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larryhammerCan anyone recommend books like Tamora Pierce’s Alanna and Protector of the Small series for younger readers? Stories about training for knighthood or in vicinity of that.
Finding recs that age up is easy. Not so, down.
—L.
Finding recs that age up is easy. Not so, down.
—L.
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Date: 24 October 2018 08:41 pm (UTC)ETA: oh, I see you've hit those already. I sent an APB to my children's librarian friends.
Tangentially, have you run across the Dale DeArmond retellings of Inuit stories, from the Sierra Club? They turn up cheap, used, sometimes, but you should be able to ILL them if you can't find them at a used bookstore. I think they'd be in your wheelhouse, and I can't remember if I've recommended them before.
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Date: 24 October 2018 10:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 25 October 2018 02:39 am (UTC)ETA: A few things here...
And there's something on TV: Nella the Princess Knight on Nick Jr.
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Date: 25 October 2018 07:13 pm (UTC)I've seen Nella merch, but we haven't checked out the series.
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Date: 27 October 2018 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 October 2018 03:18 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 24 October 2018 08:46 pm (UTC)Dragon Slayers' Academy (grade 2-4) If this works out there are at least 18 more in the series.
Rise of the Earth Dragon (grade 1-3). Kid undergoes training to become a Dragon Master.
The Princess in Black (K - 3). Princess as some sort of black-clad superhero? But it's by Shannon Hale, which gives it a lot of cred.
(hahaha the also-boughts on Hamster Princess books are hilarious. I don't think Rafe: A Buff Male Nanny is being read by a kid!)
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Date: 24 October 2018 10:10 pm (UTC)Since knights (rather than any sort of wizardry) is the key interest here, Dragon Slayers sounds promising.
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Date: 26 October 2018 02:11 am (UTC)Sir Small and the Dragonfly is great for 4-6 years old.
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Date: 26 October 2018 03:08 pm (UTC)That looks like a definite possibility. Thanks!
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Date: 27 October 2018 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 26 October 2018 03:29 am (UTC)(We're nearly past Hale's PiB, but Reason still likes it sort of nostalgically. I know she's not ready for Alanna yet, however, and I feel awkward about my adult-meeting-of-Alanna reaction to the cultural depictions in that world, anyway. Let's see whether Reason finds it herself at the library, IOW.)
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Date: 26 October 2018 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 26 October 2018 07:20 pm (UTC)If "vicinity of training for knighthood" is more like "learning to be brave and strong and noble, pseudo-medieval context" I can rec The Door in the Wall by Margeurite de Angeli. I think it's written at the right reading level for kids in the next age group younger than for Protector of the Small, like 8-10-ish year olds instead of young teens, and lends itself well to being read aloud to younger kids. Especially if the grownup reader can do voices for the different characters. :-) It has few but quite nice illustrations, like one full-page one per short chapter.
There's also this one, which I haven't read, but looks good:
The Making of a Knight by Patrick O'Brien,
http://a.co/d/i7cjKrV on Amazon
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Date: 26 October 2018 07:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 3 November 2018 04:19 pm (UTC)