These aren’t actually for a kid LOL these are for me. Children’s books can just be really good, since they can’t have sex or graphic violence and have to find something else for the intrigue, like actually having good characters or serious humor. I haven’t read any books with sex in them in a while but somehow every book I’ve read in the last few months is a graphic violence book. I don’t mind the graphic violence I just feel like the authors aren’t realizing that there’s more ways to make a story interesting than limbs torn off or blood gushing everywhere or whatever
I love Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching series so much, and Diana Wynne Jones’ Howl’s Moving Castle, and the Chrestomanci series. I’ve read the Chronicles of Prydain and it is also wonderful
I also have (but haven’t yet read..) the first three Earthsea books by Ursula Le Guin
Any suggestions? Any genre of kid’s book, just ideally fantasy or scifi
by angelic_creation
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Alan Garner’s novels – Elidor, The Owl Service, etc – are for children, weird, a little creepy, and very much rooted in British mythology and postwar culture.
Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom trilogy is also great – mild horror (necromancy and ghouls), but still safe for adolescent readers.
The Secret Oceans, by Betty Ballantyne, is the most visually epic book
Seconding Old Kingdom! Tress of the Emerald Sea, Elantris, Tamora Pierce