April 2 is celebrated International Children’s Book Day. This is a holiday of books, children and adults. The magic of a children’s book — it’s not about magical plots or magical abilities of their characters. Not all children’s books are fairy-tale and magical. This is, first of all, about the superpower of a children’s book, which it can exert on a reader or listener. This is about the possibility of a children’s book changing over the years, becoming deeper and more philosophical, wiser and more valuable. Only after re-reading children’s books in adulthood, we can feel and taste their value and significance, power and magic.
Read by yourself, read with children. As a bonus, you will get rest, improving relationships, encouraging children to read, time for yourself or time together, topics for reflection or answers to life’s questions.
From our channel 🦋 Artlife for you a selection of children’s books that adults should reread:
- “The Jungle Book” Rudyard Kipling
- “Alice In Wonderland” Lewis Carroll
- “Waffle Heart” Maria Parr
- “Tales of Moomin Valley” Tove Jansson
- “Bridge to Terabithia” Katherine Paterson
- “Harry Potter” JK Rowling
- “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” Mark Twain
- “Pollyanna” Porter Elinor
- “The Little Prince” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “Charlotte’s Web” E. B. White
- “Keeper” Lowry Lois
- “Peter Pan” James Barry
- “Winnie the Pooh and All-All-All” A.A. Milne
- “All About Mary Poppins” Pamela Travers
- “The Chronicles of Narnia” by Clive. S. Lewis
- “Stranger on the Moon” Mykola Nosov
- “Dandelion wine” Ray Bradbury
- “Tim Thaler, or Sold Laughter” James Crews
- “Dangerous Journeys” Richard Adams
- “Winter when I grew up” Peter van Gestel
- “Roni, the Robber’s Daughter” Astrid Lindgren
- “The Wonderful World of Calpurnia Tate” Kelly Jacqueline
- “Moving Castle” Diana Wynn Jones
- “Anna from the Green Mezzanines” Lucy Maud Montgomery
