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<blockquote data-quote="Dinkeldog" data-source="post: 401115" data-attributes="member: 195"><p>Dark! Yeah, that's the criterion I use when choosing books for my kids...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Of the ones mentioned here (a couple new ones added), the order (more or less) in which I read them:</p><p></p><p>The Phantom Tollbooth (age 7--I get free reign at a school library)</p><p>Peter Pan</p><p>Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of Nimh</p><p>Prydain Chronicles</p><p>Various Oz books</p><p>The Secret Garden</p><p>The Turn of the Screw</p><p>Mary Poppins, 2nd book also (Mary Poppins returns?)</p><p>a couple books of random fairy tales</p><p>Dark is Rising</p><p>anything I could find with Robin Hood</p><p>Wrinkle in Time series</p><p>La Morte d'Arthur (very heavy, I think I skipped Lancelot's book)</p><p>Once and Future King</p><p>The Hobbit. </p><p>The Chronicles of Narnia. </p><p>Lord of the Rings</p><p>tons of stuff that I can't remember any more. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>That was by the time I was 10, so I'd already been playing D&D for a couple years. The three that made the biggest impact on me were The Phantom Tollbooth, Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of Nimh and the Prydain Chronicles. After that I read everything in the school library and then the public library that involved fantasy settings at all. The librarians had to special order stuff, and it seemed by the time I was 10 that there was nothing else that they could dig up for me. (They recommended against La Morte, and afterward I agreed, so they gave me Once and Future King.)</p><p></p><p>I would probably add in the Belgariad now, but really only if I were reading with them. I'd definitely add Harry Potter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dinkeldog, post: 401115, member: 195"] Dark! Yeah, that's the criterion I use when choosing books for my kids...;) Of the ones mentioned here (a couple new ones added), the order (more or less) in which I read them: The Phantom Tollbooth (age 7--I get free reign at a school library) Peter Pan Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of Nimh Prydain Chronicles Various Oz books The Secret Garden The Turn of the Screw Mary Poppins, 2nd book also (Mary Poppins returns?) a couple books of random fairy tales Dark is Rising anything I could find with Robin Hood Wrinkle in Time series La Morte d'Arthur (very heavy, I think I skipped Lancelot's book) Once and Future King The Hobbit. The Chronicles of Narnia. Lord of the Rings tons of stuff that I can't remember any more. :) That was by the time I was 10, so I'd already been playing D&D for a couple years. The three that made the biggest impact on me were The Phantom Tollbooth, Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of Nimh and the Prydain Chronicles. After that I read everything in the school library and then the public library that involved fantasy settings at all. The librarians had to special order stuff, and it seemed by the time I was 10 that there was nothing else that they could dig up for me. (They recommended against La Morte, and afterward I agreed, so they gave me Once and Future King.) I would probably add in the Belgariad now, but really only if I were reading with them. I'd definitely add Harry Potter. [/QUOTE]
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