Recommended books from the HP haters

[Skimmel_98 at yahoo.com]

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No: HPFGUIDX C938
From: Skimmel_98
Subject: Recommended books from the HP haters
Date: 4/4/00 1:25 pm  (ET)

Just what do the HP haters recommend for school libraries? I copied the
list below from one their postings:

For "Younger Elementary"

Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen

Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Aesop's Fables

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling


for "Older Elementary"

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Hans Brinker by Mary M. Dodge

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graeme

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

Black Beauty by Anne Sewell

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
by Padraic Colum


I have nothing against any of these books. Some I like a lot. Some bored
me. I can easily see how I could turn the logic against Harry against
many of these as well. Especially Tom Sawyer.