[HPFGU-OTChatter] Book list

[Tim Regan]

Hi All,

Shaun asked:
>>> I've spent the last few days cataloguing my 'teaching collection' of children's books and I have put up a list at http://www.alphalink.com.au/~drednort/bookindex.html [...] if you can think of a book that you think should be on it, that isn't, please let me know <<<

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (especially because of the amazing Miyazaki version)
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (spelling?)
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (adapted for the screen by our man Alfonso Cuarón)
The rest of the Philip Pullman books

The Arthur Ransome books are dated, but none the less important.

You don't mention the age range? But you might want to include some holocaust stuff, e.g.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
(Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson is a great 'retelling' of Frank's diary)
Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History 
Maus II : A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman are great graphical novels on the holocaust. Well sort of on the holocaust, really on a man's relationship with his father and the memory of his mother. But they would not work for young kids at all.

What about poetry?

Cheers,

Dumbledad.

PS Glad you've got "The Magic Pudding" in there. What a great book.