Our Favorite Books

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duriz:

Incidentally, Friday is our (DH, DD & I) dinner out, after which we go reading at Borders.
YAYY for your recommendation :hugs:

Nice :love:

Enjoy yourselves tonite!

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hermes173:

1. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2. Mr Norrell and Jonathan Strange by Suzanne Clark

Thanks for the recommendation, hermes173. The one by Clark sounds interesting. Will chk it out.

[phtthp]

which Enid blyton books are suitable for K1, K2 kids to read ?

[wayne.012373colquitt]

Harry Potter…?

[bonjour]

I got The Carrot Seed for my daughter when she turned 2 YO. Very simple to read yet meaningful. Talks about the little boy who perservered and eventually managed to grow carrot seeds when everyone told him that "it won’t come up".

[iRabbit]

Just finished Kite Runner while travelling in a tour bus. Can’t help tearing especially at the last part when the boy attempted suicide. Felt the book touched my inner self (good books do that to us don’t they) since I’m a dad with similar paternal expectation like ‘Baba’.


The phrase that shook me, "In Afghanistan, there are many children but no childhood."

After finishing the book, felt so fortunate to be born in S’pore. Can’t wait to get my hands on A Thousand Splendid Suns next. Hopefully it’s not as heart wrenching.

[junetan76]

I used to be an avid reader in my much younger days.


Here's some books that I love-

1) Anne of green gables.

A total of 8 books in this series.
Ebooks are available though real books are more dear to read (and less radiation from the device).

Highly recommended for Secondary One onwards. Though of course if a P5 could understand this book and enjoy it, then it would be really awesome.

There's the simple version for p2-p4 to read.
And another version for those who are not ready to read the original version but is at a more advanced stage than p4 level.



2) Books by the author, David Shannon.

His books are very suitable and fun for k1 to p2 levels. But many adults likes reading his books for pure enjoyment too.


3) Tim and the Hidden People books by Sheila K.
McCullugh

It's a series of books, that consist of characters such as \"hidden people\", \"witches\" etc.
Unfortunately, these books are out of print.
They also seem to be unavailable in NLB.

timandthehiddenpeople.net/


4) Harry potter series.


5) Enid Blyton series especially \"The enchanted wood\" series and \"The naughtiest girl\" series.

These are suitable for primary 2 to primary 4 children (depending on their reading age).


6) The Narnia series

and other assorted titles which didn't come to my mind yet.