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Old 09-10-2013, 05:17 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by elemenoP View Post
In my experience, classics are a tough sell to a kid. Amazon offers kids books daily in the $1.99 range; once in a while you can find the high-profile series that kids love. You just have to keep looking every day. I never see those kinds of books going for free.
I don't know about that, I loved 'em as a kid. I read Treasure Island, Jules Verne books, old 1920 and 30s boys series books my father owned, must have read Swiss Family Robinson dozens of times. Penrod was another I liked that is now public domain.

Summers, I read a bunch of stories about the Greek gods, including the Odyssey, because my grandmother has this whole set of Greek mythology.

And then there was stuff like Kjelgaard's "Big Red", which I think can be found here on MR, or at least it was available.

Also, just because a library doesn't have kids ebooks, is no reason to count it out, paper books are fine for reading.
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