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Can't believe Pooh wasn't on the list. "We'll have to take provisions," said Pooh. "Take what?" said Piglet. " Food, " said Pooh. "Oh," said Piglet. " I thought you said provisions. "
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls: a grown man reflects back on his 20-yr-old self growing up in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Oklahoma and his love as a boy of his two dogs. You learn about poverty, yearning, sacrifice, loyalty, heartbreak,, and unconditional love. My 4th grade teacher read a little bit of this book each day to our class after lunch if we had done all of our morning lessons,and I fell in love with reading because of this one book. I saved up my pennies that year to be allowed to buy a hard bound copy, which still sits on my bookshelf. Have the box of tissues ready for the very satisfying yet sad ending.
Secret Garden is there, and it is a better book than The Little Princess, which is a bit laboured. The same author wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy and an Amazing book called The Lost Prince.
First read Lord of the Rings when I was 15, just after reading the Hobbit. And it changed my life. I think 15 is a good age to first read LOTR but it's a book that needs to be re read over the years - it's a book that truly grows with you.
My father read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to me when I was 7; what a enormous theological foundation it gave me, as well as developing a love for imaginative play. For my 7th birthday, I received Charlotte’s Web, my first chapter book of my own. It also sparked creativity, imaginative play, and an understanding of life and death. I still own both copies of both books and my own four children have read them. They are all adults now and are all readers. I credit these and other books you mentioned as keys to their curiosity, love for learning and reading for pleasure.
@@nicolabenson1155 Whenever my life gets chaotic, or I’m just sad, I reread all of the Anne books, all of them from Anne of Greene Gables through Rilla of Ingleside. I know that, especially after WWI, LM Montgomery dealt with serious depression but she sure has affected my life. I first read Anne when I was 11. I’m 72 now and I still love those books.
Okay, I read this as an older adult, just a few years ago. I was NOT expecting that bad thing that happens to a certain character. Two characters, really! (I don't want to spoil.) It shocked me and left me so sad. It didn't help that I was reading it at the nursing home where my mother was recovering from surgery after a fall. I picked a children's book because I was so stressed out and wanted a "pick me up." This wasn't it. Now that my mother is dead, it has even sadder memories associated with it. Obviously, I can't blame the book/author. I can see why it's a beloved favorite. But for me, it was the wrong book at the wrong time.
Thank you! I've never read anything by Laura Ingrid Wilder before. She's the author of the Little House on the Prairie books isn't she? I will look some of her books out though. Which one would you recommend?
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 I would start suggest starting with her Little House series. They go quickly. Her name was Laura Ingalls and she married Almanzo Wilder. She starts with her life as a child in Wisconsin, and then the family starts moving west as the books progress. The first book is Little House in the Big Woods, then Little House on the Prairie, Farmer Boy, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, and These Happy Golden Years. My teacher read them to us in 2nd grade (my dear second grade teacher was my major inspiration to read!) and then I read them on my own many times. I’m also from South Dakota, so I felt that bond with Laura, because her family settled in South Dakota. Laura Ingalls Wilder will give you a great taste of classic American pioneer writing. Good reading!
@@tristanandtheclassics6538you may want to read Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser. It gives the context that LIW wrote the Little House books. As a Brit I was only aware of the TV series and then since living in the US I found out it’s a book series. I think like Enid Bylton books the context is needed.
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Some (most?) of the books are somewhat racist, but I still read The Long Winter every couple of years. She and her family - the whole town, really - nearly starved that year. It's set in the winter of 1880-81.
I was thrilled that you included The Indian in the Cupboard. I would always read it to my third grade class and they loved it! They also loved James and the Giant Peach and Charlotte’s Web. I still read children’s literature even though I’m now retired after teaching for 40 yrs. Thanks for this video! 😊
A suggestion. If you are going to continue this series, I recommend doing it based upon age group : under 6, 6-8, 8-10, 10-12... or (picture books - such as Where The Wild Things Are, early chapter books, middle grade chapter books, etc).
Yes, Tom Sawyer is a precursor to Huckleberry Finn. And it makes sense to start with this book as it fits for younger audience, while HF is for older ones, and can be read the next year after Tom Sawyer.
Anything of the Laura ingles wilderbooks about the Ingals family. - If you want something outside of English literature - tove jansson: comet in moominland (good place to start even though it's the second book in the series) - Astrid Lindgren : Ronja the robbers daughter, brothers lion heart, or Rasmus and the vagabond. Just to mention a few. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The little prince
I read The Coral Island as a young child and was enthralled. Breadfruit trees, the clear pool, hiding out in the secret cave, etc. It wonderfully captured my imagination at that age. And you're correct, no one ever talks about it these days. I enjoyed the first half more than the second.
Enthralling is the right word. As for the second half, I think that many authors get fatigued as they see the end they want to get to, but it takes more writing than they expect to get there.
Patty-As a cousin across the pond, I had to add my own favorites. The All of a Kind Family, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Mary Poppins, Wizard of Oz, LIttle Women, The Little Princess, and Frances the Badger. Of course, some of these titles have other stories by these authors that just as exciting. Children's books convey messages for adults as well. Great list as usual.
Some excellent works there, Patty. Never heard of 5 little peppers. Little Women is outstanding. There's also Pippy Longstocking. What about Emily of the New Moon by L M Montgomery. I think another list will come in the future.😀❤️
Pippy Longstockings was excellent. I think I've read Emily of the New Moon. Quite a while ago. I've read a lot of her books. Excellent writing.! I truly enjoy your videos.
I read Mark Twain to my kids when they were little. They loved it so much that they had me read every word the man ever wrote, even his half-finished last book. We took a pilgrimage to Hannibal, which was wonderful. I may never make it to London to visit the Sherlock Holmes and Charles Dickens museums, but at least I saw Hannibal.
Two that I would like to add from my childhood are The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin and the Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner. Both stories that combine the real world with a magical world.
Carry On, Mr Bowdich is a good one. I read it first and gave it to my husband who loved it and my 12 yr old daughter has read it at least 3 times. Inspiring! Fantastic!
