Satori Smiles Children's Book List

aulsmith : I don't think this is a good book for children. Twain's satire is too cynical for most children to get, not to mention the difficulties this book presents when put in historical context.

merrystar : Just never liked this much.

aulsmith : I wouldn't give a child the Norton edition of anything. Let them read the books for themselves first.

ahef1963 : I simply can't bear the amount of ill-treatment of animals that is in this book. It's brutal.

aulsmith: Just be prepared for your child to become a vegetarian for a while.

aulsmith : I think this is a difficult book for a child. Maybe late teens if the kid has already developed a taste for Dickens.

merrystar: One could argue that the latter books are better for teens....

merrystar : By all means, give kids the Hobbit, but I don't see the sense in an annotated version unless they happen to end up obsessed with Tolkien.

aulsmith : This was a good adventure story, but the geology is rather lame.

aulsmith : Only if you want your children immersed in Christian allegory.

aulsmith: Get the 1939 ed. not the one with the ants and the anti-war lectures that White added to The Once and Future King.

aulsmith : I found this heavy going as an adult and don't think I would have liked it any better as a child. It's pretty didactic.

aulsmith: I suspect many children miss a lot of the romantic mysticism of this book. I certainly did. But it's never too early to fall in love with Mole and Rat.