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shmokes:
--- Quote from: Dervacumen on March 06, 2012, 11:52:15 am ---Barbara Park - Junie B. Jones series about a 1st grade girl.
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I read two of the Junie B. Jones stories recently. I sort of detested them. For one thing, I think the protagonist is a spoiled brat. She has a horrible attitude about everything. Page after page I'm thinking to myself, pretty much non-stop, "Oh god . . . please don't let Maddy get any ideas." Junie B. just an absolute spoiled rotten nightmare, nonstop. And the author bugs me with what I perceive to be constant little nods to the parent-readers, meant to have the parents chuckling to themselves about the silly way children interpret their world. Only . . . most of it doesn't seem authentic to me at all. It feels really contrived--not the least of which being Junie B.'s annoying speech patterns.
Moreover, it doesn't seem to me that Junie B. is the hero of her stories. Her bad attitude and dysfunctional behavior get her into messes and instead of having her, like, stop and think about the situation and overcome the conflicts, she just ends up being rescued by an adult or coincidence or something.
My daughter seemed to like them fine, though.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Rando on March 06, 2012, 12:52:41 pm ---Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass can be fun as they read/talk "funny".
Can also try "Coraline". My daughter (3) loves the movie which I thought could be a little scary, but the book could be good.
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My daughter (3) loved Coraline. My daughter (5--the same daughter, but two years later) is afraid to watch it. Lol.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Hoopz on March 06, 2012, 12:10:52 pm ---
Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor
Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner
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Maddy loves Fancy Nancy. We only have one Skippyjon Jones book, but it's a regular. And it's one of the few non-chapter books that I still regularly read (as opposed to my daughter reading to me) because I do voices for all the characters. When Maddy does read it, it's hilarious to hear her subtly try to do the same voices.
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 06, 2012, 11:17:02 am ---My daughter is five. I've graduated from reading the likes of Dr. Seuss to her (she reads him to me now) to what we call "chapter books". Anybody have some good suggestions? My first experiment with reading a chapter book to her was Charlotte's Web, and it couldn't have been a more resounding success. She followed the story from day to day, the language didn't pose a problem. She absolutely loved it. We've now finished almost the entire collection of Roald Dahl's books. I'm on The Great Glass Elevator now, then Fantastic Mr. Fox, then I'll be in the market for new books to read to her.
I was thinking of maybe checking out Tarzan and Robert Louis Stevenson's stuff . . . but it occurs to me that she might like something a bit more girlish. Plus, she's probably a bit too young still for Robert Louis Stevenson--lots of killing and the language may be too advanced/archaic for her to fully enjoy it. I've never read Tarzan, so I can't really speak to that.
Anyway, I'd love to hear some suggestions. The language doesn't have to be dumbed down too much. Like I said, she had no problem whatsoever with Charlotte's Web or even some of Dahl's more advanced books like Danny the Champion of the World and Matilda. On the other hand, I'm not going to try any Steinbeck on her.
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How did the ending of Charlottes web go over? It was super sad for me and I was sad for weeks.
DillonFoulds:
I'm impressed, sounds like you have a strong little reader. Someone mentioned Beverly Cleary, maybe you could also consider Judy Blume? She's a writer in the same vein as Beverly, but maybe more oriented towards boys. The "Fudge" series was a favourite of mine growing up.
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