Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

chewmylegoff

purch wrote: »

Fifty Sh.............:eek:

Hahaha!

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lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

Could the NP recommend books for a Precocious 7 year old? She's reading Fantastic Mr Fox and has. Devoured it in little over 24 hours. She has a huge collection of Roald Dahl, Of which the journey is starting, and she's read some Jacqueline Wilson but she asked me what authors I liked, but I only remember Roald Dahl and Judy Blume, and Point Horrors but they're way too old. I was definitely a precocious 7 year old, however. She has Korky Paul books which she hasn't shown much interest in - I don't know if they were hard or not her thing.

I promised her a book for swallowing nasty medicine.

Cs lewis. She is young enough to still believe a little!

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Fraid not, unless George has been drinking a bit too much booze for the last couple of years, and hasn't done any upper body work basically ever.

Dh went to the gym today :eek:

He is fed up of his desk figure and winter weight not having gone this summer. I begged him not to do too much upperbody work because it will impair his riding.:)

silvercar

Doozergirl wrote: »

Could the NP recommend books for a Precocious 7 year old? She's reading Fantastic Mr Fox and has. Devoured it in little over 24 hours. She has a huge collection of Roald Dahl, Of which the journey is starting, and she's read some Jacqueline Wilson but she asked me what authors I liked, but I only remember Roald Dahl and Judy Blume, and Point Horrors but they're way too old. I was definitely a precocious 7 year old, however. She has Korky Paul books which she hasn't shown much interest in - I don't know if they were hard or not her thing.

I promised her a book for swallowing nasty medicine.

Lemmony Snicket (may be too old for her), Dr Seuss (for amusement rather than development).

misskool

Doozergirl wrote: »

Could the NP recommend books for a Precocious 7 year old? She's reading Fantastic Mr Fox and has. Devoured it in little over 24 hours. She has a huge collection of Roald Dahl, Of which the journey is starting, and she's read some Jacqueline Wilson but she asked me what authors I liked, but I only remember Roald Dahl and Judy Blume, and Point Horrors but they're way too old. I was definitely a precocious 7 year old, however. She has Korky Paul books which she hasn't shown much interest in - I don't know if they were hard or not her thing.

I promised her a book for swallowing nasty medicine.

She could read the Hobbit, I think I was reading that at about 8 or 9 (but English was my second language). Otherwise, things like Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys.

silvercar

LIR, you can call a non-emergency ambulance for transport. That way you get taken in but you don't take a service someone may need more than you.

vivatifosi

Doozergirl wrote: »

Could the NP recommend books for a Precocious 7 year old? She's reading Fantastic Mr Fox and has. Devoured it in little over 24 hours. She has a huge collection of Roald Dahl, Of which the journey is starting, and she's read some Jacqueline Wilson but she asked me what authors I liked, but I only remember Roald Dahl and Judy Blume, and Point Horrors but they're way too old. I was definitely a precocious 7 year old, however. She has Korky Paul books which she hasn't shown much interest in - I don't know if they were hard or not her thing.

I promised her a book for swallowing nasty medicine.

There's only one Roald Dahl sadly, if libraries could clone him I think they would, he is still so very popular. Other authors that you might like: Anne Fine, perhaps Allan Ahlberg or some of the smaller and lighter Michael Morpurgo books. If she's interested in more traditional fiction, she might like E Nesbit, Frances Hodgeson Burnett, Louisa Mae Alcott and the Narnia Chronicles which are pitched at about that age group. Enid Blyton is another perennial. If you buy Blyton, check for a small TM mark above her name as she is now being used as a trademark and ghost-written by other authors. Usborne do some nice retellings of classical tales as well, which she might like as they tend to be on nicer quality paper.

I suggest avoiding the big formulaic series by Sue Bentley, Daisy Meadows (not a real person) etc... as you could end up having to buy hundreds of the things, all with very similar stories.

It's a shame I'm not at work, I'd be able to go over, look at a shelf and reel of a list of books. This is much harder when you are at home and a long way from being 8 years old:o.

ETA: there are also some beautiful picture books for older children that are pitched at that age group, rather than those such as the Gruffalo that you would read to younger children. The illustrations are just sublime.

zagubov

Doozergirl wrote: »

Could the NP recommend books for a Precocious 7 year old? She's reading Fantastic Mr Fox and has. Devoured it in little over 24 hours. She has a huge collection of Roald Dahl, Of which the journey is starting, and she's read some Jacqueline Wilson but she asked me what authors I liked, but I only remember Roald Dahl and Judy Blume, and Point Horrors but they're way too old. I was definitely a precocious 7 year old, however. She has Korky Paul books which she hasn't shown much interest in - I don't know if they were hard or not her thing.

I promised her a book for swallowing nasty medicine.

Madeleine L'Engle's stuff like "A Wrinkle in Time", stuff by Garner or Morpurgo but maybe a bit too mature.

P L Travers Mary Poppins books maybe?

Have an explore aound this page from thread 5! Kid's books were discussed about then.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

LIR, you can call a non-emergency ambulance for transport. That way you get taken in but you don't take a service someone may need more than you.

Yeah, tried that, nope. In fcat, while you were more importantly engaged i had a horrid night where i tried that and an ambulance both and was told they weren't taxis. I asked them if they wanted me to drive from rural to city :eek:

My gp says to go ambulance if i do it and tell them if they start bleating that i have just called him and he told me to call an ambulance.

Even those IN the system aren't bothering ti apologise for it.:(

lostinrates

Yes, i loved nesbit when i was about that age.

Also, the borrowers maybe?

The little white horse. Its 'big' but so beautiful, every little girl should get to read these things while they can dream them as real.


I remember the saslers wells ballet books and drina ballet books were popular at the school i came back to at eight, i never read the former, but the latter were a bit desperate.

Dodie smith, might be a bit easy? 101 dalmations and the starlight barking?

Laura ingells wilder



There are SO many wonderful books for girls.