What age for The Complete Works Of Lewis Carroll please?

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And also Black Beauty?

TIA.

Get them for the parents to read aloud if you must. Frankly, I didn't read Lewia Carroll myself ever, just enjoyed the pictures and I was a literary child! My father used to read to me and they sent him to sleep. I read Black Beauty at about 9 i suppose but i bet it's dated now. Lewis Carroll is more suited to adult reading IMO. Recently I got great comfort from knowing about the world through the looking glass when my boss decided to bully me out of a job.

It is my copy of LC so I already have it and I have bought DD an abridged version of Black Beauty. I remember reading it and crying my eyes out.

My dd read and enjoyed Alice in Wonderland at 7. The dds enjoyed black beauty being read to them at 9 and 8 but I suspect they wouldn't have read it themselves.

DD is only 6 but has complained she has read every book on her shelf. She is always reading so it is a good job she is getting new books for Christmas. I might offer her the Lewis Carroll next year when she is 7. Thanks. {fsmile]

I read Alice and Through the Looking Glass at 5 (good reader and not much else available to read at home apart from a set of encyclopedias).

DD reads a dictionary some nights before bed.