I don't remember being affected by any non-pc elements of her books, I don't even remember noticing them. I think a lot of them are probably fine and may be a good choice.peter wrote:- and a good story remains a good story, pc or otherwise.
I guess a lot depends on her reading level...at that age I was reading things like The Hobbit, The Hardy Boys (which obviously makes me think of Nancy Drew) and Willard Price. And yes, Enid Blyton.
Brian Jacques Redwall books are great, but may be a little difficult. But if there was one thing that got me into reading, it was the fact that my parents read to me. A lot. And of course they read themselves, all of which made me want to do it too.
The Redwall books would be great to read to her, if she can't manage them herself yet.
--A
) but the former is new to me and crystalises what of course I must have seen from numerous readings, but had never so much as thought of in that explicit way before. (Incidentally, my love of TWITW started in my early twenties after I heard an Oxford don on the radio saying that to get a 'feel' of the 'Zeitgeist' of upper (middle) class Edwardian Britain you could do no better than to read this book. I did so and was hooked from then on)