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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
I love all the Dahl kid-oriented books -- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, James and the Giant Peach, Danny the Champion of the World..... I'm just worried that maybe they'll be too hard for a kid not yet in pre-K.
OTOH -- maybe I should just have at it and see. I could read them to her and her big bro together, perhaps.
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there are levels to them- matilda migth be tough for her, but chocolate factory is pretty basic- then at 8 or so, the perfect topper being his autobios, Boy and Flying Solo, which you each MUST read to your kids- and Boy goes a long way to explaining the hateful adults that infest each of his stories-
