10 Classic Children’s Books Every Adult Should Read!
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Күн бұрынThe best children's classic books can be enjoyed by adults as well, take it from someone who wrote his dissertation on the topic. Children's classics shape our childhood and conjure up the same wonder many decades later.
So today, it's all about your favorite books we read as children!
Books in this video:
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
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The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Peter Rabbit and others by Beatrix Potter
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Winnie The Pooh by A.A. Milne
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The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine l’Engle
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The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
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Nature Stories by Enid Blyton
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Danny, The Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:26 Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
01:05 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
01:57 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
03:12 Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
04:37 Winnie The Pooh by A.A. Milne
05:47 The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett
07:07 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine l’Engle
08:13 The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
09:43 Nature Stories by Enid Blyton
11:22 Danny, The Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
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@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
What is your all-time favorite children's book? Which ones would you add to this list? Comment below and let's talk children's literature some more!
@mimirudollfie3532 Күн бұрын
A really cozy children’s book I think every adult should read is The Girl Who Drank the Moon. It’s such a wonderful book. I ate it up in a day! 😊
@cafeaulivre Күн бұрын
I don’t think I have even heard of that one before. I’ll have to look it up. Thanks for the recommendation!
@Daria-4215 3 ай бұрын
Thank you! I love children’s books a lot. The Wind in the Willows, The Little Prince, Winnie The Pooh are my favorites, and also Frog and Toad, the Moomin tales by Tove Jansson, especially The Magician’s Hat (there is a wonderful translation in Russian, not sure about English), and many many others.
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
Don’t think I know The Magician’s Hat…who wrote that one?
@Daria-4215 3 ай бұрын
@@cafeaulivre Tove Jansson, it’s her third book about Moomins, I think.
@vickya8653 3 ай бұрын
I think I read every Enid Blyton book growing up. She was my favourite author. Love Winnie-the Pooh (how could you not!). A.A Milne also wrote poetry featuring those beloved characters: ‘When We Were Very Young’ and ‘Now We Are Six’. They are gorgeous poems for young and old. I still have those books and can still recite many of the poems. (I’m 55) . Robert Ingpen is a fabulous illustrator and has illustrated many children’s books.
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
Now We Are Six is marvellous, love that poem!!
@NevsBookChannel 3 ай бұрын
Yes, Narnia has to be on the list! Some others I’d recommend - The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
The list with great children’s classics seems endless 😄
@michaelmccarty 3 ай бұрын
Great video, thank you! I just read The Secret Garden for the first time and it's become one of my all-time favorites! And I just ordered Enid Blyton's Nature Stories to read -- you really sold me on that one! 🙂
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
The Secret Garden is such a lovely book…such a great character arc. And hope you love Nature Stories….are you reading them for yourself or going to read for someone else?
@michaelmccarty 3 ай бұрын
@@cafeaulivre: I will read them and then pass them along to my (adult) son.
@aiscahill 3 ай бұрын
Such a lovely list, Bart. Some of my own all time favourites on here! Danny was my most beloved Dahl book in spite of his many more popular publications 😊
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
Danny is such a great book, isn’t it? Almost a hidden gem in the Dahl collection of books
@phyycxis1159 3 ай бұрын
I was just thinking about this yesterday!!
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
Great bookminds think alike! 😉
@dagmoon 3 ай бұрын
Great list! Sent me into a reverie of delight to remember reading these to my children. I would add the Frog and Toad series by Lobel. Where the Wild Things are by Sendak, too. And for slightly older children, a tear jerker, longer read, The Yearling by Rawlings. And don't even get me started on Where the Red Fern Grows by Rawls. I couldn't finish reading it aloud to my daughter because of my own sobbing. Her dad had to step in and finish it for us.
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
And these are now becoming fond memories for your daughter too 😊
@dagmoon 3 ай бұрын
@@cafeaulivre Both my daughters are now grown and have children of their own. I'm very pleased to say that as parents they read regularly to their little ones too. So, you are exactly right! Those reading memories were fond enough for them that they are creating the same with my grandchildren. Isn't that the best thing ever?
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
It is indeed, and ever so important. I wrote my dissertation on the effects of reading/being read to on the social, linguistic and cognitive development in children and found that it is oh so important for them.
@dagmoon 3 ай бұрын
@@cafeaulivre Holy cow, good on you! That is so rewarding to know that there are studies and your dissertation that support what merely by instinct has felt like an important and loving thing to do for children. Thank you for sharing that.
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
If you ever want to know more about the topic: Aidan Chambers has written some excellent books about it.
@azlinalina5108 3 ай бұрын
Ah, I have yet to read so many! 🌟 ( I have read Winnie the pooh and the little prince, both are such treasure❤️)
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
You’re off to a great start there already 😊
@azlinalina5108 3 ай бұрын
@@cafeaulivre 🌟❤️🙋
@VTimmoni 3 ай бұрын
Great video. Thank you.
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
As always, thank you for watching!
@shisharma 3 ай бұрын
The little prince is my all time favourite,but I read the wind in the Willows in December totally loved it such an interesting work . Thankyou for introducing me to more good classics ❤
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
If you havn’t read it yet, try Danny, Champion of the World! Such a beautiful book!
@vesch5083 3 ай бұрын
My favorite Dahl book is George's Marvelous Medicine My favorite children's classic is Peter Pan
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
Peter Pan would indeed have been another great addition to this list 🫶
@OmnivorousReader 2 ай бұрын
YES! Children's book are way unrated and overlooked, I love most of those though I never read the Beatrix Potters. My additions would absolutly be Black Beauty (not originally aimed at children), Peter Pan (far better than people who watched Disney imagine) and The Little Princess is even Better than The Secret Garden.
@cafeaulivre 2 ай бұрын
I definitely need to make a second video on this series some time: so many great children’s books still to be included 😋
@suzanneboily5224 3 ай бұрын
I am into reading children"s books
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
Do you have a favorite?
@starlasell5698 Ай бұрын
❤📚❤️ Yes, yes, and yes!!
@zetectic7968 4 күн бұрын
Two books that you will get more out of as an adult are Alice's adventures in wonderland and Through the looking glass.
@cafeaulivre 4 күн бұрын
Very true…I’m not even sure I would call them children’s books, even though they were written as such.
@user-gr5ps6hq2z 3 ай бұрын
I think as a kid I must have read Charlotte's web at least 6 times.
@cafeaulivre 3 ай бұрын
That’s the joy of being a parent: I got to relive all of these books while reading them to my son
@suzanneboily5224 3 ай бұрын
Interesting