Okay, I have to write an essay for English over the summer about how children's literature rocks the socks off of adult books. But I can't think of that many children's classics that I can use. (My English teacher won't let me use modern authors because he won't have read them and can't mark them. How annoying, I had some great ideas!)
Please help me! These are the ones I've got so far:
Skellig - David Almond
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
The Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum
If you've got any suggestions please leave a comment!
Thanks,
Sophie
'"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books."' Looking for Alaska, John Green
How about Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I can think of more! I'll try to come back as soon as I do. But your teacher should read some modern children's/YA fiction - he is missing out. :)
Ooh, there's a great list here which might help you:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/youth/booklists/classics.html
Of those, I wish I'd thought to recommend Charlotte's Web, The Secret Garden and Little Women. :)
Not sure if these are what you are looking for but here are some I could think up, hope they can get you started.
ReplyDeletePeter Pan- J.M Barrie
The faraway tree- Enid Blyton
A wrinkle in time- Madeleine L'Engle
George's Mavolous medicine, the twits, BFG - Roald Dahl (anything he wrote)
A wizard of Earthsea- Ursula K. Le Guin
The jungle book- Rudyard Kipling
The secret garden- Frances Hodgson Burnett
I think its ridiculous that he is narrowing your choices based on his reading selection. I kind of hope you stump him with which ever books you decide on.
Seahn
Can't remember the author, but how about Bambi or Bambi's Children?
ReplyDeleteL. Diane Wolfe
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voyages of doctor dolittle was a great one. can't remember the author though!
ReplyDeleteI have no idea if this is even what you're looking for, but The Winnie the Pooh books are classics (and I still own all the ones I had as a kid)
ReplyDeletePerhaps the Phantom Tollbooth? Also, The Little Prince.
ReplyDeleteKristin
I know it's by a modern author, but is Junk by Melvin Burgess not known as a classic now?
ReplyDeleteI not really sure if it qualify's as a classic but I would say I Am the Messenger by. Markus Zusak.
ReplyDeleteThanks guys! You all rock!
ReplyDeleteAnd Seahn, he is actually a really great teacher and I know where he's coming from. It's just a bit annoying, that's all.
He probably just doesn't anyone talking about Twilight or HP!
ReplyDeleteThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
ReplyDeleteAnne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
I'm retracting the stumping your teacher thing, because a good teacher that works for you is really hard to get (I know I had some that had a teaching style that didn't work for me). What is a classic though- nominated for a literary award so could be well known, or published before a certain date?
ReplyDeleteLioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce
Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody (May only be well known in Australia- Not sure)
They are just favourites not classics though.
Seahn
The Little Princess by Frances Hodges Burnett. It's a pretty good book.
ReplyDeleteThe Hobbit/ Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. Speaks for itself.
The Borrowers by Mary Norton. Not so bad.
Also, don't limit youself to The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe if you like C.S. Lewis; there are seven books in the Narnia series, and LWW is only the second. I liked The Horse and His Boy and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader best.
Definitely Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott. Also, he must have read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, by John Boyne?? Wasn't that originally a YA/children's book?
ReplyDeleteSorry, I don't know many classics. I hated Skellig. Stone Cold is a great book, although you might not have read it. How about "Lord of the Flies." Or is that not children?
ReplyDeleteSorry I'm not much help.