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Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:28:15 2012 No.3023119 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: 10/10 Children's books

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:32:21 2012 No.3023130 Why would anyone read children's books? They don't have the elegant prose and vivid imagery that you find in things like The Great Gatsby. 0/10 OP try to troll harder next time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:33:41 2012 No.3023131 File: 141 KB, 1553x2253, Crash.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] YES OP. Jerry Spinelli > all. So many feels.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:34:42 2012 No.3023133 >>3023130 >implying nostalgia doesn't exist 2/10 got me to respond

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:35:44 2012 No.3023134 Any children's book written by Roald Dahl.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:38:18 2012 No.3023142 File: 30 KB, 266x408, The_Twits_first_edition.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3023134 What? Dude was a fucking sociopath. picrelated, one of few books where I felt bad for the bad guys.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:40:21 2012 No.3023148 File: 66 KB, 392x575, maniac magee.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OH MAN!!!! DAT BOOK!!! I'VE BEEN LOOKING ALL OVER FOR IT!!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:43:10 2012 No.3023154 >>3023142 his point is that being bad has consequences. that's a good lesson for children to learn.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:43:24 2012 No.3023152 File: 27 KB, 327x500, something wicked.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Somethign Wicked This Way Comes

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:44:41 2012 No.3023156 >>3023152 not a children's book

>>	1 Mon Oct 1 14:47:46 2012 No.3023162 Classic: The Count of Monte Cristo Treasure Island Gulliver's Travels Robinson Crusoe The Hobbit The Headless Horseman Modern: House of Scorpion

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:50:23 2012 No.3023167 >>3023162 Harold Lamb

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:51:55 2012 No.3023172 File: 21 KB, 300x300, fisher.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] my favourite

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:52:27 2012 No.3023174 Hans Christian Andersen's stories

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:53:43 2012 No.3023177 File: 27 KB, 258x400, 51F70X33G6L._SS500_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hey guys, remember this motherfucker?

>>	Guy Who Studies Economics !!936PyWPyAny Mon Oct 1 14:53:59 2012 No.3023178 File: 38 KB, 383x552, FC0807508527.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The way these kids dressed made me hate this book series. Fuck this book series.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:58:20 2012 No.3023194 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_magazine

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 14:59:06 2012 No.3023195 >>3023162 The Count of Monte Cristo is children's literature?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 15:06:26 2012 No.3023216 File: 20 KB, 298x475, lastdon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I read this when I was 9 or 10. I read the part where the rich hotel owner sleeps with two prostitutes but beats one of them up because shes touched his haemorraoids about 5 times

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 15:06:42 2012 No.3023219 >>3023131 wow I loved this book

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 15:37:37 2012 No.3023284 File: 17 KB, 193x300, silver crown.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 15:39:41 2012 No.3023289 >>3023156 >my nine year old is loving it

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 15:44:12 2012 No.3023302 File: 19 KB, 200x339, 200px-Hatchet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 15:52:26 2012 No.3023315 File: 35 KB, 292x475, monkysummer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Loved this book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 15:54:29 2012 No.3023322 File: 221 KB, 988x1600, dark is rising.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] SUSAN COOPER ALL IN THIS MOTHERFUCKAAAAAA

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 15:54:29 2012 No.3023321 File: 32 KB, 328x500, the sirens of titan.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 15:55:02 2012 No.3023328 File: 41 KB, 240x400, redwall.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Any of the redwall books

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 15:56:17 2012 No.3023329 File: 23 KB, 200x311, 200px-DanielQuinn_Ishmael.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Loved this book (sequels suck though).

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 15:57:20 2012 No.3023330 File: 19 KB, 246x400, fisher350side_ebay2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Famous Five 4 lyfe niggaz.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 15:58:24 2012 No.3023333 File: 133 KB, 500x375, baby-jest1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 16:31:57 2012 No.3023387 File: 87 KB, 346x512, Book of Three.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The gold standard for children's high fantasy >>3023322 brofist

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 19:25:30 2012 No.3023719 File: 63 KB, 318x475, 205721.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 19:26:02 2012 No.3023723 File: 61 KB, 450x354, grey king silver on tree.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3023721

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 19:26:16 2012 No.3023721 File: 83 KB, 400x615, greenwitch.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3023387 found some more pics. these first editions have the coolest artwork. the site I found them on had a full first ed set for $7,500 (!) lotta dough for kids paperbacks..

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 19:26:32 2012 No.3023722 File: 64 KB, 272x400, 776896.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 19:27:18 2012 No.3023724 File: 38 KB, 420x602, nocoins.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 19:29:24 2012 No.3023731 File: 22 KB, 420x544, joeplace.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Great author, many works.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 19:30:57 2012 No.3023734 File: 41 KB, 317x475, 146499.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 19:33:31 2012 No.3023739 File: 41 KB, 352x475, TaleOfDespereaux.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I read this in 4th grade and was in love. It was a gift from my mom's friend who was a teacher. 10/10.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 19:43:10 2012 No.3023758 >>3023130 lel

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 19:52:15 2012 No.3023780 Encyclopedia Brown

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 19:58:56 2012 No.3023798 Alice The Wind in the Willows

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 20:19:42 2012 No.3023844 File: 99 KB, 501x867, horseskeleton.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You uncultured swine, forgetting the most important kid's books ever. Pic. Fucking. Related.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 20:29:45 2012 No.3023857 File: 34 KB, 263x420, scarystories.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3023844 Those books were A+. I still occasionally hear severed heads falling down my fireplace.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 20:33:24 2012 No.3023865 File: 47 KB, 340x500, phantom.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] GOAT

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 20:34:58 2012 No.3023868 I remember liking the Time Warp Trio books as a kid because my second grade teacher would occasionally read them to us, but I wouldn't consider them 10/10 books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 21:52:09 2012 No.3024014 File: 96 KB, 340x501, HarrietSpy1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3023865 yep my very close runners-up are pic related and the wayside schooliverse

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 21:54:42 2012 No.3024017 File: 262 KB, 475x385, btt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 22:09:24 2012 No.3024039 File: 2.31 MB, 1005x1270, miraculous journey.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3023739 Reminded me of this one by the same author. Another really good one, made me cry bitch tears every other chapter...

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 1 22:16:07 2012 No.3024050 File: 19 KB, 300x300, 51wyL7LcXwL._SL500_AA300_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]