Recommend stories!

[skysailor]

This isn't a recommendation so much as a request for recommendations, although I don't have much hope of getting anything... <.<

Elder Child has expressed a preference for "books that are like real life", because she likes to imagine actually being in the places in the book. Unfortunately, all of the kidlit books I know of and/or enjoyed which aren't fantasy or scifi are extremely dated to the point of being historical (or, not much different from fantasy, for her perspective).

Does anyone have any suggestions for books for kids? I think books about travelling or moving to a new place would be particularly good.

Her current favorite books are the Kudo Kids series, if that helps. She went through every single Oz book that we have and read them multiple times and was really interested in them but then she went back to the Kudo Kids and told me she likes "real life" books better than fantasy, so.

Wow I feel like an antique, but... maybe there have been new Babysitter's Club books? Or Scholastic Book Club still exists, it might have good recs. They always had excellent taste when I was a kid.

[thiskurt]

but you might enjoy Dom Casmurro?

Ok, unreliable narrator, dark comedy, sounds like it might work.

If nothing else, you'll be able to say you've joined in what's arguably the biggest debate in Brazilian literature (did Capitu cheat on Bentinho, or was Bentinho just a jealous paranoid jacakass? the longest thread blah blah blah).

Uh-oh. Do these debates get violent?

O Alienista (The Psychiatrist/the Alienist) might also interest you.

This is the one that I was considering based on my old 'when in doubt try the shortest book' trick.

Of course, I've no idea how enjoyable most of Machado's works are to someone with no background in Brazilian culture, much less late Imperial Brazilian culture and history, but those three books should be reasonably accessible regardless.

I did quite enjoy the end notes for some of that stuff here.

[InspectorCaracal]

Wow I feel like an antique, but... maybe there have been new Babysitter's Club books? Or Scholastic Book Club still exists, it might have good recs. They always had excellent taste when I was a kid.

oh yeah those are good suggestions

[skysailor]

Aaaaaa this is /fantastic/, pitch-perfect and full of happy feels (after the setup is complete, anyway). Harry Potter meets the Addams Family (pre-Hogwarts) https://archiveofourown.org/works/21166118

[Bee]

Howl's Moving Castle is, as you may already know, my favorite Ghibli movie. It turns out the book is delightful in its own way, and so are the sequels! :D

[Bee]

I’ve been listening to the audiobook of HMC again and yep, still an absolute delight

[Bee]

Here's a list of children's books featuring neurodivergent parents (including autism, depression, dementia): https://www.instagram.com/reel/Czj0y5Jv ... M2MDRjNw==

Could be worth checking out for the children in your life, whoever you are :)

[Bee]

Hey folks, there's a Ursula K Le Guin bundle with 30 titles: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/wiza ... guin-books