Hehehe... when I was nine I read the Hobbit, which was fine, but then I picked up my 19yo brother's copy of the Harvard Lampoon parody Bored of the Rings... A lot of the (really obvious) innuendo went right over my head, thank goodness!

I've had really good luck with older books... and especially older British books, although they need discussing (colonialism/racism, antisemitism and sexism issues in particular, but also the subtleties of communication that are part and parcel of a fairly rigid social structure...) DS is currently reading some of my favorite Dorothy Sayers mysteries.

Erica