Ok by popular demand and also because it is my current Mania, a thread of cool children's books in no particular order I shall expand as more arrive (more, will Arrive)https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1287814990167072768 …
-
-
7. The Story About Ping A dry treatise on the animal husbandry practices of the Han people of the Yangtze basin during the late Qing Dynasty, I don't know why this is marketed to childrenpic.twitter.com/i3c5Dc0wq9
Show this thread -
8. The Clown of God The story of a young boy in Sorrento with a gift. It's an introduction to ageing and death and it is acheingly beautiful. Catholics beware this is a work of blatant Franciscan propagandapic.twitter.com/T4v9OGFXXQ
Show this thread -
9. Russian Fairy Tales I have no idea who wrote this and it doesn't matter because it was illustrated by Ivan Bilibin and I could look at his work all day Russian stories are spooky af and kids love scary stuffpic.twitter.com/hN3a2n3iG1
Show this thread -
10. Stone Soup Superficially a whimsical tale of three buddies running a friendly scam on a group of villagers, Stone Soup also teaches children about how they too can grow up to eat at the trough of the Military-Industrial Complexpic.twitter.com/DFNqVLG8IS
Show this thread -
11. Go Dog Go This book is incredibly stupid 64 pages of this crap I remember liking it but on a second pass I may burn this before my kids take a liking to it and I have to read it every night I regret everything about this bookpic.twitter.com/P56LZ71Pr7
Show this thread -
12. Magic School Bus books Ok I'm less angry now. The Magic School Bus books are fun and a compelling-for-a-child explanations about stuff like anatomy and earth science Also Arthur, dear put-upon Arthur Wonder how much of this stuff failed to replicatepic.twitter.com/mhJMjK5QtT
Show this thread -
13. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Although it is a story of the industrial age, its themes are eternal You can read this book to your child while you hold back tears thinking about how GPT-5 has rendered your labor entirely without valuepic.twitter.com/yad3jkur4r
Show this thread -
14. Look Out For Pirates! Out of print and hard to find, a rollicking adventure story about a group of sea-boys besting a group of Pirates, stealing their treasure, and pulling a Wickerman (Nic Cage) on the pirate crewpic.twitter.com/CFTIwe47ez
Show this thread -
15. YOU WILL GO TO THE MOON First published in 1959, this book has led to deep cynicism about the rate of technological advances in several generations of children No Virginia you will not go to the fucking Moonpic.twitter.com/pea9aUJ7wn
Show this thread -
16. Wombat Stew A companion story to Stone Soup, involving more soup, more rampaging violations of the NAP, and more pranking It's fine. Mostly have for nostalgia.pic.twitter.com/hIE04RtnBJ
Show this thread -
17. Pickles the Fire Cat a somber Diogenetic reflection on virtue, wrath, remorse, and repentencepic.twitter.com/hqydn6v8IK
Show this thread -
18. The Velveteen Rabbit This one is actually extremely good and beautiful and I don't think I can actually remember the details of the story and I'm not going to reread it now because I'm not in a mood to sob uncontrollablypic.twitter.com/wYUvovTi0v
Show this thread -
Ok I need to work for a while but this thread is far from over F a r from over
Show this thread -
19. Love You Forever I liked this book as a child (I don't think my parents read it to me) and it made me appreciate their love for me in a very real way. I also learned about growing up, maybe. I will not be getting it for my kids because it turns out it is heartbreakingpic.twitter.com/QwloJZJtCp
Show this thread -
20. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom One of the dumber ways to introduce kids to the alphabet but its got a good beat and you can dance to itpic.twitter.com/AuhHNugyUI
Show this thread -
21. The Runaway Bunny A cute book about motherly love for an age when kids aren't really ready to be aggressively independentpic.twitter.com/180hEBPYts
Show this thread -
22. The Paper Bag Princess A book that teaches girls about the importance of being brave and clever and not tolerating bums And boys to appreciate brave and clever girls, and to not be bumspic.twitter.com/NcNsJtPEHv
Show this thread -
23. Saint George and the Dragon The author adapted /Spencer/ for kids and Hyman illustrated down to marginalia. We shall see her work again. Kegan 3 is important for kids because good things are, Good and this book is an embodiment of this precept. A thing of beauty.pic.twitter.com/agcysFdTmm
Show this thread -
24. Bilbo's Last Song It turns out that you can never introduce Tolkein too early. I only learned of this a week ago, and wasn't sure what I would get; I rather like it! A lovely poem, a nocturne, an elegy. Sleep well, kiddo, and dream of Amanpic.twitter.com/0MhS9vvgdu
Show this thread -
25. The Little Prince Written by war hero Antoine de Saint-Exupery, needing no introduction, of course you must have known this book would make the list and everyone should read it BUT Did you /also/ know that some magnificent bastard made an unabridged pop-up version?pic.twitter.com/oedKYhCXv6
Show this thread -
-
26. The Kitchen Knight This is another Hodge/Hyman collaboration, this time retelling part of the story of Gareth from the Matter of England Another entry in my Good Things are Good early childhood curriculum, upon which I shall expound going forwardpic.twitter.com/CWrjGSdG5K
Show this thread -
27. East of the Sun, West of the Moon Norse folk tales.
@orthonormalist has a fantastic reading list somewhere--preparation for a great books curriculum, but for kids. I understand it's full of folk tales. This is not a mistake. Children's books should be beautiful.pic.twitter.com/KWDQHK1DKt
Show this thread -
28. Frederick There are many good ways to live. Frederick shows one of them.pic.twitter.com/aKjgZJQlui
Show this thread -
29. Babar My parents took me to a children's theater production of Babar when I was six. The narrator was introducing the Elephant King with a series of astounded questions--"Who could this be?" I shouted "It's Babar, silly!" and he graciously granted me, "Yes, it's Babar."pic.twitter.com/nj3kFroTsr
Show this thread -
30. Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins I don't know whether this was a popular Jewish story before it was published in _Cricket_ but by the time I was nine even my semirural Catholic school had a copypic.twitter.com/3WAXpZECkz
Show this thread -
32. Little Red Riding Hood Of course everyone knows this story, but everyone must also hear it for the first time. A problem with many stories is that they are written for the entertainment of a jaded reader, rather than for a naive child. Modern Disney movies exemplify this.pic.twitter.com/XUD5wY1eqf
Show this thread -
33. The Stinky Cheese Man This book is a distillation of the phenomenon I mentioned above. It is nonsensical without a familiarity of the base material; it is an attaqq on decency and aesthetics; it is concentrated irony poisoning. It is however reasonably funny.pic.twitter.com/C6ZlHzRd7h
Show this thread -
31. Oops I missed it Here's the name of the list I mentioned, haven't found a direct link Thanks buddy!https://twitter.com/orthonormalist/status/1288647840189698048?s=19 …
Show this thread -
34. The Little Old Man Who Could Not Read Recommended by a mutual, this is the story of a sweet old man and his incredibly long-suffering wife. I suspect there is much empathy for illiterate kids here.pic.twitter.com/nz4rIDw9S4
Show this thread - Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
