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Deep Black
24-04-2009, 10:31 AM
As has cropped up in another thread what have people got to say / recommend as regards child & young adult SF & Fantasy books?

I have a 1 year old daughter & any good stuff (new or old) will probably crop up for birthday/Christmas as the years go by.

I managed to miss most of the decent ones when I was young. What classics do people remember & what's available now days?


I recently read Mr Monday by Garth Nix & found it most enjoyable.
There is obviously Philip Pullman's - Dark Materials & JK Rowling's Potter books.
Terry Pratchett has a veriety of Diskworld & non-Disk books out there.
For younger children there's Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events

For older stuff (as Red King pointed out) we have:
Ursula K. Le Guin's - Earthsea
Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen & The Owl Service
John Christopher - The Tripods trilogy
Peter Dickinson - The Changes trilogy
I remember The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
rac
24-04-2009, 11:11 AM
I'd go for The New Heroes series by Michael Carroll.
Mike's a good friend of mine- but don't let that put you off! The books are genuinely brilliant.
http://www.iol.ie/~carrollm/qp/main.htm
Deep Black
24-04-2009, 08:31 PM
Have read about them in the Sproutlore mag, but never read any of the books
RedKing
24-04-2009, 10:35 PM
My daughter and most of her school friends in the 11 - 13 bracket are devouring the Twilight books, but they are very much a female read, IMHO.

http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss47/IMDonger/twilight-books.jpg
198505
25-04-2009, 08:41 PM
You need to up that bracket there Red, my oldest is 16 and those books are much read, and the dvd of Twilight is much watched.
jag
25-04-2009, 10:51 PM
What about Roald Dahl? Some of his stuff is pretty out-there.
The Hobbitt was a good read when I was a teenager.
The Conan novels are great as well.
RedKing
26-04-2009, 10:35 AM
You need to up that bracket there Red, my oldest is 16 and those books are much read, and the dvd of Twilight is much watched.

The bracket was just for Caitlin's friends - one of our friends daughters managed to get her mum and her mum's friends into reading them and they are very much over 16!

The Twilight DVD is much watched chez Red too. It's a rotating list of Twilight, Mama Mia and High School Musical III :mad:
198505
26-04-2009, 04:15 PM
The Twilight DVD is much watched chez Red too. It's a rotating list of Twilight, Mama Mia and High School Musical III :mad:

Hahahahahaha!

Sorry you poor poor man, might I suggest large amounts of alcohol ?
Deep Black
26-04-2009, 06:10 PM
Would that improve the tat?
Or just numb the pain?
RedKing
26-04-2009, 07:47 PM
Hahahahahaha!

Sorry you poor poor man, might I suggest large amounts of alcohol ?

Have tried that, now moving onto sticking rusty pins in my eyes... :eek:
Deep Black
26-04-2009, 08:02 PM
Well that certainly won't numb the pain.
But it will definatly inprove the tat :)
198505
26-04-2009, 10:26 PM
Have tried that, now moving onto sticking rusty pins in my eyes... :eek:

Is it really that bad? I just refuse to watch owing to 2 whining teenagers, even if 1 is only 10, is enough I don't want to watch a film about whiny teenagers that also don't get over their teenage angst.
RedKing
26-04-2009, 11:33 PM
Which one?

Twilight - teenage girl mooning over hunky vamp for a long time. Nothing happens.
Mama Mia - teenage girl wants to find which one of three guys is her dad. Pierce Brosnan 'sings' as does Julie Walters.
HSM III - lots of mooning from teenage girls and boys. Much singing and dancing, of a sort.

All different paving stones in the path to hell and damnation...