[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: 30 Must Read Books for Kids

[Laurin York]

Not sure who said this (accidentally erased it):

> > I haven't heard of many of the books on that
> list. Are they predominantly by American authors?
> 
> I think most of them are, yes.  And they were for
> much younger kids than I'd thought they would be -- 
> they're mostly picture books.  (And I think I have 
> read most of them.)  These books aren't in the same 
> age group with Harry Potter, really.

I was interested to see that my nieces and nephews own
or have read 20 out of the 30.  (Although they grew
out of these books by the age of 5.)  And while most
of them do seem to be American, I seem to remember
some of my favorite books being British: Peter Pan,
Winne the Pooh, The Secret Garden, The Little
Princess, The Borrowers, Bedknob and Broomstick (oh,
anything by Mary Norton!).  

I also read just about anything about witches, magic
or time travel.  (Nothing has changed there.) I
especially liked the Witch Family by Eleanor Estes, A
Wrinkle in Time and sequals by Madeleine L'Engle, and
I STILL like to reread the Jane Langton books about
the Hall family: The Diamond in the Window, The Swing
in the Summerhouse, The Amazing Stereoscope, The
Fledgling...

In fact, I have wondered whether JKR had read the
Diamond in the Window and got her idea for the Mirror
of Erised from that...Read it and see what you think!


--Laurin

(who will use any excuse to get people to read JKR or
Jane Langton)



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