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About my libraryThis library contains my books (most of the general fiction plus all the dictionaries, language and history books). It also contains my husband's books (the sci-fi and computer books). Finally (but by no means any less importantly) it includes the rapidly-expanding library of our 5 year-old daughter and 3 year-old son.

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The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles) by Holly Black

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Asterix The Legionary by René Goscinny

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The Giants and the Joneses by Julia Donaldson

Me again!! ( I will stop in a minute I promise). I see you have The Gruffalo and several other books by Julia Donaldson. My daughter didn't like The Gruffalo - it scared her - but there is another Julia Donaldson/Axel Schaeffler called The Smartest Giant in Town - it is wonderful and when she was 3 or 4 I had to read that to her over and over and over again for several months.

posted by Sodapop at 8:38 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2009

OMG! I was looking at your kids books and just read this comment about But not the Hippopotamus:
"For some reason, I always used to sing this book to Rebecca rather than just read it as a rhyme. No idea why."
My husband always used to do it as a rap!!!!

posted by Sodapop at 8:26 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2009

My Mum came over the end of August with quite a bounty of books that I had requested including the Milly Molly Mandy one. My daughter loved it and I've had fun reading it to her. My daughter just turned six and I have 2 boys aged 13 and 8. This year I read (among others) the Little House series to my daughter and younger son and they really enjoyed those. (We started them last Christmas when we went to upstate NY and visited Almanzo's farm.)
I see you're a big Enid Blyton fan. My favourite Enid Blyton was Secret Island. I never read any of her books to my boys but thinking about it my 8 year old would probably really enjoy Secret Seven and Famous Five. My mum also brought Swallowdale (Arthur Ransome) which I just reread and he was very interested in that, so I think I might read him Swallows and Amazons next.
Don't know if you're familiar with Lynley Dodd's Hairy McClairy books but your 3 year old would probably love them.

posted by Sodapop at 8:15 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2009

I just wanted to say what a great review you wrote of Milly Molly Mandy. I LOVED the Milly Molly Mandy books when I was little - particularly the maps on the end pages :-) Based on your review I have now asked my Mum to try and find a Milly Molly Mandy book for my 5 year old daughter. Like you, I had previously thought that they wouldn't cross the the generation & culture gap too well but now I'm hopeful that they will. And if they don't? Oh well I'll enjoy rereading them.

posted by Sodapop at 11:24 am (EST) on Aug 14, 2009

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