guardian top 10 (fluffy challenge)
Damien threw down the gauntlet to build your fluffy links… I came up with this, all fromThe Guardian’s Top Ten Series:
- Julia Golding’s top 10 characters from children’s historical fiction
- David Almond’s top 10 children’s books
- Georgia Byng’s top 10 books to feed the imagination
- Cornelia Funke’s top 10 bedtime stories
- Rob Grant’s top 10 comic science fiction novels
- Jacqueline Wilson’s top 10 children’s books
And while trekking through the guardian site I found two more articles on recommended reading for younger readers – For children 0-3 and For children 4 – 7 year olds.
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Hi David! It’s me Donal- jess’s friend! She never told me you were a filthy blogger!
Thanks for the children’s books link, I am always looking for new tips for my girls.
@ Donal – Hey! Jess said you had a blog but I never found it! Huzzah – congrats on the bloggie news!
@ Aidan How old are they? Happy to email some must reads
Hi David,
We have three aged girls aged 4, 3 and 3 months. We have practically everything by Julia Donaldson, Mini Grey, Emily Gravett and Giles Andreae. Up until now I used the nominations for the Nestle awards as the main source of good picks. The problem is finding books at a slightly higher level than Biscuit Bear. For my oldest daughter I think that Julia Donaldson’s Charlie Cook is at the top of her level and I would love any tips you have for books that have a bit more too them without being aimed at 6-7 year olds. Thanks in advance,
Aidan
Aidan, no problem. I’m a picturebook fiend so I’ll stick with those… At the minute I’m loving Mo Willem’s ‘Knuffle Bunny’, ‘Pigeon’ and ‘Elephant and Piggie’ books. Chris Riddell’s Wendel’s Workshop is great too.
Polly Dunbar has some great books too (’Penguin’ is brilliant!) – and a new series coming out soon. And if you haven’t yet, take a look at Oliver Jeffers’ books. Annie West’s first book ‘Moxie the Underdog’ is out too (Might be a bit too old yet though.)
Hope that gets you started
Thanks very much for those tips, I had not heard of Mo Willem or Annie West, we do have ‘The Kiss That Missed’ by Chris Riddell but I hadn’t heard of that other one.
We already have ‘Penguin’ and everything by Oliver Jeffers (I love his stuff).
We already have a lot of books because our kids are growing up as trilinguals so we read as much as we can to support our own languages (English/Polish). My wife has bought tonnes of books too.
Wow – Now I’m very jealous. Would love to read some of the Polish books.
Polly has a few great books other than Penguin – ‘Dog Blue’, ‘Shoe Baby’ and all of the Tilly and Friends books are great. Let me know what you think of Mo Willems (check out his blog too)
There are some really interesting children’s books in Polish. The most famous writere is Jan Brzechwa, every Polish kids can recite some of his verses. I try to encourage my wife not to buy translations because most of the books are originally in English and in translation the quality varies and anyway I want them to hear Polish voices.
There are also many Dutch children’s writers some of whom are translated to English like Annie J. Schmidt or Miffy (Nijntje). Again I try to read original Dutch books to them where possible.
I will definitely check out those books and let you know if they are well received.
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