My favorites from your list are The Secret Garden, Indian in the Cupboard, (all of Roahl Dahl), and The Hobbit. Ultimately though, my all time favorite is Pippi Longstocking. I still remember hysterically laughing reading in the back of the car on the way to school in the morning and afternoon. Wonderful stuff. I have the Wind in the Willows on my TBR shelf in the bedroom. I am thinking now I should read that one next.
Read Treasure Island to my child and it was also the first time I had ever read it- there were descriptions of scenes that stuck with me, like when they’re moving through the docks to board the Hispaniola and sailors on other ships were swinging from one rigging to another, I felt like I was there & wanted nothing more than to board a ship for a sea adventure
I can't believe any of the Little House books weren't on the list, especially Little House in the Big Woods. Family love and resilience in the face of a lot of hardship. I read them to my children and I still read them as an adult.
I love this list, I read most of them as a child, and have reread many of them with great pleasure. It just reminded me of the first book I can remember: at a small preschool in the sixties we were read Bunyon’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’. Not exactly children’s reading, but I can still remember be taken on a strange and magical adventure. I can even picture the book, it was a huge tome, with copper plate illustrations. I was probably about three or four.
What a wonderful list! Many of my favourites here. I too particularly love The Horse and his Boy. Do you know The Borrowers? I loved that as a child and reread it recently, and it stands up well.
What a fabulous list. I recommend The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, which is absolutely brilliantly humorous. Please do more of these reviews. I would also love a list of adult classics that would transition young teens into adult literature without age inappropriate content. Thank you so much!
ANY Roald Dahl !... Adventure, humour, mischief. No wonder his books are loved by all. But Charlottes Web is just a beautiful read. I still remember the emotion and grief I felt reading it as a 9 year old.
Two books that captivated me as a child were The Borrowers (a story about little tiny people!) and My Side of the Mountain. I saw the film "My Side of the Mountain" as a young teen and was completely taken in. It's a story about a runaway who survives in the woods by living in the cavity of a large tree. I highly recommend, even though there is a LOT of study of algae (only in the book). Once you get passed that, and see how he gets and trains a baby falcon, has some unexpected visitors (the fear was real) and lives through a snowy winter, you can't help but be drawn into his world. Good thing there are sequels!
What a great video! Fantastic list. Children of the New Forest is one of my all-time favourites. I'm a school library assistant and am always so chuffed when a child falls in love with a classic.
Thus should have been a list of at least 30 as so many gems were left out! Anne of Green Gables, Mary Poppins, Emil and the detectives, Swiss Family Robinson, Wizard of Oz, Black Stallion, Prisoner of Zenda, actually it should have been a list of 50!!! 😂
you are the reason i love the youtube algorithm! so glad i stumbled upon you! i'm happy to see i've read half of these classics, and dismayed to see that i've only read half of these classics! the remainders are now on my TBR shelf!!! and i'm with you; these are not just for children. in fact, i bet i've read half of my half as an adult.......... and i 100 agree with you - treasure island is one of the best books i've ever read (yes, i read it as an adult 🙃🙃)!!!! cheers, and can't wait to see what you've got in store for us in 2024!
Great list!! Some are new to me. I've enjoyed reading many classics to my girls. The first I read to them was The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (illustrated brilliantly by Ingpen). They also have loved Heidi, The Phantom Tollbooth, Anne of Green Gables, Betsy-Tacy, the Nutcracker, The Boxcar Children to name a few not on your list. I admit Peter Pan was a little violent for my taste, but maybe when they are older they can read it on their own. Good stuff!
Great books, Dina. Anne of Green Gables is extraordinary. My wife says Emily of the New Moon is brilliant too. I've not read Boxcar Children or Phantom Tollbooth, though I know of them.
@tristanandtheclassics6538 my girls and I were rolling with laughter with The Phantom Tollbooth. I will be sure to put Emily of the New Moon in their minds!
Your channel appeared unexpectedly on my screen today. What a wonderful thing! Your enthusiasm and humane approach are a relief from too many similar sites that are snarky or didactic or smarmy. I was reminded by this list of some books I read beginning around age ten--by Howard Pease. I have no idea how I came upon his books about a merchant marine named Tod Moran, who was a crew member on a tramp steamer called the Araby, The characters and situations were riveting to me. I decided to reread most of them a few years ago, soon after my 70th birthday. They were as engaging as I recalled. Pease wrote what used to be called "boys' adventure" stories. He had expectations that his young readers would pay attention to the technical terms about ships. Once introduced and explained, the words were on their own. with the readers. I wish those books were still in print because I would like to share them with readers of all ages.
Great list. Yes, please make another of great children's books. I love 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. Another book I love to reread is The Jungle Book. I love Treasure Island. I need to reread that. Thank you.
The children of Green Knowe- Lucy M. Boston. Ghost story, and fantasy. Other books in the series as well.And you can still visit the house in Hemmingford Grey. Fantastic!
Thank you for this video it was fantastic and classic children’s books stay in your memory forever when read as a child and rereading them as an adult is even more rewarding! Greetings from Canada.
Thanks for the push! I loved reading with my kids when I was homeschooling, but I find it so hard to read by myself. I ordered Huckleberry Finn, a Scribner Classics version of Robin Hood (have not read either), and a first edition of Bambi which I read out loud to them in elementary school and remember fondly. I will start here, and hopefully get to some of the more “grown up books” after.
That's amazing. In truth, as much as these are sometimes called children's classics, they are enjoyed even more as adults. They are so remarkably written that it is impossible to say that they are children's books. I love reading to my boy, it takes me back to when my mum read to me.
Love this as Children’s books are among my favorites. I would add Anne of Green Gables. I also add Dr. Doolittle. I read this with my son when he was in 5th grade. I was shocked at how good the book was compared to the movie!
Wow! Thank you for this list! I feel illiterate....have only read 6 of the 20. My wife and I just finished reading The Hobbit together and have now started The Swiss Family Robinson by JD Wyss. The goal is to prepare for using these with our grandchildren. This list helps a lot!
