Present advice....

[Sam Slater]

Soon to be 11 year old niece..... She likes to read -fortunately- but only those Jacqueline Wilson stories.

I was thinking of getting a few classics like Gulliver's Travels & Robinson Crusoe......but RC is pretty much of a slow starter, so unsure on that one.

Any ideas as I've not been much of a fictional reader (though I'm trying to change my ignorance)?

[Pervert]

How about Black Beauty. It's an engaging tale, and a lot of young girls go ga-ga for horses.

[steve56]

Heidi

[randyandy]

As someone who has just done the same.

Can I suggest book tokens and taking her to the store.

[Sam Slater]

Cheers guys, they're on my list of possibilities.

As for book tokens: She'll buy more Jacqueline Wilson stories and I want to encourage her to read a few classics. I don't want to have to force her in a headlock in Waterstones because she won't listen to reason! !laugh!

I may get her a few classics what I feel will give her some appreciation of literature from the 'olden days', as she'd probably say, as well has a book token so that she can get something which is her choice. A decent compromise.

[andy at handiwork]

There's a lot to be said for letting a child read whatever they like as long as they are reading and enjoying it. More often than not they move on eventually to what their elders want them to read.

[Sam Slater]

There's no enforcement going on. I buy the books, and it's upto my neice whether she reads them or not.

I can't do right for doing wrong lately!

[Sam Slater]

Oh dear,

I start a thread about getting my niece a few books for her birthday and within 7 posts I'm being compared to a raping murderer.

This vendetta against me is so unjust...........and yet, adversity will strengthen me.