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what classics should I read aloud...

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BiarritzCrackers · 22/11/2019 09:21

... while I still can? DS is 10, and I'm not sure how much longer he might want to be read to at bedtime, but I reckon I've at least a year.

We haven't deliberately divided reading up this way, but the books DS reads to himself are generally last two decades, and exH tends to read him series like Harry Potter, Secret Seven and the Roald Dahls, while I have been reading him older books.

Just started Box of Delights, before that Tom's Midnight Garden, a few of the Narnia set. Have Green Knowe lined up next, and Secret Garden.

Help me! What do you think is unmissable?

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Tuliptulip · 22/11/2019 09:27

I’m still reading to my boys at 11 and 13 - Prisoner of Zenda was popular recently. A bit more grown up than the ones you mention perhaps. Currently on the Scarlet Pimpernel- it is very wordy so am omitting bits as we go along (and slightly struggling with the French accents!)

BillHadersNewWife · 22/11/2019 09:23

Huckleberry Fin and Tom Sawyer....a bit of Dickens...Oliver Twist maybe?

Green Knowe is the BEST...magical book.