I’ve just caught up with this. What a brilliant video 😊. I love children’s literature. I read the Chronicles of Narnia and Charlotte’s Web in 2023. This year I am adding all your other recommendations to my tbr. In fact I’m going to start right now.
The Silver Sword (Escape from Warsaw I think in America) was a childhood book that stayed with me. Not sure how well it holds up. I avoided Watership Down as a kid but I think I will give it a go and see if it would work for my 12 year olds. I’m so glad that there is less gatekeeping around The Hobbit and LotR. Back in the 80s/90s in London it felt very much like a boys club and you had to commit to reading the entire series multiple times before you could have access to the books. Probably not the case but that’s how it felt!
THANK YOUUUUUUU TRISTAN! I haven't even watched the episode yet, but I did ask you for this topic when I wrote my first comment when I subscribed about a month ago! As soon as I saw the topic today, I jumped right into the comments section, to thank you for the subject, whether my request was involved in your choice of dealing with it now, or not. A very heartfelt thank you for having listened and for having taken the time to put this episode together. I was really looking forward to it! And now, off to your episode! I'm impatient to discover it!!!! I'll post another comment after I've watched it! I'm so happy!
The Walker family are Commander Ted Walker of the Royal Navy, his Australian-born wife Mary Walker and their children, often called the Swallows: John, Susan, Titty, Roger and Bridget.
Beatrix Potter's The Complete Tales. Ohh, I love "Two Bad Mice!" The Velveteen Rabbit is unforgettable too, but maybe considered a 'picture book' for the younger readers to be.
Hey, this is exactly what I was looking for!! I just joined booktube and found younimmediately. Then went scrolling for this vid cause I'm homeschooling next year!!
I can completely relate to the putting legos (or in my case, polly pockets) in small places after the Indian and the Cupboard 😂 Great list, thanks so much for sharing these! There were quite a few that I havent even heard of!
I haven't read all of them, having been an adult for decades but some great choices. I agree with your top choice, Treasure Island was the first classic I read at 8 or 9 years old and I have re-read it many times, it's still fresh and brilliant as ever. 2 of your list I only read as an adult over 30 but really loved, namely Watership Down and Swallows and Amazons and the whole of that series (the latter unfortunately barely known in Germany).
I'm reading Treasure Island to my boy at the moment, and I think I'm enjoying it more than he is. So many of god "children's book" ate just great stories which are equally good for adults.
Some great recommendations here, some I loved as a child, some I discovered and loved as an adult 😊 I have to say that I’m surprised that the Tales of Redwall series (at least Redwall, the first one) didn’t make the list, but I suppose youtube won’t let you upload videos that are 83 years long 😂
I so loved this when I was a girl; I read it over and over again. I think what I loved was how self-sufficient the children became, surviving without adults.
Charlotte’s Web was the first book I read that I actually enjoyed and got me wanting to read more. Also Black Beauty and The Secret garden were favorites. I didn’t read The Hobbit or Narnia until I was an adult and loved them both. I might check out some of the others I have never read from your list.
Yes, Please make another one! I've read Bambi which I loved but I wouldn't read to children lol and am reading Peter Pan and Pinocchio which are fantastic. There are so many great childrens classics.
Love this list. As I see others are adding to it, I would suggest "Over Sea, Under Stone" by Susan Cooper (and the others in the "Dark Is Rising" series).
Another wonderful video! Thank you so much. I wholeheartedly concur with your enthusiasm for The Horse and His Boy. Fabulous title, deceptively deep story. Black Beauty is too often glibly dismissed (by people who've never read it) as a book about a horse for children. Once we breach the 20th century, I also adore A Wizard of Earthsea and Lord of the Flies.
@@yvonnehayton6753 Yes, it's not bednight reading for 6 year olds! I wouldn't want to explain Simon's encounter or Roger's affinity for cruelty to young children. :D
I've just found your channel today, and love this list.Several on your list were books I read as a child and have read to my own children. Looking forward to trying some of the others. I would love to hear more suggestions from you.
So many lovely memories reading some of these. Just reread Black Beauty same copy that we had as children. Narnia was my sons favorite and he read them over and over. I read them all one summer when I found a volume with the whole series and Illustrations. Watership down I read as adult a year or two ago. The Hobbit! Didnt know about this until adult and have read it many times now. Thank you for a wonderful overview of these books. Some I look forward to reading in my golden year upon me now.
What a great list! Man, I have a vivid memory of my Mom and me both crying our eyes out as she read the end of Charlotte’s Web.😅 And I loved Peter Pan when I eventually read it in my late teens. Agreed, there’s a LOT more to that book than the Disney movie might make you think. Some of my other favorites are: The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende. Everyone’s seen the movie, but the book is on another level. Talk about deep! But accessible and bursting with imagination! One of his other translated works, Momo, is just as good. That one is about the concept of time. In Canada there’s a series of boarding school books that everyone grows up reading, called the MacDonald Hall series, or the Bruno and Boots series. The first book was written by Gordon Korman when he was still a kid in highschool, but the quality is surprisingly solid! The whole series is hilarious, and my sister and I still reread it every few years. I have memories of my Mom crying with laughter over parts of these books, much like you.😜 And I also have to mention the Jacob Two-Two books, by Mordecai Richler. For slightly younger readers, those books are weird, humorous, and slightly dark around the edges. Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang was my favourite as a kid.😋👍
I've not read Charlotte's Web since I was a kid. That book broke my heart! I always wanted to watch The Neverending Story but somehow never got around to it. I did not even know it was a book until I heard it mentioned on Booktube. I will have to get to it sometime! The older I get, the more I am gravitating back toward children's books. I don't know quite what that says about me. But there you have it.
Wonderful video. I read so many of these books to my children and now look forward to reading them to my grandchildren. I hope you decide to do a part two. Thank you.
Just finished Peter Pan,Treasure Island, and The Indian in the Cupboard. The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrrobe is on my table ,by my teading glasse.s . I bought very inexpensive used copies and annotated and summarized in a notebook ,too. It was easy I wanted to think more about these stories. 🌟 Since I started reading these "kids" books a few weeks ago I have better conversations, better dreams,and more empathy. Hope you try it ! Start with ANY one here. And consider waiting a day or two to digest one before diving into the next..
