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Originally Posted by issybird
This ties in with a given for me; I can only enjoy children’s books if I’m reading them with a child. I started them with a six-year old nephew in 1999; we caught up and read The Prisoner of Azkaban when it came out that year and kept up with them after that. He still loves the series, but annoys his friends because he brings a very critical eye to the story, the characterizations, the discontinuities and so forth, which were fodder for our discussions of the texts when he was a kid. I might not have been the ideal reading companion.
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OTOH there are children's books that are perfectly enjoyable by adults and don't feel particularly childish. The Hobbit, for example. Also one of my childhood favorites, Krabat by Otfried Preussler (ok, that one was probably meant for teenagers, but still). The Mowgli stories (no idea if Kipling wrote them for children initially or not, but they're usually classified as such nowadays).