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    #193239 - 06/03/14 08:14 AM Re: Book recommendations: age 6-8 [Re: Mark D.]
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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
    The Penderwicks (series)--Jeanne Birdsall

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    #193240 - 06/03/14 08:38 AM Re: Book recommendations: age 6-8 [Re: Mark D.]
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    Horrible Science series
    Toys Go Out series
    Cuthbert Soup "Another Whole Story" series
    Asterix comics
    Calvin and Hobbes comics
    the Dick King-Smith books
    E.B. White "Trumpet of the Swan"

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    #193247 - 06/03/14 09:30 AM Re: Book recommendations: age 6-8 [Re: Mark D.]
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    The Girl Who Could Fly - Victoria Forester (a favorite!)
    The Sisters Grimm series - Michael Buckley

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    #193287 - 06/03/14 12:04 PM Re: Book recommendations: age 6-8 [Re: Mark D.]
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    How about Phantom Tollbooth and Wizard of Oz series

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    #193347 - 06/04/14 07:34 AM Re: Book recommendations: age 6-8 [Re: Mark D.]
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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
    Little House on the Prairie series (books 1-5)- Laura Ingalls Wilder

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    #193386 - 06/04/14 09:52 AM Re: Book recommendations: age 6-8 [Re: Mark D.]
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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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    #193605 - 06/05/14 07:38 PM Re: Book recommendations: age 6-8 [Re: Mark D.]
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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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    #194325 - 06/12/14 03:46 PM Re: Book recommendations: age 6-8 [Re: Mark D.]
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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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    #194326 - 06/12/14 03:56 PM Re: Book recommendations: age 6-8 [Re: Mark D.]
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    Theo Gray's The Elements and Mad Science
    Muse magazine

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    #194335 - 06/12/14 06:56 PM Re: Book recommendations: age 6-8 [Re: Mark D.]
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    The Saturdays (first of the Melendy series) - Elizabeth Enright

    Gone-Away Lake (and Return to Gone-Away) - Elizabeth Enright

    The Borrowers (series) - Mary Norton

    Betsy-Tacy (series) - Maud Lovelace

    "B" is for Betsy (series) - Carolyn Haywood

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