chongjasmine
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Are there any classics that cater to children or young adults? Kindly recommend them.
Classic YA recommendations?
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i'm sorry you have to be more specific with the question.
in any case RAH has a lot of juvenil books if you want to read them.
That's robert ansom heinlein
Classics meaning older books, published before a certain date? (Like Narnia, for instance.)
Or in general, including 'new classics'? (Like The Hunger Games in YA.)
Or in general, including 'new classics'? (Like The Hunger Games in YA.)
i'm sorry but the hunger games are classics?? when did that happened? i mean narnia maybe but hunger games? you do know that is almost a modern take on a greek story right?
Hunger Games would be considered must-stock with most bookstores so it probably is a classic now. And Narnia undoubtedly is.
OP what type of book? Sff only or wider classics? YA, MG or very young books?
In terms of sff
Sf
Enders Game
Heinlein’s YA
Fantasy
Disc world
Harry Potter
Artemis Fowl
Percy Jackson
Alice in Wonderland
Narnia
The Hobbit
OP what type of book? Sff only or wider classics? YA, MG or very young books?
In terms of sff
Sf
Enders Game
Heinlein’s YA
Fantasy
Disc world
Harry Potter
Artemis Fowl
Percy Jackson
Alice in Wonderland
Narnia
The Hobbit
Exactly. Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson are examples of recent(ish) books/series that have become modern classics (in my opinion anyway).
yeah.... ok... look dr. seuss are classics. harry potter does have something of an appeal i guess. percy jackson is more on the fence and i already said my opinion on the hunger
This is the trouble. What we perceive as classics is individual. I can say, as a bookseller, that the same 10-15 books come up time and time again in the U.K. (not Dr Seuss) - like Anne of Green Gables, the secret garden, Alice, Peter Pan, treasure island, black beauty, Winnie the Pooh, Narnia - but that these are supplemented by hundreds of less well known ones like The Snow Goose, The Velveteen Rabbit, Pippi Longstocking, that are also classics. And then the US ones (the Outsiders, for instance) And the Chinese classics, and all across the world. Honestly the question is so broad it feels never ending
chongjasmine
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When I mean classics, I mean books like the secret garden, Alice, Peter Pan, treasure island, black beauty. The older classics.
if you google Wordsworth children’s classics you’ll find a huge range listed.
As well as those above, Little Women, The Little Prince, Charlotte‘s Web, Enid Blyton often comes up, any of the Grimm or Hans Anderson fairy tales.
Wind in the Willows.
the Railway Children
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Selfish Giant/Happy Prince
some Roald Dahl — Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Matilda, James and the Giant peach, The BFG
More modern writers like Shirley Hughes are also coming up as classics. Oh and Judith Kerr — The Tiger who came to tea, Mog. Possibly Julia Donaldson, The Gruffalo (but these are for the very young) and Guess How Much I Love You.
Older classics, I'd add Heidi and The Borrowers.
Haven't seen him mentioned in years. I remember doing There's No Escape as a class book at Primary school (and I was actually thinking of it in a recent discussion about whether a children's book needs a child protagonist). I remember finding it disturbing that the country it was set in remained unidentifiable. (It probably never occurred to me that someone could set a story in the real world but create a whole country!)
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