[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Books your kids like most
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       Ask HN: Books your kids like most
        
       I was thinking that a good way, perhaps, to get my kid (4) more
       interested in books would be to read him books with interesting
       characters, in a way that can perhaps rival the TV and YT junk.
       Rival not in the sense of screen-time but brain time - the time his
       brain spends processing and imagining those characters which
       provide very little value.
        
       Author : rudasn
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2023-02-02 22:39 UTC (23 minutes ago)
        
       | deckiedan wrote:
       | 2 kids, 8 and 5. Find stuff you'll enjoy reading to them. And
       | read to them a lot. You've got the right idea.
       | 
       | MO Williams books are great for that age. The elephant and piggie
       | books are fun, Annette's Baguette is brilliant. The Brambly Hedge
       | books are lovely. Dr Seuss is mostly quite fun. Peter's railway
       | (if they like trains or engineering at all), the Thomas the Tank
       | engine books, the topsy and Tim books are ok...
       | 
       | But get lots of books from the library, charity / thrift stores.
       | Get lots of books to try out, and have available for them to
       | read. And if they aren't interested, you can always thrift them
       | again.
       | 
       | For slightly older kids, we've really enjoyed reading Hillary
       | McKay, Terry Pratchett's kids books / short stories, Vivian
       | French's books are great. and some of the classics are great too
       | - EE Milne, the Paddington books...
        
       | danbolt wrote:
       | I can't speak in general, but I've noticed that the kids that get
       | most attached to reading at a young age often are the ones that
       | have parents take them to public libraries as an outing. Bonus
       | points in that it counts as quality time with the child.
       | 
       | Or, even though they often watched the typical junk stuff too,
       | they started (slowly, and sometimes retroactively) applying
       | literary thinking to that as well, and it helped them develop
       | their taste and thinking skills.
        
       | silverwasthere wrote:
       | When my son was around that age he liked Daniel Tiger books. Then
       | Pete the Cat. Catstronauts.
       | 
       | Looking at what I just wrote I should probably get him more cat
       | books.
        
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