This list is fantastic Tristan. I wish I’d thought about them years ago. My son was born in 1997 and I read him all of the Harry Potter books as they were published. He was spellbound (sorry) but I wish now that I had read him all the ones on your list. Although he is in his 20s now, I’m going to buy him Treasure Island for Christmas. Keep up the good work. Peter
That's the spirit! And don't get discouraged if they don't immediately fall in love with it. Eventually, they'll love the attention and there will be that story that captures their imagination. Time with your kids is never wasted, even during those fidgety years when you think nothing is getting through to them. It is! Your voice, your physical closeness, your undivided attention - it's all impacting them in a deep, powerful way, even when they are too young to realize it yet.
You’ve reminded me of so many old favorites! (I was lucky to have parents who both lived to read aloud ☺️). The Little Princess us also really good, Anne of Green Gables, and any books by the Swedish writer Astrid Lingren. My own favorite is probably Ronia the Robbers daughter (which I still reread). Also, Swallows and Amazons is whole series of maybe fifteen books. It was due to them that my eleven year old self learned semaphore and Morse code 😆
On our first date,together,😊 not first ever,a week ago ,we ended up at a used book store. I mentioned that I am reading children's classics this summer. My friend was enthusiastic and said he is doing the same.! He loaned me Peter Pan and I loaned him Treasure Island. The next one on our list is The Silver Chair by C.S.Lewis I'm .looking forward to the hilarious and terrifying way the giants prepare for the autumn fair . Tristan,thank you for these suggestions.! I plan to read at least five of them. My manfriend will be receiving a thimble for sharing Peter Pan. Is this too.much info, ya'll?
This is charming. Thanks for sharing. When I asked my wife out, I did it with a bouquet of roses and a small, carved, wooden box, inside which was a silver thimble and a little scroll with that paragraph from the book written in it. I carried a bunch of thimbles with me for some time after that. I'd slip one into her hand, or leave one in the saucer of her coffee in a coffee shop when she had stepped away. Love that we think alike. You are a true romantic. 😀❤️
I love the Robert Heinlein juveniles: Space Cadet, Tunnel in the Sky, Citizen of the Galaxy, The Rolling Stones, Farmer in the Sky, Red Planet, Between Planets, Starman Jones, Rocket Ship Galileo, Have Space Suit-Will Travel, The Star Beast, and Time for the Stars. Don't let the silliness of some of those titles put you off - they're excellent.
Strange may sound, but I read the Wuthering Hights when age of nine. Love that book. In my mind, then, if you find a passion like this, you should run away with the person you love. In childhood, read Oliver Twist and felt a strong emphaty for a fellow child from this book. That was a source of extreme fear and happiness for me.
YAHOOOO Get that POPCORN A POPPING and warm that butter baby because we are all in for a treat..I've been so looking forward to this type of video from you..CHEERS FOREVER DUDELY DUDE
🤣 i love your enthusiasm, Todd. You put a spring in my step.
Ha ha! I felt the same way when I read the title! Saving this one for when I can give it the attention it deserves. Thank you, Tristan!
Can't believe Pooh wasn't on the list.
"We'll have to take provisions," said Pooh.
"Take what?" said Piglet.
" Food, " said Pooh.
"Oh," said Piglet. " I thought you said provisions. "
The Borrowers by Mary Norton was one of my favorite childhood reads.
Watership Down was an amazing read!
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls: a grown man reflects back on his 20-yr-old self growing up in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Oklahoma and his love as a boy of his two dogs. You learn about poverty, yearning, sacrifice, loyalty, heartbreak,, and unconditional love. My 4th grade teacher read a little bit of this book each day to our class after lunch if we had done all of our morning lessons,and I fell in love with reading because of this one book. I saved up my pennies that year to be allowed to buy a hard bound copy, which still sits on my bookshelf. Have the box of tissues ready for the very satisfying yet sad ending.
One of my childhood favorites
The little princess, captivated me as a child. Black Beauty was just too much too much, made me cry. Loved this video.
Secret Garden is there, and it is a better book than The Little Princess, which is a bit laboured. The same author wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy and an Amazing book called The Lost Prince.
I like being called a bookish friend! Hello to you, my bookish friend!
Pleased to meet you, bookish friend 😀❤️👍
" The wind in the willows"!👍👍👍🥰
Oh, I just want to go on an adventure!
First read Lord of the Rings when I was 15, just after reading the Hobbit. And it changed my life. I think 15 is a good age to first read LOTR but it's a book that needs to be re read over the years - it's a book that truly grows with you.
My father read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to me when I was 7; what a enormous theological foundation it gave me, as well as developing a love for imaginative play. For my 7th birthday, I received Charlotte’s Web, my first chapter book of my own. It also sparked creativity, imaginative play, and an understanding of life and death. I still own both copies of both books and my own four children have read them. They are all adults now and are all readers. I credit these and other books you mentioned as keys to their curiosity, love for learning and reading for pleasure.
Can’t go wrong with Narnia.
Anne of Green Gables
Whenever I get really down, I go to Avonlea.
@@nbenefieli hit a bit of a low during Covid, and re-reading Anne of Green Gables definitely helped
@@nicolabenson1155 Whenever my life gets chaotic, or I’m just sad, I reread all of the Anne books, all of them from Anne of Greene Gables through Rilla of Ingleside. I know that, especially after WWI, LM Montgomery dealt with serious depression but she sure has affected my life. I first read Anne when I was 11. I’m 72 now and I still love those books.
Okay, I read this as an older adult, just a few years ago. I was NOT expecting that bad thing that happens to a certain character. Two characters, really! (I don't want to spoil.) It shocked me and left me so sad. It didn't help that I was reading it at the nursing home where my mother was recovering from surgery after a fall. I picked a children's book because I was so stressed out and wanted a "pick me up." This wasn't it. Now that my mother is dead, it has even sadder memories associated with it. Obviously, I can't blame the book/author. I can see why it's a beloved favorite. But for me, it was the wrong book at the wrong time.
Great list!
