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We've been reading The Princess in Black as a family before bedtime. My six year old really likes it! But we're almost finished with the series (except for the one coming out in September). Do you have any recs for similar series we can look into?

Not exactly what you asked for, but for that age, I love a classic like Jenny & The Cat Club (NYRB edition) and 3 Tales of My Father's Dragon -- they are multi-stories in one book rather than series per se, but as such, great for bedtime reading. :-)

I love these chapter book series - none of them are JUST like Princess In Black -- but they might be similarly appealing:

The "Kitty" series starts with Kitty and the Moonlight Rescue - she's a girl by day, a cat superhero by night! I think there are 12 books in the series.

Zoey and Sassafrass - it's about a girl who helps magical animals using science - and there are like 10 books in the series I believe.

Dory Fantasmagory - About a kid with a BIG BIG imagination - I believe there are six in the series so far - very funny

A notch more sophisticated than those, the Bad Princesses series by Jennifer Torres is really fun, too (and I'm not just saying that because I repped them!) - - It's more Young MG than chapter book, but fine to read aloud for younger. There are three books out.

I'm so curious if she ends up reading any of these what she'll like! :D

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Hello! What would you recommend as a ‘must read classic? I used to be one of those kids who devoured one book a week, and I have been slowly getting back into reading, I’d like to include classic literature. Maybe something a bit more accessible for people with short attention spans, just to start 😂

genuinely my must-read classic is the epic of gilgamesh. it's the only story you need and we keep retelling it. i personally read the herbert mason translation (gilgamesh: a verse narrative) and had a wonderful time, was narratively unzipped etc., however i think the translation by stephen mitchell is generally the best regarded but this may be me talking out of my ass if any of my followers know more about gilgamesh than i do please chime in. either way, it's not very long.

i'd also recommend:

my antonia (1918) - short, delicious gender, beautiful descriptions of nebraska but does lose a little bit of its momentum [review]

lady audley's secret (1862) - this one is long, but it's pretty pulpy and readable for [review]

passing (1929) - short, precise, masterful mimetic desire and mimetic rivalry :^) i read the penguin vitae edition which has a great cover and great supplementary material but all the penguin vitaes use tiny, cramped typesetting so they're hard for me to read [review]

the street (1946) - also longer but the plot moves like an olympic sprinter. it's very easy to read large chunks in one sitting then come up for air like what the FUCK [review]

if you want more classics that are relatively accessible AND off the beaten path, i highly recommend checking out the new york review of books classics series which republishes classics that have fallen out of print. one of my favourite books of all time, cassandra at the wedding by dorothy baker, i first read as an nyrb classics.

here's my classics tag on storygraph for more recs and reviews. i hope you find something you like and please come back if you do

[bookpillows]

Publishers who “specialize” in reissuing classics are a dime a dozen these days. Archipelago, Vintage’s Modern Classics series, and NYRB kids are the only ones in my opinion doing anything interesting but even the branding does a lot of the heavy lifting here.

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NYRB Fall Preview 2020: NYRB Kids

Last up in our fall preview are two classics from our Children’s Collection, newly reissued as paperbacks in our NYRB Kids series.

Mary Chase, Loretta Mason Potts (September)

Ten-year-old Colin Mason is convinced he’s the smartest, best, and oldest kid in his family. Then, much to his horror, he discovers he’s not the eldest at all: he has a glum and gangly older sister, Loretta Mason Potts. Soon, Colin is secretly following Loretta down a hidden tunnel that leads from a bedroom closet to a whole other world—where she is mysteriously beloved by all, no matter how rude she is.

Eleanor Farjeon, The Little Bookroom (October)

This selection of twenty-seven favorite stories selected by Eleanor Farjeon herself are heartwarming and delightful. Inside you’ll find powerful—and sometimes exceedingly silly—monarchs, and commoners who are every bit their match; musicians and dancers who live for art rather than earthly reward; and a goldfish who wants to marry the moon.

