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    Rabbit Hill--Robert Lawson
    Green Knowe series--L. M. Boston
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--Lewis Carroll
    To Catch a Mermaid (and others)--Suzanne Selfors
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    The Girl Who Could Fly - Victoria Forester (a favorite!)
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    How about Phantom Tollbooth and Wizard of Oz series

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    The Familiars series (my son could not get enough!)--Adam Jay Epstein
    All EB White books-- Charlotte's Web, Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little
    The Cricket in Times Square-George Seldon
    Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM-Robert C. O'Brien
    My Father's Dragon series--Ruth Stiles Gannett
    Roald Dahl books--James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    The Borrowers--Mary Norton
    The Humphrey series--Betty G. Birney
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    I know that the list is long, but please try to avoid duplicating what's already there when making your suggestions. Thanks!

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    OK, I think I am now up to date on all of the suggestions. Let me know if you see any errors or omissions.

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    Treasure Island. Unlike other Classics Children Ought to Read -- Robinson Crusoe (written before the idea of a novel as a coherent narrative), Swiss Family Robinson (written for moral edification) -- this is actually a really good book!

    DD6 was intensely interested, not at all put off by the difficulty level (though with lots of explanations from me, both of vocabulary and historical context). But she got pretty freaked out by how scary it was. She had been asking for books with "wicked" characters, but this was a little too rich for her blood. Unlike their rather sanitized Disney descendants, these pirates are freaky nasty scary.

    DD's evaluation: "Let's read this when I'm older." May work for some in this age group, maybe even DD by the time she's 8.

    (P.S. As a less scary substitute for her blood-thirstiness, I've been reading her the Tintin adventures The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure.)

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    The Saturdays (first of the Melendy series) - Elizabeth Enright

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    The Borrowers (series) - Mary Norton

    Betsy-Tacy (series) - Maud Lovelace

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