The Laura Ingalls Wilder series really sparked my love of reading. I highly recommend it.
Thank you! I've never read anything by Laura Ingrid Wilder before. She's the author of the Little House on the Prairie books isn't she? I will look some of her books out though. Which one would you recommend?
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 I would start suggest starting with her Little House series. They go quickly. Her name was Laura Ingalls and she married Almanzo Wilder.
She starts with her life as a child in Wisconsin, and then the family starts moving west as the books progress. The first book is Little House in the Big Woods, then Little House on the Prairie, Farmer Boy, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, and These Happy Golden Years.
My teacher read them to us in 2nd grade (my dear second grade teacher was my major inspiration to read!) and then I read them on my own many times. I’m also from South Dakota, so I felt that bond with Laura, because her family settled in South Dakota.
Laura Ingalls Wilder will give you a great taste of classic American pioneer writing. Good reading!
Such comfort reads!@@carlabrown6849
@@tristanandtheclassics6538you may want to read Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser. It gives the context that LIW wrote the Little House books. As a Brit I was only aware of the TV series and then since living in the US I found out it’s a book series. I think like Enid Bylton books the context is needed.
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Some (most?) of the books are somewhat racist, but I still read The Long Winter every couple of years. She and her family - the whole town, really - nearly starved that year. It's set in the winter of 1880-81.
I was thrilled that you included The Indian in the Cupboard. I would always read it to my third grade class and they loved it! They also loved James and the Giant Peach and Charlotte’s Web. I still read children’s literature even though I’m now retired after teaching for 40 yrs. Thanks for this video! 😊
No-one should ever stop reading children's literature. It is what forster lit the fires for us. And they are simply great stories.😀❤️
I always want to read every book you talk about because your enthusiasm is contagious
A suggestion. If you are going to continue this series, I recommend doing it based upon age group : under 6, 6-8, 8-10, 10-12... or (picture books - such as Where The Wild Things Are, early chapter books, middle grade chapter books, etc).
Don’t forget Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain and The Princess and the Goblin! I read The Princess and the Goblin to my kids last summer, it was fabulous!
Yes, Tom Sawyer is a precursor to Huckleberry Finn. And it makes sense to start with this book as it fits for younger audience, while HF is for older ones, and can be read the next year after Tom Sawyer.
The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie were my absolute favourites
This is my favorite channel I’ve come across in ages. Thank you so much for your heartfelt enthusiasm.
Anything of the Laura ingles wilderbooks about the Ingals family.
- If you want something outside of English literature
- tove jansson: comet in moominland (good place to start even though it's the second book in the series)
- Astrid Lindgren : Ronja the robbers daughter, brothers lion heart, or Rasmus and the vagabond. Just to mention a few.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The little prince
Fantastic list…would love another! As others have said, this list has to include beloved Canadian classic Anne of Green Gables :)
I read The Coral Island as a young child and was enthralled. Breadfruit trees, the clear pool, hiding out in the secret cave, etc. It wonderfully captured my imagination at that age. And you're correct, no one ever talks about it these days. I enjoyed the first half more than the second.
Enthralling is the right word. As for the second half, I think that many authors get fatigued as they see the end they want to get to, but it takes more writing than they expect to get there.
Patty-As a cousin across the pond, I had to add my own favorites. The All of a Kind Family, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Mary Poppins, Wizard of Oz, LIttle Women, The Little Princess, and Frances the Badger. Of course, some of these titles have other stories by these authors that just as exciting. Children's books convey messages for adults as well. Great list as usual.
Some excellent works there, Patty. Never heard of 5 little peppers. Little Women is outstanding. There's also Pippy Longstocking. What about Emily of the New Moon by L M Montgomery. I think another list will come in the future.😀❤️
Pippy Longstockings was excellent. I think I've read Emily of the New Moon. Quite a while ago. I've read a lot of her books. Excellent writing.! I truly enjoy your videos.
I loved The Finn Family Moomin Troll and Pippi Longstocking as a child. Some great choices on here.
Finding your UA-cam channel is a marvelous gift! Thank you!
I read Mark Twain to my kids when they were little. They loved it so much that they had me read every word the man ever wrote, even his half-finished last book. We took a pilgrimage to Hannibal, which was wonderful. I may never make it to London to visit the Sherlock Holmes and Charles Dickens museums, but at least I saw Hannibal.
That's wonderful. The memories we make through books are priceless. I'm reading Treasure Island with my boy at the moment.
Tristan, what a warm and friendly face you have and such enthusiasm! Love these videos. They cheer me up!
AND you laugh like Tucker Carlson😂
Two that I would like to add from my childhood are The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin and the Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner. Both stories that combine the real world with a magical world.
Yes, the entire tetralogy of Earthsea was captivating, but the first book was something special.
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander. Like 5 book series very well done with life lessons.
This is terrific. I was wondering when you would make a video on Children's Classics. This is brilliant!!!
Thank you Lucy.😀❤️
Oh the Wind in the Willows! So lovely. My son read this so many times when he was young ♥️
This was a charming journey down memory lane, thank you. Several I haven’t thought about in forever. It was nice to remember discovering reading. 😊
Carry On, Mr Bowdich is a good one. I read it first and gave it to my husband who loved it and my 12 yr old daughter has read it at least 3 times. Inspiring! Fantastic!
Thrilled by this video! Thsnk you so much Tristan..
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My favorites from your list are The Secret Garden, Indian in the Cupboard, (all of Roahl Dahl), and The Hobbit. Ultimately though, my all time favorite is Pippi Longstocking. I still remember hysterically laughing reading in the back of the car on the way to school in the morning and afternoon. Wonderful stuff. I have the Wind in the Willows on my TBR shelf in the bedroom. I am thinking now I should read that one next.
I adore "Huckelberry Finn". A brilliant book!
I was six when my father read " The treasure island" to me. I liked it very much. I was simply stunned!
It is a book I love. I think the chold in us never goes away. We just put it to sleep and books like this wake it up.
