Happy Birthday, A. A. Milne
Jan. 18th, 2009 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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billroper)
If you were picking books for a child's first library, what would be in it? I'd have the collected Pooh, Six By Seuss, and The Monster At The End Of This Book (starring lovable furry ol' Grover). And a few solid kids' nonfiction, maybe outer space and certainly history. For later, a book of Greek myths (maybe D'Aulaires'), fairy tales by Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, Arabian Nights, some Verne, some Yolen, maybe some L'Engle. Copies of The Hobbit and The Chronicles of Prydain.
billroper)If you were picking books for a child's first library, what would be in it? I'd have the collected Pooh, Six By Seuss, and The Monster At The End Of This Book (starring lovable furry ol' Grover). And a few solid kids' nonfiction, maybe outer space and certainly history. For later, a book of Greek myths (maybe D'Aulaires'), fairy tales by Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, Arabian Nights, some Verne, some Yolen, maybe some L'Engle. Copies of The Hobbit and The Chronicles of Prydain.
