To Kill a Mockingbird
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Winnie The Pooh
Through the Looking-Glass and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Hardy Boy's/Nancy Drew
Shakespeare (take them to see productions of his plays. Children get more than adults think they will, I know I did)
All books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Any/all Sherlock Holmes books
Wind in the Willows
Paddington Bear
Watership Down
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
My two lists are long...
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Winnie The Pooh
Through the Looking-Glass and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Hardy Boy's/Nancy Drew
Shakespeare (take them to see productions of his plays. Children get more than adults think they will, I know I did)
All books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Any/all Sherlock Holmes books
Wind in the Willows
Paddington Bear
Watership Down
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
My two lists are long...

CrazedWeasel
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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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This is harder for me than your last question.
- 01/11/2009 03:21:46 AM
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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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- 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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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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- 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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- 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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