What book would you give a child for Christmas, /lit/?
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Kevin Costner's new graphic novel The Explorers Guild is really good for like a 12-15 year old boy. Boy specifically, it's like an introduction to the idea of the masculine idealized adventure of the 19th and 20th century. Really strongly recommend it. It has gently handled and introduced philosophical elements, an engaging thought provoking and real-world applicable story(i.e. not like harry potter - kids will learn valuable lessons from this book).
>>7413348
Hello Kevin!
120 Days of Sodom
>>7413264
Winnie the Pooh or A A Milne books
Tintin or Asterix
Roald Dahl
It's basically a non-shit Harry Potter.
Industrial Society and its Future
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A healthy dose of Cultural Marxism
Finnegans Wake
its problably wide known in usa or england ,but no so much in hispanic circles.
And i like that a children books tells you to distrust adults.
for a female child? Lolita.
>>7413264
I offer OP's pic to every child I have to buy a gift to.
"Why your shit's dumb and retarded" Anonymous (it's actually a speech)
>>7413264
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
Aesop Fables
D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths.
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>>7413264
Pyramid
Castle
Ender's Game if pre-teen
>>7413358
Black Ships Before Troy is a great childs adaptation
>>7413883
This, and any of the rest of D'Aulaires books. The Norse one is great, as is their biography of abraham lincoln (excepting the fact that they cut out his assassination)
>>7413888
Things get a little cleaned up for kids, but seriously, those books have given me a solid grounding in classical myth that has followed me most of my life.
>>7413879
this or La Fontaine's fables
or a kids adaptation of some classics/Greek mythology
Dumas, R. L. Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle or Tolkien are typical recommendations.
I'd also add Voltaire or Chesterton.
>>7413264
I've never read this. Is it good for an adult to read?
For what it's worth, I really enjoyed Winnie the Pooh when I read it at the age of twenty (I'm twenty-six now).
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Who comes to 4chan to ask about what to give to a child
ERB's Barsoom, Pellucidar and Caspak series.
>>7413264
How old a child are we talking about?
>>7414409
It's the first book I ever read, I learned many things from it that many years later I still take to heart. I highly recommend it. It's a pretty easy read too, comparable to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, but The Little Prince is filled with fantasy instead.
>>7414551
34 years
>>7414551
He is 10. Up until now he read typical kids books like David Walliams and diary of a wimpy kid. I want to introduce him to slightly more mature books without scaring him off, he really likes to read.
>>7414409
It's worth it. Definitely.
Although I have to admit I enjoyed it a lot more as an adult than as a child.
>>7413388
>quentin blake is still alive
>>7414776
/thread
Lolita/Lolito
wind in the willows
a wrinkle in time
the hobbit
Alice In Wonderland of courseOr Rumpelstiltskin
Mein Kampf
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!
>>7413264
'Animal Farm' so they know at an early age their government wants to fuck them over.
>>7413264
The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner
Favorite of children all over the internet.
how old
what gender
>>7413264
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its sequel.
>>7415741
10
xe hasn't made any decisions on xir gender yet
>>7414712
I read the Hobbit when I was 10
>>7416210
This is what we've come to.
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
A Wrinkle in Time
Classics all three.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie's_World
>>7413264
Where the Red Fern Grows. Great book for children all around tbqhwy
A diary, to be h
>>7414499
That's a good pick. I loved it as a kid.
>>7414950
mein negro
>>7413264
This motherfucker.
I don't care if it's 700+ pages, it has illustrations and is basically German surrealism written by a man who used to draw cartoons of a young Adolf Hitler.
It's funny, wild and likely drug fuelled - a great read for weird little shits. Just read the plot synopsis if you don't believe me.
>>7417107
Good choice, it's really a great series of books
It gets more mature and more "meta" with each book, vastly underrated
>>7413264
The Little Prince is the best
also
Alice in Wonderland
Holes
The Hobbit
Because of Winn-Dixie
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Those are my favorite children booksThe kid is gonna hate you anyway for giving him a book for christmas
Probably this. As a child they need to learn not to believe in fairy tales.
>>7417107
best childhood book
Phantom Tollbooth
>>7417459
Came here to say this
>>7413264
>>7417410
"Children should be exposed to the harsh realities of life as early as possible"guess the source
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>>7413264
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Bonus points for early redpilling on the Jew.
>>7417132
He loves reading. I was thinking of buying him Farcry as well, he sort of asked for it. I just don't want him to grow up and suddenly not know what books to pick up like it happened to me.
Where else is he to start?
