>fiction exists to brainwash children with leftist propaganda

I'd read a kids mythology book, then Percy jackson. That way you get to say hey I get that reference. Procrustes as a mattress salesman? That's a nice modern take on the myth.

WAIT.
Is that the book where the kid was abandoned and she wants to find her real mom, imagining her as this great lady who had no choice but to give her up, but it turns out she was just a trailer trash bitch?

TAMORA PIERCE UP IN THIS BITCH

>written by a woman
What are you thinking user?

Don't even fucking start. Tamora Pierce writes GOAT child-core.

i don't remember much about the 'Just' books but i do remember the covers and that i at least read crazy and disgusting, i think

Good taste

Almost thought no one had posted ASOUE, my all time favorite series. It's basically an introduction to literature. The patrician HP.

>go help these guys, they'll pay you lots of money
That's not the "lesson" of The Hobbit. The story is about a small ordinary person becoming brave and mighty while having adventures. LOTR is the same, but more complex and not as kid-friendly with its focus on language, politics and lore.

My 10 year old loves The Hobbit but can't finish LOTR because "it's boring".

Eoin Colfer irritates me.
Artemis Fowl was good, but then you look at his other books like Half Moon Investigations or Airman.
All 3 feel the same. You have a young kid who has higher than average intelligence that makes adults look stupid.
Young kid proceeds to do something nobody else believes is possible
>Artemis kid discovers faeries and beats them in a game of wits
>Half Moon kid uncovers crime spree that all ties back to one butthurt dad
>Flyboy kid escapes wrongful imprisonment, creates flying machine, prevents political assassination.
It feels like the same story with different characters, kid does impossible stuff by being smart. Makes me think Eoin Colfer has fantasies about being a super genius who beats everyone, creates these fantasies for him to jerk off to.

...

Industrialization is liberal

definitely Narnia

I think this book is disturbing because it promotes exhibitionism.

...

Essential reading for little ones.

Make sure to bring your map along! Go colour filling as you read the book it to keep track of your progress.

Absolute patrician taste

Not to mention one of the major themes in the book is how wealth corrupts. Mainly how Thorin goes batshit in the end and a major war is fought over the loot.

Underrated post

>Series of Unfortunate Events
>Animorphs
>Cricket in Times Square
>Bailey School Kids
>Wrinkle in Time

Found my friend from elementary

This book made me become a reader of books.

This is also a pretty good book. Read it in middle school, I had the first book as an assignment but I ended up reading the rest of the series on my own. Don't really remember much what happened.

These guys know their shit

Exactly. The Hobbit is a lot more kid-suitable than LOTR.

Redwall is a timeless classic. What makes it truly successful, in my opinion, is its perfect mix of fun adventure and real emotional gravity. It's got death and suffering, but it never once felt grimdark to me the way, say, some of the later Harry Potter books did. I have yet to find another kids' series that gets the balance so right.

Plus there's the amazing world-building and food porn. I want strawberry cordial now.

This beaut.

This book sucked and I don't know why they had us read it.

This one had a pretty big effect on me when I was a kid.

Shit man, even as a kid I thought this was garbage.

no

you have terrible taste then

Anyone here remember Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark?

junie b jones

animorphs

I was from a shitty middle school so we had piss poor book selection, I loved reading a lot and picked those up. So when I got to 7th grade I brought one along and my English teacher called me out for reading children books. Fucking embarrassing since I never thought about it like that and I stopped reading for years.

the first book i ever read was Ulysses, my dad didn't let me read pleb shit.

YES

>Anything by Roal Dahl

My son will love this!

The NeverEnding Story
Riddley Walker
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Anne of Green Gables
The Little Prince
The Wind in the Willows
Jacob Have I Loved

one thing i still don't understand about animorphs are the clothes morphing too. i could make allowances for some superpower shit where someone was able to shape shift from one biological organism into another but how the fuck do you make inanimate clothes just disappear and reappear on you?

irrelevant to the greater plot

The Mixed Up of (I forget the rest).
Girl decides she's going to run away from home, and takes her brother with her for a reason I forget.
She decides the best place to go is the museum, back before they had cameras everywhere.
Yadda yadda, grand old time, shit's trickier than they thought, and they figure out that a new statue donated to the museum is a lost Michelangelo piece.
They take a taxi to the title character's mansion, have a little chat and they head home.

The Belgariad.

Great fantasy, super generic, absolutely readable for a kid.

These were my shit, also this

Baum Oz series, Michael Ende's Neverending Story.

The Wind in the Willows
the Chronicles of Narnia
Watership Down
Redwall
Hatchet
My Side of the Mountain
Something Wicked this Way Comes


rate my list fagots

>lemony snicket

yus

>ctrl+f 'Emil and the Detectives'
>nahssing
Mein Gott, zeez Amehrikahns deserve zee Endlösung.

Dune's a good book for kids

>no cherub
>no Darren Shan

This series was intense

>calling your series a "sequence" in a desperate attempt to make it sound less generic

you bet your frumpy ass he will! It has bitch in the title, he'll fuckin' eat it up, and you'll be the cool parent for life.

Obligatory Roald Dahl post

Represeeeent