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I'm a big bookish nerd who read did read all of those books for fun (expect my Greek Myths book was an Usborne one with a massive dragon on the front). I did *not* read them at the age of 8: what is this person on?

"Children should be reading [x]" - someone who has not spoken to a child in a very long time

You might have blocked out his name and profile picture but I would put money on it being a retired man who can't adjust to his opinions no longer being important to anyone.

Tell me where they live, I just want to have a Little Chat…

JOY IS SINFUL!

Shame all that "proper" reading didn't give them the ability to read the room. Tbh, when anything this intentionally arseholeish is posted I just assume they're a bot or a troll.

It doesn't read as sarcasm to me because those sound like the sort of books people think kids should read. None of them - bar maybe the Hobbit - would I recommend to an average 8yo. That age, mine were reading your stuff, Loki, Hetty Feather, etc, just about moving up to the likes of Percy Jackson.

I think they’re 100% serious. And that reflects on them and what they think is important, which is fine.

It's just a sad idiot... many of thise out there...

If I hadn’t had access to this bad boy when I was a kid, I wouldn’t be the voracious reader I am as an adult. I hate literary snobs for adults and it drives me mad that they do it for kids.

I loved Narnia as a kid. It suited me down to the ground. My battered box set of the books is a treasured childhood memento. Nothing about that means my offspring has to like it. He's a different person in wildly different circumstances.

I feel like the best reading for children is 'what they love' & a nice to have extra is 'varied'. We finished the Hobbit last year & my daughter loved it. She also loves farts & explosions. Reading Michael Rosen as a kid & realising I was allowed to be silly & rude & play with words was huge for me.

Ah the typical older person who doesn't have a clue about any children's books published in the last 50 years. Now at 8 my dad was reading me the Hobbit, and 9-10 I was reading Narnia and at 12, Little Women. I still love rereading little women. Would I be recommending it to that age group now, no.

Ridiculous take from that person. Do they think children's books just stopped dead a hundred years ago? The only things kids "should" read are the things that make them want to keep reading.

"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C.S. Lewis

I read Little Women and the Narnia books and Greek mythology, The Beano, The Dandy etc. and grew up to be a librarian. It’s not a one or the other choice.

Sounds like a pretentious arsehole who thinks nothing worthwhile has been written in the past 100 years (& probably only ever plays Monopoly - also over 100 years old) Do they only watch silent films in b&w?

I don't know. I mean, if they can, right? At the same time if they're reading, I'm also glad. Better the work, book they want to read than a slog that bores them, puts them off. Every kid is different, so find the stuff that does work for them.

That's not sarcasm, that's a pain who has never known joy.

Children shouldn't eat breakfast. They should eat a traditional pub dinner

Because if it is, and you’re reading this, I apologise I am very sleepy. If it’s not, I thought Narnia was boring AF when I was eight. You really need to read some comics.

Seems very much from the same camp as “all comics are for kids”, but being even more disparaging of kids

If this person reads, they read stuff they think they should read and not stuff they want to read and that's why they want other people to hate reading.

One of my favourite books ever is Frankenstein. I have the 1818 text, the 1831 text, the penguin classics version that compares the two in detail, and the reconstruction of Shelley's OG manuscript before her husband made suggestions. All this *because* I read a graphic novel version as a kid

My 10yo's Y5 report has him as a "greater depth" reader on a (non-exclusive) diet of "these 'books'". And why would he choose to read Lewis and Tolkien when there's Rundell and Riordan?