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Books read September 2020

Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett

I blind read this because I’m such a stan for NYRB Classics and have only read one book I disliked in their collection. Usually everything I read is an undisputed gem but this was a bit more... middle of the road. It’s almost entirely written in dialogue so it’s almost like a play and takes place during the late 1800s in an aristocratic household and examines morality and the upstairs/downstairs aspects of the people living there. It’s a very, very clever book. Almost too clever because everyone is always spitting out these interesting and pithy lines that take awhile to absorb. I did enjoy it and am kind of surprised BBC hasn’t adapted it into a miniseries. This is exactly the type of thing they’d love. 

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli 

This was amazing. I loved this so much. Narrated (mostly) by an unnamed Mexican immigrant living in the U.S. this details the breakdown of her marriage in a roadtrip with her kids weaving together the story of the last uncolonized indigenous Americans with the story of undocumented children coming to the U.S. A towering intellectual work of genius. It reminded me so much in structure of another of my favourite books, The History of Love and I REFUSE to believe that that’s a coincidence. 

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

A deceptively simple seeming novella about a man who lives most of his life in solitude and experiences one great huge loss to his life when his wife and daughter die in a forest fire. This is one of those slice of life stories about an un-extraordinary person whose life is so touchingly recounted by the author. Loved it very much. 

Anyway I read three books this month! In normal times this would be embarrassingly few but I’ve struggled with reading since covid quarantine. Who knew all I needed to start reading again was for the library to end unlimited renewals and give me a deadline for returning books?  

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#3yrsago The 13 Clocks: Grimm's Fairytales meet The Phantom Tollbooth

I discovered The 13 Clocks by reading Neil Gaiman's introduction to the 2008 New York Review of Books edition (which I found in The View from the Cheap Seats, a massive collection of Gaiman's nonfiction), where he calls it "Probably the best book in the world" -- how could I resist?

Thurber published this book in 1950, and it has been a classic ever since, albeit not a major one -- I'd only dimly heard of it before finding Gaiman's endorsement. It's a curious blend of Dr Seuss, The Phantom Tollbooth, and Grimm's fairytales, with gorgeously silly language that makes the book an absolute delight to read aloud.

Which is exactly what I did: I read this aloud last weekend on a drive to and from the beach, to my eight year old daughter and three of her adults (my wife and my parents) who happened to be in the car. One thing I noticed straightaway: every time I stopped reading, my daughter insisted that I start again. This is the litmus test for any kids' book, and Thurber passed it with flying colors.

In Gaiman's introduction, he recounts the experience of reading the book aloud to a distressed friend who telephoned him in the night. The reading didn't make things any better, objectively, but his friend "was laughing, baffled and delighted, her problems forgotten."

This I find easy to believe.

If you can imagine Jabberwocky carried to book length, with some of the funniest lines from Humpty Dumpty, in Suessian scansion, you'd get close to what makes this book so great. It's got jokes for adults that sail over kids' heads, and jokes for kids that they will laugh at with their grownups. Though the plot -- a princess whose hand can only be won from her evil uncle through the undertaking of impossible tasks -- is simple enough, the glorious, glittering prose makes it more than its mere underlying tale. Who could resist the Golux, a possibly imaginary helpmeet with an indescribable hat who tells our hero:

“Half the places I have been to, never were. I make things up. Half the things I say are there cannot be found. When I was young I told a tale of buried gold, and men from leagues around dug in the woods. I dug myself.”

“But why?”

“I thought the tale of treasure might be true.”

“You said you made it up.”

“I know I did, but then I didn’t know I had. I forget things, too.”

