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Originally Posted by tmdiva
My third-grader recently read and really enjoyed the Hank Zipzer series by Henry Winkler. It has 14 volumes! Which means it's better than most other series. We recently finished Deathly Hallows (we read the whole thing aloud, starting a couple of years ago, and taking a sizable break after PoA).
Our current bedtime reading is A Series of Unfortunate Events, which not only has 13 volumes (yay!), is pretty clever to boot, with references and asides and clues to keep everyone on their toes. I just bought the two small Lemony Snicket Christmas books, one (about the coal) for Magnus and one (about the latke) for Thor's preschool teacher (we're not MOT, but he attends preschool at an orthodox synagogue).
I also am interested in recs for girls that age. My niece who's now 10 has a much greater appetite for fantasy (Artemis Fowl, etc.) than the one who's going on 8.
tm
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Someone gave me an illustrated Canterbury Tales when I was a kid. The stories were dumbed down a little to an 8 to 10 reading level, but they were generally the same plots as whatever is in the Penguin translation. I LOVED that book. It wasn't, in my opinion as a kid, a boring classic to be studied in school, but a collection of really funny, really good stories.
It was
this version.
The adapter also has done
A Thousand and One Arabian Nights,
The Odyssey, and
Gilgamesh. The illustrator has done
Don Quixote,
The Iliad, and
Favorite Tales of Shakespeare (which, based on the picture, I also had, but it's out of print.)
I also had
D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths, which I loved, loved, loved as a child.
