Comments | kattahj: more children's books

kattahj

more children's books

Feb 26, 2008 23:59

Continuing my book recs from my Swedish list of books, here are 20 non-Swedish children's authors I think you should read if you haven't already. Like before, they're ordered by debute date.

( From Edith Nesbit to Kirsten Miller. )

lois lowry, Jørn Jensen, niki daly, the wind on the moon, eric linklater, michelle magorian, seven little australians, roddy doyle, lynne reid banks, diana wynne jones, kirsten miller, michael ende, book talk, cynthia voigt, russell stannard, k m peyton, edith nesbit, randa abdel-fattah, hilary mckay, ian falconer, eva ibbotson, rosemary harris, flambards, kiki strike, ethel turner

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kattahj February 26 2008, 23:57:20 UTC

(and Randa Abdel-Fattah, 'cause she's Australian and the title of her first book is just fabulous!)

It's really a brilliant title - together with the cover image, it explains exactly what kind of book it is.

Have you read Tell Me if the Lovers are Losers?

I have, but it was ages ago. As I recall, I liked it, but it didn't make much of an impression.

nd just because you didn't mention them, I have to ask whether you've read Lois Lowry's Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye? And there's one set in WWII, with a Danish family ferrying Jews to safety in Sweden, but I can't remember the name of it. I think it won the Newberry when I was in high school.

I've read the second one, though I don't remember it much. I don't think I've read the first one.

And just to attempt to rec back to you, have you ever come across Brian Caswell's books?

Nope. What are they about?

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kattahj February 27 2008, 07:21:58 UTC

It sounds really cool. Unfortunately, a search in the national library catalogue says that one of his books is available from one library in the other end of the country. So this is a "save this tip until I have money" kind of thing.

eponine119 February 27 2008, 00:39:37 UTC

Great post! I love about half of these, and need to check out the others.

I can never think about E. Nesbit without thinking of Edward Eager, who wrote the same sort of books about kids and magic adventures and kind of referred to her quite a bit.

And I just picked up some well-loved Noel Streatfeild over the weekend, and I'm missing the rest of my old collection.

kattahj February 27 2008, 07:23:48 UTC

I've never read Edward Eager - a quick search shows that only two of his books are available in Swedish libraries, and that's all as reference books.

Noel Streatfeild is cool, but I can't say I remember her well enough to list her.