FOAK: Books for (bright) 7-yr-old

IMO, "War Crimes for the Home" is both her best and saddest book.

 

not read "Hocus Pocus" [1] may have to look it up.

[1] though my old vario-genre band in the '80s did a cover of the song
of the same name.

 

It's not his only book.

Breakfast of Champions, as mentioned by darsers, is pretty darn good.
Galapagos and Cat's Cradle are also good but much more straightforward.

 

Never read the book but the movie starring Bruce Willis is strangely
compelling viewing. I've had to watch it a few times to let it sink in.

 

His autobiography "Slide Rule" goes into quite some detail about the
R100/R101. By all accounts it turned him quite anti-big-government - you
can see echos of that philosophy in a lot of his books.

 

Ender's Game.

 

do 7-year-olds know up from down?

 

It'll certainly teach him an interesting definition of bugger.

 

Cheers - I'm reading "The Help" at the moment, so I'll get that for
the stack.

 

I remember it: it centred around a struggling engineer who'd developed a
new type of aero engine. It wasn't Shute, though, It was Air Bridge by
Hammond Innes.

 

<Tips hat>

 

I liked it. It's been so long that I can't recall the opening scene,
though. I don't recall liking the sequel (if Three Men on the Bummel
was truly a sequel) quite as much.

 

The doctor's prescription.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy

There's a funny thing. I *loved* the Narnia stories when I was a kid,
but I *never* got the christian references. Probably because I was
(thank god!) raised in an essentially atheist household.

I was also hopelessly addicted to Biggles and the Jennings books.

 

Huh. Bloody Commies.

 

I know a bloke who reckons that the Narnia books are actually about the
planets.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

<G> Cnut.

 

Christian references?

 

Oh, yes, I remember that. I just didn't realize it was that early on
in the book.

In fact I was thinking about it only a few days ago when I replied to
one of darsy's posts: I was wittering on about reading symptoms from a
Wiki link.

 

Your loss.