So, I'm babysitting my 8 year old cousin.
Being the introvert that I am, the only thing I can actually do with him is read for him, and he being dyslexic he enjoys it a lot. But I'm running ou of books, so help me anons!
The ones I have read:
Little Women
The Secret Garden
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland & Through the looking glass
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Is he too young for Harry Potter, Narnia and Brums of Avalon? Also, he says my choices are ''too girly'', so any help with that?
Other children's classics that I'm not remembering, please.
Does he like dogs?
Read him Where the Red Fern Grows
harry potter sounds about right
>>7516222
As much as any child. Thank you, anon! It looks cool, putting on the list.
Do the Chronicles of Prydain series. Very old-school, King Arthur-type adventure novels.
>>7516215
read lolita to him
>>7516215
Treasure Island
Arabian Nights
Gulliver Travels
>>7516215
>gulliver's travels
>heart of darkness
>of mice and men
>watership down
>the road
>the wind in the willows
>zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
>rosemary's baby
>mössbauer effect in lattice dynamics: experimental techniques and applications
>>7516226
I'm really not sure about it. I should reread the series before coming to a conclusion but it's rally not of my liking.
>>7516236
Noted. It looks good and not ''girly''.
>>7516239
Only if you do it to me first ;*
>>7516242
Also noted. Is Treasure Island like Robinson Crusoé? God, I loved it when I as a kid.
What you anons think about 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'?
Wizard of Earthsea
>>7516272
A Series of Unfortunate Events may appeal to children, but be warned: it contains dangerously high amounts of edge and "le so random XD" humour.
hatchet series by gary paulsen
>>7516215
Roald Dahl
I second Arabian nights, I heard Wilde wrote some pretty cool fables too but not sure if they match his age
>>7518196
Yeah Roald Dahl
Read him Danny the Champion of the World. Was my fave growing up.
>>7518196
Wilde did fables/short stories that would work well for children, but at 8, I think he may actually be too old for some of them. Something like The Happy Prince is what I'm thinking of.
>>7516594
Here is a man who did not understand what he was looking at.
>>7516215
hesiod
