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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

      5. Make Way for Ducklings The tragic story of a family of ducks who are forced by circumstance to live in Boston, where local police racially profile thempic.twitter.com/3f9dVG3Ap8

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

      6. Beatrix Potter (various) Stories about anthropomorphic Victorian animals, lovingly illustrated Samuel Whiskers (last photo) terrified mepic.twitter.com/rwQYEzqYFg

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

      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

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

      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

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

      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

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

      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

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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

      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

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

      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

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    9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

      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

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    10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

      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

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

      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

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

          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

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

          17. Pickles the Fire Cat a somber Diogenetic reflection on virtue, wrath, remorse, and repentencepic.twitter.com/hqydn6v8IK

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        4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

          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

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        5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 27 Jul 2020

          Ok I need to work for a while but this thread is far from over F a r from over

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        6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Jul 2020

          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

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        7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Jul 2020

          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

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        8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Jul 2020

          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

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        9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Jul 2020

          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

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        10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Jul 2020

          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

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        11. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Jul 2020

          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

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        12. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 28 Jul 2020

          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

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        13. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Jul 2020

          got some packagespic.twitter.com/sWad3w2Uor

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        14. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Jul 2020

          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

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        15. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Jul 2020

          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

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        16. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Jul 2020

          28. Frederick There are many good ways to live. Frederick shows one of them.pic.twitter.com/aKjgZJQlui

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        17. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Jul 2020

          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

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        18. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Jul 2020

          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

          2 replies 1 retweet 24 likes
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        19. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Jul 2020

          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

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        20. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Jul 2020

          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

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        21. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Jul 2020

          eigenrobot Retweeted ☉rthonormalist

          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 …

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          ☉rthonormalist @orthonormalist
          Replying to @random_scrub @eigenrobot
          Great Books Academy curriculum
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        22. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Jul 2020

          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

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        23. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Jul 2020

          35. The Rainbow Goblins Another mutual's recommendation although @selentelechia remembers it from her childhood A tale of wickedness, gluttony, and hubris Sumptuously illustrated by an Italian Count, painting oil on oakpic.twitter.com/o4KQnAw1rA

          4 replies 0 retweets 28 likes
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        24. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Jul 2020

          36. Rapunzel I wonder what it was like to publish stories about heteronormative families with uncomplicated love for one another in the late 20th century. Especially as Hyman herself was divorced, with a child; she may have been gay. What was she looking for in her art?pic.twitter.com/eU85Yy1o5h

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        25. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Jul 2020

          37. Calvin and Hobbes Extremely good to read as a parent or as a kid or just generally. The complete collection is very nice but heavy for small hands. I used to babysit a bright two year old named Phinneas who identified with Calvin intensely. He made his own transmogrifier.pic.twitter.com/ujo4U3BXB1

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        26. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 30 Jul 2020

          38. Swimmy A children's introduction to ecobolshevism, ethereally illustratedpic.twitter.com/8zA6es7Wdv

          2 replies 1 retweet 24 likes
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        27. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 30 Jul 2020

          39. Strega Nona A good introduction to the multifarious dangers of witchcraft, and the corruption of even the clergy by that black art. Excellent preparatory material for a future scholar of Malleus Maleficarumpic.twitter.com/eMp3W4U067

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        28. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 30 Jul 2020

          40. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Stories are not actually scary. Appropriate for ages 0-3.pic.twitter.com/2Mg3tPZB4z

          4 replies 0 retweets 23 likes
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        29. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 30 Jul 2020

          eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

          addendumhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1289018418062962688?s=19 …

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          eigenrobot @eigenrobot
          Replying to @Neil_Jetter
          oh right the _illustrations_ are nightmare fuel should have mentioned that
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        30. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 30 Jul 2020

          41. Where The Wild Things Are Monarchoprimitivist Calvin and Hobbespic.twitter.com/v9J6hVQ4qk

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        31. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 30 Jul 2020

          42. Corduroy Every think about how corduroy is probably actually a terrible fabric for a stuffed animal of any varietypic.twitter.com/8idYcX6Jt2

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