BOOK REVIEW reviewing children's classics from an EL point of view

[cheerymom]

wonderful suggestion Mandabplus3 !   , I see that most of the reviews were for ages above 3 . Would like to know all of your suggestions for 2 year old please ! , we read thru Dr.Seuss books for stories but now looking for a difference.., awaiting your opinions ! , thanks to all moms ! 

[Mandabplus3]

The first classics to try of you are looking for a chapter book are the fairy books by Andrew Lang.
Their are quite a few of them. The Red fairy Book. The Blue Fairy book. The yellow Fairy book. Etc. these books are all the traditional fairy stories we all heard as kids from Cinderella to Rose Red in their original style. Beautiful books and one of my daughters favourites. They are all available free to download from guttenburg. These are ages 2 and up or a 1 year old who is a good listener perhaps they do contain some graphic bits and lots of morals. Remember in the original fairy tales the good guys often eat the big bad wolf and such. A preread might be worth it for more sensitive kids. I think some of the books have more basic stories in them, sort of like levelled stories but I can confirm just now.

Also We REALLY loved the Magic Faraway Tree series. Get the large hard cover books which has full colour pictures on almost every page. Each chapter is a story in its own so its great for the youngest crowd. These are for age 0 to 11 and I don't remember any religious comments.

[cheerymom]

Thank you Mandabplus3 ! for wonderful suggestions . well said on the pre read note my kid is so sensitive for that matter , Here i come  Magic Faraway Tree... 

[khatty]

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Minimum age, would be a great story to read aloud starting a birth, the death can be glossed over until a child is ready.
Max age, adult, I enjoyed it.
My daughter read a few abridged versions starting at age 4, which I think helped make the full text easier for her to grasp and read a year later.
Basic story of 4 girls growing up. One death, but it isn't graphic, and isn't dwelled upon.
Excellent vocab and sentence structure. Has some historical content. Follows a little bit of the fairy tale idea of girl grows up, meets boy, lives happily ever after, but still has lots of other ideas to make it worth the read.

When struggling to find age appropriate content - that is find a book that is challenging for a 6 year old to read that has age appropriate content - Little Women is a very reasonable choice.

[khatty]

1001 Arabian Nights - the newest translations in 4 books

Minimum Age - at least 12 and I might recommend older. These books are an amazing adult read, impressive vocab, incredible sentence structure, and the stories are an impressive array of ideas. These books will challenge you and keep you very entertained. However, be warned they are very very graphic, gruesome, and sexual. For the most part, the original translations are NOT kid stories. I also would not suggest reading them aloud to a child, there are just way too many words and ideas which need to be changed and skimmed over, that it makes the difficult for a child to follow along (I tried, but I just couldn't do it!).

If your child is requesting to read these, make sure you find a child's version, and even then be careful. I found an older Children's Companion Arabain Nights, and it still included the words fornication, behead, and sodomy within the first few pages.

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