Children’s literature

[Sheva23]

Don't know about books, but I feel the level of cartoons went very downfallish after 2005-2010.

[Laly]

Le Petit Prince is a classic

I would also recommend anything by Astrid Lindgren.

Thank you for your sharing your advices! Those are indeed classics. I will for sure suggest my daughter to read Le petit prince a bit later, but she has already read two books by Astrid Lindgren, The Tomten and The Tomten and the Fox, with these sympathetic creatures typical of Scandinavian folklore:





My daughter will certainly read other books by Astrid Lindren and later, I will invite her to read those by the other great Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf.

[Laly]

Beatrix Potter, Enid Blyton, C.S. Lewis, Paul Jennings, Roald Dahl, R.L. Stine

My dear, thanks for your selection! I didn’t know about R. L. Stine and your compatriot Paul Jennings. I will read further on them. And of course, the other authors you mention are important. I’ve enjoyed a lot reading Roald Dahl in my childhood but unfortunately, I know Beatrix Potter, Enid Blyton or C.S. Lewis only very vaguely, which is why today, at your instigation, I bought a book including the totality of Beatrix Potter’s work:

[Laly]

Don't know about books, but I feel the level of cartoons went very downfallish after 2005-2010.

Yes, I agree concerning contemporary cartoons and I have shared my opinion on them previously in this thread. But regarding children’s books, there are always new treasures that are being produced, which is so comforting in this sad world!

[Creoda]

My dear, thanks for your selection! I didn’t know about R. L. Stine and your compatriot Paul Jennings. I will read further on them. And of course, the other authors you mention are important. I’ve enjoyed a lot reading Roald Dahl in my childhood but unfortunately, I know Beatrix Potter, Enid Blyton or C.S. Lewis only very vaguely, which is why today, at your instigation, I bought a book including the totality of Beatrix Potter’s work:

lol, you're quite a character.

They're just some of the books I remember reading/liking as a child, some are for older kids/tweens. I hope your daughter enjoys them though

[Arūnas]

https://culture.pl/en/article/discov...y-for-children

[Laly]

https://culture.pl/en/article/discov...y-for-children

It's really a pity all that old Polish children's literature is not translated... At least, the contemporary one, with inventive creators, is translated into various languages.

[Laly]

Apolline et la vallée de l’espoir (Apolline and the valley of hope), by the Malaysian Heng Swee Lim, is such an amazing book, with black lines and sprinkled with golden flat tints. I became interested in that book firstly because Apolline is my daughter’s name. It’s interesting that the author took that name for his young heroine, because it’s totally foreign to Malaysian culture. But this name is so consistent with the content of the book! Indeed, Apolline is a magnificent solar name – an aspect stressed in the book by the omnipresence of sunflowers, a name bright like hope. This book with a strong symbolic value can be read at several levels. (before 4 yo)

[Laly]

The classical The Three Little Pigs.

The issue of the story is constituted by the dilemma between the principle of pleasure and that of reality. The aim being to get the child to understand that we should not be lazy neither take things lightly, for the lack of which we could lose our life.

By the way, the houses built by the three heroes are symbolic of man’s progress throughout history: first, a precarious hut, then a wooden shack and finally, a house made of solid bricks. The first two pigs build their shelter as fast as they can, and with minimal effort, in order to be able to play during the rest of the day.

The issue exposed in The Three Little Pigs is the same as that of the myth of Hercules and of Aesop’s fable The Grasshopper and the Ant.

I have two versions of it:

- The English version of 1904 with illustrations by Leonard Leslie Brooke.



- The French edition of 1958, written by Paul François and illustrated with the gouache paints by the Dutch Gerda Müller.



The English version is definitely very complete and harsher. The French one lacks elements of high significance: for ex., in this version, the two first little pigs don’t die.

[Cossack]

Alexandre Dumas, Fenimore Cooper, Louis Boussenard,Jules Verne, Alfred Shklyarsky.As a child, I loved these authors very much