Books I'm Giving to My Kids to Read

I was a big reader when I was a kid. In Sixth grade, we had an assignment to list all the books we'd read that year-- my list was 80 books long and three in process. Even now, I'll devour a book in a few days if I have the time, and I was always getting in trouble for reading at work.

The upshot of all this is that there are books I love so much, I want my kids to read them when they're young so they can be as important to them as they are to me. Here they are, in no particular order:

- Wise Child by Monica Furlong

- UnLunDun by China Mieveille

- The Hero and the Crown AND The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

- The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

- Charlotte's Web

- Alice in Wonderland AND Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol

- Tottie

- A Hawk in Silver by Mary Gentle

- The Boy With the Bronze Axe

Slightly older reccommendations:

- DragonFlight by Anne McCaffrey

- Curse of the Kings by Victoria Holt

- Deerskin AND Spindle's End AND Sunshine by Robin McKinley

- Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (and, really, anything by Gaiman)

- Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

- Godstalk by PC Hodgell

I'm sure there's more, but that's off the top of my head. For posterity.