Thread of assistance for people who find it tricky remaining breezy about the books their dc choose in the library.

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I want to be breezy.

Reading is great right? Any sort of reading yes? Even books about puppies and unicorns and princess unicorns and boarding schools for unicorn princesses? And RAINBOW FAIRIES. may curses rain down upon you you tiny little winged bastards

I want the benign smiling face of library joy, not the Argh! Nooo! Really? Face, with the hopeful fingering and glances at the Michael Morpogos.

Tips gratefully received.

Just back from library. I was forced to read DD a 'My Little Pony' book involving princess ponies and rainbows, complete with a cover in a sick-making shade of lilac. Pity me.

LOL MI where other people can see them. This is next to half completed cross stitch yes?

it will pass wont it, it has to pass. There surely must be a saturation point for fairy adventures.

Oh and Elizabeth ends up with Bruce Patman.

No point reading it now really...

My dad used to tell me off for 'just reading novels'. I was EIGHT. I read, voraciously. Any normal father would have been chuffed. But no, he told me off again and again for 'novels'.

I now have two English degrees (and a really crap relationship with my father).

None of which stops me 'just suggesting' books the Inferiorettes might like . There is a great joy in seeing one's child reading the work of Sir Terry Pratchett.

I find that the worst, the absolute grimace-inducing worst, are the books based on Disney films. All plot, badly worded, yet lengthy. DD loves those.

At least yours go to the library. Mine frequently refuse my jolly invitations. It is most shaming.

Good grief Rhonda. I have no recollection at all of the characters in the books but your follow up sounds certainly action packed.

Oh the shame of my literary aspirations for the dc but being quite unable to spell Mr Morpurgo's name properly

OK so Olga might be a goer, and sounds like one too. Racy GPs eh?

I used to absolutely love those Point Horror books. I read a lot of Stephen King and James Herbert novels as well as a teenager and also went on to an English degree (am not a librarian though, sadly )

I struggle just to get DS to pick a book at all rather than an audio book or DVD. He has brought the same book about spiders home from nursery five times so far, I actually know it off by heart. DD also loves Rainbow Fairies, as well as Disney Princesses and My Little Pony. This too shall pass

www.amazon.co.uk/Xanth-15-Color-Panties-ebook/dp/B000FC14O4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328381743&sr=8-1

I might see if they're available on my kobo app, i like a bit of daft punnery

Thank you, PP, I was dreading googling. Mind you will Mr Inferior get all optimistic that I'm reading erotica, and attempt to remove my vest?

Mine don't mind a jolly trip in which is surprising as I find the children's basement a bit sinister and moist. With CROSS librarians! Talk about a cliche. I got scowled at today when requesting assistance with a checking out fuck up with the sensitive scanner.

at the Panties book. What is on the cover? is that a griffin?

They do grow out of fucking Rainbow Fairies, they really do.
I refused to read them to DD, but she read them to herself for what seemed like forever, but was actually only about 18 months.

Currently it's All Jacqueline Wilson All The Time, but this too shall pass. I've just dug out my old copies of the Gemma books and left them surreptitiously on her bedside, I don't think they're actually objectively better books, but it would give me a nostalgic glow to see her enjoying them.

JW is rather good, mind. Although when DD1 started writing a loooooong story of her own in a sub-JW genre, all about separating parents and Mum's New Boyfriend, I was slightly taken aback.

I refuse to read another Rainbow fairy book (dear god just how many are there now....?) so dd has to read them to herself and that is my one consolation - that she does actually read. Mermaids, unicorns, princesses, ballerinas and magical small animals also feature on dd's preferred book pile.

OTOH I am eager for her to move on - but OTOH I'm afraid of what she might move on to.....

Hmm, good point. I suggest you purchase something a similar size, Dickens might work, and borrow the dust jacket...

IIRC it's a roc. It's sitting in a hard place. And the protagonists are required to remove something from between the two.

I read a large number of books about the Loch Ness Monster as a teenager

DD is only three but only likes books with princesses or horses. I am more embarrassed about my own choices. It's much easier to hide Jilly Cooper in the kindle though.

I used to tell myself that studying English in my degree and postgrad earned me the right to read crap for a bit. 20 years on I have to accept I love reading crap.

And i loved SVH in my youth. So it was set early.

do always proclaim wuthering heights to be favourite novel though

Rhondajean - thank you! Although now I want to read it. Bugger.

I've just read the whole Georgia Nicolson series by Louise Rennison and have almost wet myself laughing. I still like reading teenage fiction.

Finally read the last two Trebizon books (v cheap on kindle) and my god they are dire.

Haha first novel I read on my kindle was Riders. First time I had read any jilly. V enjoyable.

Not a library choice but I have to plaster a fixed grin on my face when my daughter - let's call her Juniormargo - chooses her "Juniormargo's adventures with the Disney Princesses" book that her grandma bought her.

Cinderella went to the ball and spotted her friend Juniormargo there. Cinderella was so happy and so was Juniormargo. Cinderella married the prince and Juniormargo often went to visit Cinderella and her prince. The End.

I'm sorry Margo I know you are suffering but that just made me laugh aloud.

I'm very glad my mother never interfered with my teenage addiction to Molly Parkin.