[House] Books to read to kids.

[Robin Lee Powell]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 03:27:15PM -0700, J Davis wrote:
> Wow, I disagree with some of them..._Ender's Game_? Really? I haven't
> read that and I'm scared to_! The Hobbit_ MAYBE but _LoTR_ before
> 10??? Only if the child wishes IMO.

I didn't mean to imply I'd actually read the list.  :)  I love
Ender's Game, but if I was reading it to a child below a certain
level of worldly-ness, I'd *certainly* skip parts; the shower scene
in which Ender (accidentally) kills another child comes to mind
instantly.  It's quite dark.

LotR is just boring.  :)  But if the child's seen the movies and
wants the book, I'd have no problem with it; I don't find LotR
particularily dark or hard to handle.  I read it around 9, myself,
and I don't recall having any trouble, except that it was boring and
I thought that meant there was something wrong with *me*.

Having said all that, I read Thomas Covenant (without anyone
knowing, IIRC) at around 10 and I survived.  Mostly it just came
across as boring because it was all this whining about shit I didn't
care about like mortality and despair.

> There are definitely some I think are left off; I'll have to poke
> around and find them if we want a list. (Or else it will just come
> up.) _Podkayne of Mars_ (Heinlein) and _Way Station_ (Simak) leap
> to mind, as do the _Little House on the Prairie_ books.

Cool!

I don't think we need any kind of official list, I just thought it
might be nice some day should we ever get to the "Well I want to
read something with X but I'm out of ideas" point.  LOL.

-Robin

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