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Old 09-05-2020, 12:19 PM   #136
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My almost nine year old daughter loves our Asterix and Obelix series. She also enjoys the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne.
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Old 09-06-2020, 01:55 AM   #137
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Have you come accross the books of Enid Blyton?

DEfinitely not scary and there are loads of them.

They were a children.s staple in the 1950's and are still very popular today.
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Old 09-06-2020, 02:43 AM   #138
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Have you come accross the books of Enid Blyton?

DEfinitely not scary and there are loads of them.

They were a children.s staple in the 1950's and are still very popular today.
They can be considered problematic today, so I'd head over to FadedPage and check them out there first. Basically, they're very whitebread - often set in pre-war middle class Britain. While there's no overt racism I recall, the bad guys are usually 'other'.
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Old 09-06-2020, 03:59 AM   #139
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They can be considered problematic today, so I'd head over to FadedPage and check them out there first. Basically, they're very whitebread - often set in pre-war middle class Britain. While there's no overt racism I recall, the bad guys are usually 'other'.
The racism and xenophobia may not have been explicit, but it was just barely implicit - VERY well lampooned in parodies like "Five Go Mad in Dorset"
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Old 09-06-2020, 05:07 AM   #140
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The racism and xenophobia may not have been explicit, but it was just barely implicit
I've read one Blyton, "Island of Adventure". There's one Black character, and if you had a bingo card with racist stereotypes you'd have yelled "Bingo" before finishing the first chapter he appears in.

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VERY well lampooned in parodies like "Five Go Mad in Dorset"
I remember seeing that one, hilarious!
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The racism and xenophobia may not have been explicit, but it was just barely implicit - VERY well lampooned in parodies like "Five Go Mad in Dorset"
Another issue with these books is the class snobbery.
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Old 09-06-2020, 11:40 AM   #142
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Does anyone else here remember Walter R. Brooks and the Freddy the Pig books? One of my co-workers says that she picked up a couple of them for her 8 year old daughter but was appalled by the racism in them. My memories are rather vague since I read them decades back but I don't remember any racism, speciesism perhaps.
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Old 09-06-2020, 09:42 PM   #143
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Another issue with these books is the class snobbery.
I saw a great quote about historical figures, which likely applies to fiction written in a previous eras - "You are a tourist visiting the past, don't act like the ugly American mad because they don't have McDonalds."
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I saw a great quote about historical figures, which likely applies to fiction written in a previous eras - "You are a tourist visiting the past, don't act like the ugly American mad because they don't have McDonalds."
Nice one. Well put.
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Old 10-07-2020, 09:35 AM   #145
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Hi there. I am a big fan of Harry Potter and I think lots of people can say that it can be a classic.
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Old 10-08-2020, 11:40 AM   #146
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If your niece likes horses at all then the Saddle Club books might be a hit? I devoured them as a child. There's horses, mystery, adventure, friendship.

As for if Potter will be a Classic or not... they're fine books but I think it's too early to say. Many books loved by one generation are forgotten a few generations down the line even if they were great in their heyday and got people reading.
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My almost nine year old daughter loves our Asterix and Obelix series. She also enjoys the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne.
The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton might suit her. I tried it and was surprised at how creative it is.
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There are also the "classics": Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys.
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As a child, I loved Blyton and others, but one book which always stayed in my mind was The Silver Sword. I think I was maybe 9 or 10 when I read it. Loved it.
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the...-9780141362649
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As a child, I loved Blyton and others, but one book which always stayed in my mind was The Silver Sword. I think I was maybe 9 or 10 when I read it. Loved it.
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the...-9780141362649
I remember watching the television serialization of it as a child. on UK television Unfortunately for whatever reason I missed the last few episodes.
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