Read Treasure Island to my child and it was also the first time I had ever read it- there were descriptions of scenes that stuck with me, like when they’re moving through the docks to board the Hispaniola and sailors on other ships were swinging from one rigging to another, I felt like I was there & wanted nothing more than to board a ship for a sea adventure
@@delormepress I think I have loved English literature since that time!😁
I can't believe any of the Little House books weren't on the list, especially Little House in the Big Woods. Family love and resilience in the face of a lot of hardship. I read them to my children and I still read them as an adult.
I’m reading The Secret Garden to my kids right now, 3 chapters a night. It’s my favorite book ever!!
I love this list, I read most of them as a child, and have reread many of them with great pleasure. It just reminded me of the first book I can remember: at a small preschool in the sixties we were read Bunyon’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’. Not exactly children’s reading, but I can still remember be taken on a strange and magical adventure. I can even picture the book, it was a huge tome, with copper plate illustrations. I was probably about three or four.
I wouldn't be comfortable reading Huckleberry Finn out loud to a child, nor would I encourage a child to read it. I think it's a book for adults.
What a wonderful list! Many of my favourites here. I too particularly love The Horse and his Boy. Do you know The Borrowers? I loved that as a child and reread it recently, and it stands up well.
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What a fabulous list. I recommend The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, which is absolutely brilliantly humorous. Please do more of these reviews. I would also love a list of adult classics that would transition young teens into adult literature without age inappropriate content. Thank you so much!
ANY Roald Dahl !... Adventure, humour, mischief. No wonder his books are loved by all. But Charlottes Web is just a beautiful read. I still remember the emotion and grief I felt reading it as a 9 year old.
Two books that captivated me as a child were The Borrowers (a story about little tiny people!) and My Side of the Mountain. I saw the film "My Side of the Mountain" as a young teen and was completely taken in. It's a story about a runaway who survives in the woods by living in the cavity of a large tree. I highly recommend, even though there is a LOT of study of algae (only in the book). Once you get passed that, and see how he gets and trains a baby falcon, has some unexpected visitors (the fear was real) and lives through a snowy winter, you can't help but be drawn into his world. Good thing there are sequels!
What a great video! Fantastic list. Children of the New Forest is one of my all-time favourites. I'm a school library assistant and am always so chuffed when a child falls in love with a classic.
I was WAITING for Treasure Island! I'm so glad it made the top of the list. It was my absolute favorite in elementary school!
Thus should have been a list of at least 30 as so many gems were left out!
Anne of Green Gables, Mary Poppins, Emil and the detectives, Swiss Family Robinson, Wizard of Oz, Black Stallion, Prisoner of Zenda, actually it should have been a list of 50!!! 😂
Totally!!!😂 I will make another one.😀👍❤️
you are the reason i love the youtube algorithm! so glad i stumbled upon you! i'm happy to see i've read half of these classics, and dismayed to see that i've only read half of these classics! the remainders are now on my TBR shelf!!! and i'm with you; these are not just for children. in fact, i bet i've read half of my half as an adult..........
and i 100 agree with you - treasure island is one of the best books i've ever read (yes, i read it as an adult 🙃🙃)!!!!
cheers, and can't wait to see what you've got in store for us in 2024!
Great list!! Some are new to me. I've enjoyed reading many classics to my girls. The first I read to them was The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (illustrated brilliantly by Ingpen). They also have loved Heidi, The Phantom Tollbooth, Anne of Green Gables, Betsy-Tacy, the Nutcracker, The Boxcar Children to name a few not on your list. I admit Peter Pan was a little violent for my taste, but maybe when they are older they can read it on their own. Good stuff!
Great books, Dina. Anne of Green Gables is extraordinary. My wife says Emily of the New Moon is brilliant too. I've not read Boxcar Children or Phantom Tollbooth, though I know of them.
@tristanandtheclassics6538 my girls and I were rolling with laughter with The Phantom Tollbooth. I will be sure to put Emily of the New Moon in their minds!
Yes, The Phantom Tollbooth is hilarious for adults and children alike but on different levels
Children are more resilient than we think. In addition, they understand when something is "make-believe" and do not get scared too easily ).
@dianas_Diana_S my kid was screaming at me to stop reading it when Tinkerbell was trying to kill Wendy. So I stopped.
The Secret Garden is my favorite! Love your channel!
It is very good. Thank you.
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Your channel appeared unexpectedly on my screen today. What a wonderful thing! Your enthusiasm and humane approach are a relief from too many similar sites that are snarky or didactic or smarmy. I was reminded by this list of some books I read beginning around age ten--by Howard Pease. I have no idea how I came upon his books about a merchant marine named Tod Moran, who was a crew member on a tramp steamer called the Araby, The characters and situations were riveting to me. I decided to reread most of them a few years ago, soon after my 70th birthday. They were as engaging as I recalled. Pease wrote what used to be called "boys' adventure" stories. He had expectations that his young readers would pay attention to the technical terms about ships. Once introduced and explained, the words were on their own. with the readers. I wish those books were still in print because I would like to share them with readers of all ages.
My favorites as a kid were ‘Half Magic’ and ‘Harriet the Spy’. Read them with my kids.
So glad you promoted Coral Island! I've had it for years and not read! I must lend it to my beloved granddaughter with your encouragement
It was beloved of Victorian children. Most classic authors would have read it themselves.
Great list. Yes, please make another of great children's books. I love 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. Another book I love to reread is The Jungle Book. I love Treasure Island. I need to reread that. Thank you.
Jungle Book was almost on the list. Pretty sure it will make the next one.
The children of Green Knowe- Lucy M. Boston. Ghost story, and fantasy. Other books in the series as well.And you can still visit the house in Hemmingford Grey. Fantastic!
I just checked this out at the library. This and Tom’s Midnight Garden.
Thank you for this video it was fantastic and classic children’s books stay in your memory forever when read as a child and rereading them as an adult is even more rewarding! Greetings from Canada.
My grandson has my dad’s Treasure Island from the 1920’s. It’s a lovely edition.
Thanks for the push! I loved reading with my kids when I was homeschooling, but I find it so hard to read by myself. I ordered Huckleberry Finn, a Scribner Classics version of Robin Hood (have not read either), and a first edition of Bambi which I read out loud to them in elementary school and remember fondly. I will start here, and hopefully get to some of the more “grown up books” after.