The 13 Clocks [James Thurber/NYRB]

(Thanks, Neil!)

https://boingboing.net/2016/08/18/the-13-clocks-grimms-fairyt.html

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Author : Margery Sharp Pages : 160 pages Publisher : NYRB Kids Language : ISBN-10 : 1681370077 ISBN-13 : 9781681370071

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Read Online and Download The Rescuers .Miss Bianca is a white mouse of great beauty and supreme self-confidence, who, courtesy of her excellent young friend the ambassador?s son, resides luxuriously in a porcelain pagoda painted with violets, primroses, and lilies of the valley. Miss Bianca would seem to be a pampered creature and not, you would suppose, the mouse to dispatch on an especially challenging and extraordinarily perilous mission. However, it is precisely Miss Bianca that the Prisoners? Aid Society picks for the job of rescuing a Norwegian poet imprisoned in the legendarily dreadful Black Castle (we all know, don?t we, that mice are the friends of prisoners, tending to their needs in dungeons and oubliettes everywhere). Miss Bianca, after all, is a poet too, and in any case she is due to travel any day now by diplomatic pouch to Norway. There she will be able to enlist Nils, known to be the bravest mouse in the land, in a desperate and daring endeavor that will take them, along with their trusty companion .

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Today's #1000BooksToReadBeforeYouDie is going to get me in trouble--perhaps even exile me from a certain reading community and earn me the equivalent of a Scarlet Letter in the book world. I first heard of THE BOOK OF EBENEZER LE PAGE waaaaay back in the early years of this century. Those were the happy golden days when I visited #Readerville (2000-2009) on a daily (who am I kidding? *hourly*) basis. We, the dedicated page-turners of that virtual society, talked nonstop about books--ALL books, MANY books. We might not have always agreed on our favorites, but if there was one book which united its fans in a daisy-chain of joy, it was "The Book of Ebenezer Le Page" by G. B. Edwards--his first and only book, published in 1981. Prior to stepping foot inside the city limits of Readerville, I'd heard of neither the book nor the author. Readerville readers--perhaps YOU reading this post--urged me to read the novel sooner rather than later. I said I would. But I lied. I *still* haven't read it (he says as he turns in his Rville membership card). But now, with a timely reminder from @jamesmustich (who, if I recall, was one of the loudest and eloquent of EBENEZER's champions back in the day). For those--like me earlier--who've never been Le Paged and have no idea what I'm talking about, here is Mr. Mustich on the merits of the book: "Chronicling in his cranky, funny, and vivid voice his life on the English Channel island of Guernsey, fisherman and tomato grower Ebenezer Le Page bears witness to a twentieth century that has seen the island’s traditions overwhelmed by war, tourism, and modernity. Along the way, he delivers a long, rich, intricate story filled with friendship, kinship, feuds, sorrow, love, humor, tragedy, and joy—in other words, with real life passionately experienced and fervently embraced." Or, as John Fowles ("The French Lieutenant's Woman") wrote in his introduction to the @nyrb edition: "There may have been stranger recent literary events than the book you are about to read, but I rather doubt it." https://www.instagram.com/p/B2hhIdIh1G4/?igshid=1gt01n1sjhs57

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Five things meme

@lbmisscharlie tagged me for this and Saturday morning seems like the perfect time to do a meme, so, onward.

5 things you’ll find in my bag

At least one book. Last Wednesday I had four books and six issues of a comic. 

Backup chapstick (in case the one that lives in my pocket runs out).

Backup tissues (in case the ones that live in my pockets run out).

Plastic utensils, in case I find myself in sudden need of a spoon.

A tote bag. In case I need a tote bag.

5 things you’ll find in my bedroom

A wall covered in postcards/postcard sized fanart prints.

A quilt I refer to as my “terrible American history quilt” because it’s got panels with embroidered images of various points in history which I think of collectively as the “Columbus day version” of American history. Like, John Smith, the first Thanksgiving, etc. Basically all the American mythology. But it was made by my great-grandmother so I like it anyway.

A rapidly expanding collection of ridiculous sex toys (I like how we all feel we have to mention this).

A bookshelf. Because duh. (The one currently in my bedroom has all my plays, all my NYRB editions, all my Anne Fadiman books, all my poetry, and an assortment of other stuff.)

A chest which belonged to my grandfather when he was in the air force during WWII.

5 things I’m currently into

Lumberjanes. I mean, always, but I was like six issues behind and then I bought them all at once and have been catching us. It just keeps getting queerer and more delightful.

