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Reading
I haven't made a list of the books I've read to Sebastian in a long time.
The best thing I ever did was keep reading to and talking with Sebastian every night at bedtime. I'd recommend it to every parent. Those years of reading and talking have given us a huge amount of shared experience which has given us an incredible connection.
I've heard a lot about the problems that parents have with their teenaged children. I won't pretend that we've never had any problems, and I'm not a perfect (single) parent - but his adolescence has been easier and less conflicted than ANY other child's I've known.
He's 18 now, and I still read to him every night. I'm sure that he'll read to his kids some day, too. And they will be better for it.
Here's what we've read that I remember:
- Mister Penny by Marie Hall Ets
- The Three Little Horses by Piet Wurm (series)
- Otto Goes To Sea
- The Chronicles of Prydain
- The Hobbit
- Doctor Dolittle (pretty much the whole series - the originals, not the censored versions)
- The Narnia books
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- The Teddy Bear Habit
- The Great Brain series
- The Portmanteau Book
- D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
- Alice In Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
- The Wizard of Oz
- How to Eat Fried Worms
- The Runaway Robot
- Lost Race of Mars
- Mister Penny (and the sequels)
- The Adventures of Phunsi
- The Lord of the Rings
- All of the Ethshar books of Lawrence Watt-Evans, as well as his Lords of Dus and Obsidian Chronicles series
- Rudyard Kipling's Kim
- I Claudius
- All of the Heinlein juveniles except rocket ship Galileo because it sucks
- The Catcher In the Rye
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- Make Way For Ducklings
- The Twenty-One Balloons
- The Henry Price books
- The Mad Scientists Club books
- A lot of the Three Investigators series
- The Door Into Summer
- Starship Troopers
- Black and Blue Magic
- Several of the Black Stallion books