That's amazing. In truth, as much as these are sometimes called children's classics, they are enjoyed even more as adults. They are so remarkably written that it is impossible to say that they are children's books. I love reading to my boy, it takes me back to when my mum read to me.
Love this as Children’s books are among my favorites. I would add Anne of Green Gables. I also add Dr. Doolittle. I read this with my son when he was in 5th grade. I was shocked at how good the book was compared to the movie!
Loved Dr Doolittle as a child
Wow! Thank you for this list! I feel illiterate....have only read 6 of the 20. My wife and I just finished reading The Hobbit together and have now started The Swiss Family Robinson by JD Wyss. The goal is to prepare for using these with our grandchildren. This list helps a lot!
I’ve just caught up with this. What a brilliant video 😊. I love children’s literature. I read the Chronicles of Narnia and Charlotte’s Web in 2023. This year I am adding all your other recommendations to my tbr. In fact I’m going to start right now.
Thank you for all your videos Tristan. Love your videos - I enjoy them and they are of great help to me! Love from India!!
Thank you for your support, Sanjai . 😀❤️👍
The Silver Sword (Escape from Warsaw I think in America) was a childhood book that stayed with me. Not sure how well it holds up.
I avoided Watership Down as a kid but I think I will give it a go and see if it would work for my 12 year olds. I’m so glad that there is less gatekeeping around The Hobbit and LotR. Back in the 80s/90s in London it felt very much like a boys club and you had to commit to reading the entire series multiple times before you could have access to the books. Probably not the case but that’s how it felt!
THANK YOUUUUUUU TRISTAN! I haven't even watched the episode yet, but I did ask you for this topic when I wrote my first comment when I subscribed about a month ago! As soon as I saw the topic today, I jumped right into the comments section, to thank you for the subject, whether my request was involved in your choice of dealing with it now, or not. A very heartfelt thank you for having listened and for having taken the time to put this episode together. I was really looking forward to it! And now, off to your episode! I'm impatient to discover it!!!! I'll post another comment after I've watched it! I'm so happy!
This is lovely. Thank you very much for your kindness and positivity. I hope that you like it. 😀❤️
Thank you! I already posted another comment on a new thread. Just to keep your comments flow going. :)
The Walker family are Commander Ted Walker of the Royal Navy, his Australian-born wife Mary Walker and their children, often called the Swallows: John, Susan, Titty, Roger and Bridget.
Beatrix Potter's The Complete Tales. Ohh, I love "Two Bad Mice!" The Velveteen Rabbit is unforgettable too, but maybe considered a 'picture book' for the younger readers to be.
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The Little Prince by Antoine du Saint-Exupery (1943). I've loved that book since grade one - I still have the copy my teacher gave me!!
Oh yes, my very most favorite little book too.
Hey, this is exactly what I was looking for!! I just joined booktube and found younimmediately. Then went scrolling for this vid cause I'm homeschooling next year!!
I wish I had kids JUST so I could homeschool them. ;)
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pierce was a Read-aloud hit with my children.
I just checked this book out at the library!
I can completely relate to the putting legos (or in my case, polly pockets) in small places after the Indian and the Cupboard 😂
Great list, thanks so much for sharing these! There were quite a few that I havent even heard of!
So many of these are where my love of books began 😊
I haven't read all of them, having been an adult for decades but some great choices. I agree with your top choice, Treasure Island was the first classic I read at 8 or 9 years old and I have re-read it many times, it's still fresh and brilliant as ever.
2 of your list I only read as an adult over 30 but really loved, namely Watership Down and Swallows and Amazons and the whole of that series (the latter unfortunately barely known in Germany).
I'm reading Treasure Island to my boy at the moment, and I think I'm enjoying it more than he is. So many of god "children's book" ate just great stories which are equally good for adults.
Some great recommendations here, some I loved as a child, some I discovered and loved as an adult 😊 I have to say that I’m surprised that the Tales of Redwall series (at least Redwall, the first one) didn’t make the list, but I suppose youtube won’t let you upload videos that are 83 years long 😂
I so loved this when I was a girl; I read it over and over again. I think what I loved was how self-sufficient the children became,
surviving without adults.
Charlotte’s Web was the first book I read that I actually enjoyed and got me wanting to read more. Also Black Beauty and The Secret garden were favorites. I didn’t read The Hobbit or Narnia until I was an adult and loved them both. I might check out some of the others I have never read from your list.
Your channel is fantastic!
What lovely a video 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍I read The secret garden on april ( the best choice ever) and it made me feel so positive and happy.
Yes, Please make another one! I've read Bambi which I loved but I wouldn't read to children lol and am reading Peter Pan and Pinocchio which are fantastic. There are so many great childrens classics.
A good range of suggestions.
Thank you 😀
Love this list. As I see others are adding to it, I would suggest "Over Sea, Under Stone" by Susan Cooper (and the others in the "Dark Is Rising" series).
Another wonderful video! Thank you so much. I wholeheartedly concur with your enthusiasm for The Horse and His Boy. Fabulous title, deceptively deep story. Black Beauty is too often glibly dismissed (by people who've never read it) as a book about a horse for children. Once we breach the 20th century, I also adore A Wizard of Earthsea and Lord of the Flies.
I would n t class Lord of the Flies as a children book. Brutal!
@@yvonnehayton6753 Which is why 12/13/14 year olds should read it.
@zenocrate4040. Agreed. I meant younger children. It's certainly a great book.
@@yvonnehayton6753 Yes, it's not bednight reading for 6 year olds! I wouldn't want to explain Simon's encounter or Roger's affinity for cruelty to young children. :D
Great recommendations of children's books which I hope to read....except one..
Ooo that's made me curious. Which one? 😀
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 The one written by Lewis Caroll which initially was titled Alice's adventures under ground.....
Wow, this is a great list for me and my children! Thank you for this great video! 🫶🏻 greetings from Austria 🇦🇹
You are so kind 😀❤️
An excellent list! Please do another video.