Programming random little games with Python. I spent my Friday night doing my programming homework while watching Gilmore Girls.

Kickstarting a bunch of comics at once and then getting alllll the Kickstarter updates. (In case anyone is wondering which: Tabula Idem (queer tarot comic!), Femme Magnifique, Ink Brick (comics poetry!), and also, less recently, O Human Star volume 2 and Destiny, NY.)

Jane the Virgin (it’s so ridiculous and so great).

Intermittently playing Dragon Age Origins, and the fact that a) I gave the broodiest manliest character the sword that has sparkly butterflies floating around it, and b) I named my dog Walrus.

5 things on my to-do list

Picking up the dinosaur print underpants I had shipped to my parents’ house.

Going to see Guardians of the Galaxy burlesque this evening.

More programming homework.

Figuring out what I feel like cooking for next week (considering mashed potatoes and tuna salad, because that’s not a strange combination at all).

Hanging the ridiculous art bought at the Fremont Market a couple of weeks ago. One print features Darth Vader sitting in a field of flowers, drinking out of a teacup. The other features R2D2 and BB8, holding “hands” also in a field of flowers, with a basket full of apples.

5 things people may not know about me

I’m super light-sensitive. As in, I must have good lighting in a room to not find it depressing. Turning on the really bright light over the stove in my otherwise dim kitchen instantly makes me three times happier.

I own two tiaras. One was for winning the science fair in 9th grade (I made cheese). The other was for being prom queen (I know right).

I hate doing science (but love science history). It’s probably a product of the way science was taught in school, but I found school science experiments both incredibly boring and incredibly tedious. It was the only subject I didn’t like.

My DVD collection is mostly rom coms and kids’ movies.

You know that genre of movies (usually rom coms), where the whole plot is a series of coincidences and near misses where the characters almost meet each other at various points until finally meeting each other at the very end? I find those totally realistic. It’s the story of my parents.

Consider yourself tagged if you would like to do this meme. Let me know if you do it so I can read. I’m a nosy human.

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i’m so clueless about football but i’m very familiar with eagles fans hahah. that’s SO COOL THO!!! i wish i hadn’t been living out in the suburbs back then, i would have loved to celebrate!!! it was kind of removed for me but just like being a philaldelphian and growing up with the phillies my whole life i personally was FREAKIN OUT. cottman ave omg i can only imagine, that sounds like it was hilarious. AND YES OMG THEY BROKE THE CURSE that was the best part like??? k that was Real apparently. i can’t believe. and legit i have all my fingers crossed these other teams get their shit together!! why do we just suck overall lmao. XD

as a city we’re the most ridiculous when it comes to sports like rip visiting teams (esp. the mets, the cowboys, the penguins, and im not too sure on basketball lol + the union doesn’t have a Real rivalry... we just say it’s nyrb and dc united) and ya i mean technically i lived in the suburbs back then but it was on the edge of ne philly and it took like a five minute car ride to be there, so. + i don’t like football (it’s too slow for me in the sense a quarter can take an hr to be completed bc of commercials and it’s rlly start-stop) but like. ofc i knew who donovan mcnabb was as a kid even tho i didn’t follow. that’s just what philly is. i was reading an article on broad street hockey (the one abt flyers + depression) and i was like yeah, it’s true, i’m in this shit for life by virtue of being from philly. and god, do we remember the ‘08 phillies.

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NYRB Fall Preview 2020: NYRB Classics (January 2021)

We wrap up our fall Classics preview with two nonfiction books out in January 2021: a strikingly sensory childhood memoir by a philosopher of the mind and a vital biography of the prophet Muhammad.

Stay tuned for more fall titles from NYRB Poets, New York Review Comics, Notting Hill Editions, and NYRB Kids.

Richard Wollheim, Germs: A Memoir of Childhood

This lyrical memoir from the major British philosopher is an surprising ode to the confusions of childhood. A lonely child, Wollheim’s early days were defined by sense and sensation, and he describes sights and scents with extraordinary power. As the Wall Street Journal put it, he’s “incapable of writing a bad sentence.” Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?, contributes the introduction.

