Recommend a Book #1

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Swap Coordinator:	smadronia (contact)
Swap categories:	Books
Number of people in swap:	2
Location:	International
Type:	Type 2: Flat mail
Last day to signup/drop:	September 25, 2013
Date items must be sent by:	October 4, 2013
Number of swap partners:	2
Description:
This is going to be an ongoing series of swaps, each one having a different theme. Theme #1: A Children's book For this, you're going to recommend a children's book to your partner. It can be a book you loved as a child, or a book that you discovered as an adult. For this book, consider children's picture books, story books, and early chapter books. This is for the kind of books the average child would read by age 10-11. Usually they're shorter books, often under 20 pages, with simplified language, and characters not usually older than 12 or so. Good examples: Golden Books, Dr. Seuss, Pippi Longstocking, The Borrowers, Beaverly Cleary novels, The Berenstien Bears, Babar, Roald Dahl. Send your recommendation to your two partners with the name of the book and the author, and why you like it. Choose any method of delivery that goes via postal mail: postcard, notecard, letter, etc. 2 partner, international mail. Standard Carpe Librum rules apply: log in within a few days of the signup date, I still reserve the right to ban folks, however unlikely that may turn out.

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KateKintail 09/16/2013 #

I love this idea, but I'm having a little trouble figuring out what I'm supposed to recommend. Books for children ages 10-11 would be more along the lines of Roald Dahl or Beverly Cleary novels. Yet then it says fewer than 20 pages--and those books have at least 100. And other examples given are Golden Books and Dr. Seuss which are definitely fewer than 20 pages but are waaaay below reading age for a 10-year old and are more appropriate for a 5 or 6-year old.

So which is it? Picture books or Junior Readers or Juvenile Fiction? Or all of the above? One of each type? Could you please clarify? I feel like I'm over-analyzing the write-up and now I'm all confuzzled :-) Thanks!

StuntMum 09/19/2013 #

I think what it means is a book that a child would have already ready by the time they turn 10-11 (i.e. suitable for any age under 11)

KateKintail 09/19/2013 #

@StuntMom Ah! Yep, just me over-analyzing. By the time they turn 11, not by an 11-year old. Brilliant. Thanks so much. I'm officially less confused :-)

smadronia 09/23/2013 #

Yeah, up to about 11 years old. I don't want someone to recommend a teen fiction book for this, just a kid's book.

Sorry I didn't check this sooner.

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