I've just found your channel today, and love this list.Several on your list were books I read as a child and have read to my own children. Looking forward to trying some of the others. I would love to hear more suggestions from you.
So many lovely memories reading some of these. Just reread Black Beauty same copy that we had as children. Narnia was my sons favorite and he read them over and over. I read them all one summer when I found a volume with the whole series and Illustrations. Watership down I read as adult a year or two ago. The Hobbit! Didnt know about this until adult and have read it many times now. Thank you for a wonderful overview of these books. Some I look forward to reading in my golden year upon me now.
What a great list! Man, I have a vivid memory of my Mom and me both crying our eyes out as she read the end of Charlotte’s Web.😅 And I loved Peter Pan when I eventually read it in my late teens. Agreed, there’s a LOT more to that book than the Disney movie might make you think.
Some of my other favorites are:
The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende. Everyone’s seen the movie, but the book is on another level. Talk about deep! But accessible and bursting with imagination! One of his other translated works, Momo, is just as good. That one is about the concept of time.
In Canada there’s a series of boarding school books that everyone grows up reading, called the MacDonald Hall series, or the Bruno and Boots series. The first book was written by Gordon Korman when he was still a kid in highschool, but the quality is surprisingly solid! The whole series is hilarious, and my sister and I still reread it every few years. I have memories of my Mom crying with laughter over parts of these books, much like you.😜
And I also have to mention the Jacob Two-Two books, by Mordecai Richler. For slightly younger readers, those books are weird, humorous, and slightly dark around the edges. Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang was my favourite as a kid.😋👍
I've not read Charlotte's Web since I was a kid. That book broke my heart! I always wanted to watch The Neverending Story but somehow never got around to it. I did not even know it was a book until I heard it mentioned on Booktube. I will have to get to it sometime! The older I get, the more I am gravitating back toward children's books. I don't know quite what that says about me. But there you have it.
Wonderful video. I read so many of these books to my children and now look forward to reading them to my grandchildren. I hope you decide to do a part two. Thank you.
It's such a rewarding activity. Do you have any favourites?
The Wizard of Oz, the Hardy Boys (original series), the Boxcars Kids, and Tom Sawyer.
Just finished Peter Pan,Treasure Island, and The Indian in the Cupboard. The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrrobe is on my table ,by my teading glasse.s . I bought very inexpensive used copies and annotated and summarized in a notebook ,too. It was easy I wanted to think more about these stories. 🌟 Since I started reading these "kids" books a few weeks ago I have better conversations, better dreams,and more empathy. Hope you try it ! Start with ANY one here. And consider waiting a day or two to digest one before diving into the next..
Thanks for a great list.I've read most of them with a few new ones to go on TBR.
My favorite children's book is The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater
I've not read that one, so thanks for the recommendation 😀
20:19 oh my dear Lord!! This book stole my heart. I might weep.
This list is fantastic Tristan. I wish I’d thought about them years ago. My son was born in 1997 and I read him all of the Harry Potter books as they were published. He was spellbound (sorry) but I wish now that I had read him all the ones on your list. Although he is in his 20s now, I’m going to buy him Treasure Island for Christmas. Keep up the good work. Peter
Thank you for this list!
You are welcome, Natalie. 😀❤️👍
my favorite is "wrinkle in time" by madeline l' Engle
I can't wait to read these with my children. I grew up not being read to, and I want different for my kids.
That's the spirit! And don't get discouraged if they don't immediately fall in love with it. Eventually, they'll love the attention and there will be that story that captures their imagination. Time with your kids is never wasted, even during those fidgety years when you think nothing is getting through to them. It is! Your voice, your physical closeness, your undivided attention - it's all impacting them in a deep, powerful way, even when they are too young to realize it yet.
@@Yesica1993 Thank you, that was so encouraging. Thank you for taking time to spread love to a stranger.
@@juniperwool You are very welcome!
Hiedi by Johanna Spyri. I read an abridged version to my 5 year old. She loved it and so did I
You’ve reminded me of so many old favorites! (I was lucky to have parents who both lived to read aloud ☺️). The Little Princess us also really good, Anne of Green Gables, and any books by the Swedish writer Astrid Lingren. My own favorite is probably Ronia the Robbers daughter (which I still reread). Also, Swallows and Amazons is whole series of maybe fifteen books. It was due to them that my eleven year old self learned semaphore and Morse code 😆
On our first date,together,😊 not first ever,a week ago ,we ended up at a used book store. I mentioned that I am reading children's classics this summer. My friend was enthusiastic and said he is doing the same.! He loaned me Peter Pan and I loaned him Treasure Island. The next one on our list is The Silver Chair by C.S.Lewis I'm .looking forward to the hilarious and terrifying way the giants prepare for the autumn fair . Tristan,thank you for these suggestions.! I plan to read at least five of them. My manfriend will be receiving a thimble for sharing Peter Pan. Is this too.much info, ya'll?
This is charming. Thanks for sharing. When I asked my wife out, I did it with a bouquet of roses and a small, carved, wooden box, inside which was a silver thimble and a little scroll with that paragraph from the book written in it.
I carried a bunch of thimbles with me for some time after that. I'd slip one into her hand, or leave one in the saucer of her coffee in a coffee shop when she had stepped away. Love that we think alike. You are a true romantic. 😀❤️
I love the Robert Heinlein juveniles: Space Cadet, Tunnel in the Sky, Citizen of the Galaxy, The Rolling Stones, Farmer in the Sky, Red Planet, Between Planets, Starman Jones, Rocket Ship Galileo, Have Space Suit-Will Travel, The Star Beast, and Time for the Stars. Don't let the silliness of some of those titles put you off - they're excellent.
Strange may sound, but I read the Wuthering Hights when age of nine. Love that book. In my mind, then, if you find a passion like this, you should run away with the person you love.
In childhood, read Oliver Twist and felt a strong emphaty for a fellow child from this book. That was a source of extreme fear and happiness for me.
Wuthering Heights at 9!!! Wow, that's impressive. Though I can imagine that the raw energy is quite thrilling for a youngster. 😀❤️