Maxime Rodinson, Muhammad

First published in 1960 and called “essential” by Edward Said, this biography of Muhammad is an undisputed classic of the field. Rodinson, a Marxist historian who specialized in the Islamic world, traces the larger context of the Prophet’s life and calling—emphasizing his humanity all the while.

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Thoughts on Natalia Ginzburg’s Family Lexicon (NYRB edition)

It’s bold to assert there was something lost in the translation of this memoir without having access to the source text and only basic knowledge of Italian. However, having translated since I could read, basically, and working as a professional translator I know enough to sympathize with the hard translation problems faced by Jenny McPhee, that translator, which don’t have satisfactory solutions. Ginzburg sets up the songs, expressions, and rhymes that characterized her parents and siblings as the framework for her story of growing up in Turin in the 1920s. Schoolyard chants, lyrics from old songs, jokes: texts that have a richness and particularity that are inextricable from the language they’re composed in. McPhee makes a valiant effort, but the results, rather than being charming, or funny or familiar, as is intended, are alienating to an English-speaking reader. They didn’t bring me closer, as a reader, to the people being affectionately, though honestly, recalled. There are also many mentions of Italian political and cultural figures that are obscure to non-Italian readers – for example, intellectuals involved in the anti-Fascist movement who are close friends of the Ginzburg’s parents.

The second half of the memoir, while much more serious and upsetting, is a better read. The kids are all grown up and facing the rise of fascism, anti-Semitism and World Word Two. Ginzburg’s father is arrested, and a brother has to flee the country. Her husband dies in prison, while their brilliant friend, the poet Cesare Pavese, commits suicide. Ginzburg and her young children are exiled to the countryside. The writing becomes more fluid, more direct and more analytical. While Ginzburg’s intention was primarily to draw a family portrait and obscure herself, I found the times she reveals her own thoughts, attitudes and experiences the most compelling.

Regarding the problems inherent in translating texts that rhyme, texts with cultural and historical associations, etc., an imperfect solution is to provide the source text in the end notes. More context concerning the family’s anti-Fascist friends, their place in Italian political history would have also been welcome as end notes, too, as Ginzburg does not reveal any of this background information, only their names and relationship to her family.

On the whole, I wouldn’t dissuade anyone from picking up this book, and I would definitely read other work by Ginzburg. The spare, unflinching descriptions of Turin during the war are powerful, and her portrait of Pavese is haunting. There is also a warm and a full understanding of her mother, an expansive depiction of a positive, kind woman facing hardship and choosing to remain kind.

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#2yrsago A new edition of Daniel Pinkwater's happy mutant kids' classic, "Lizard Music"

Back in 2011, The New York Review of Books inducted Daniel Pinkwater's classic Lizard Music into its canon with a handsome little hardcover edition; today they follow that up with a stylish, jazzy paperback, priced to move at $10.

Lizard Music is a novel about Victor, a kid who falls asleep while doing a model airplane and wakes up when the local TV station is going off the air, who discovers that the true late-night programming comes from humanoid lizards who live in a secret nearby volcano and worship Walter Cronkite.

Victor travels to the land of the lizards with the Chicken Man, a recurring Pinkwater character: a kind of hobo figure whose pet chicken is wise beyond her years and dander. What happens next will... Well, it will make you weirder.

Here's what I wrote on the occasion of the hardcover:

No author has ever captured the great fun of being weird, growing up as a happy mutant, unfettered by convention, as well as Pinkwater has. When I was a kid, Pinkwater novels like Lizard Music made me intensely proud to be a little off-center and weird -- they taught me to woo the muse of the odd and made me the happy adult I am today. It's one of those books that, in the right hands at the right time, can change your life for the better and forever.

Lizard Music [Daniel Pinkwater/NYRB Kids]

https://boingboing.net/2017/08/15/high-weirdness-in-covers.html