No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and far more often) worth reading at the age of fifty.
C.S. Lewis
Today marks the first day of the 2016 Classic Children’s Literature Event! I hope for a fun month of revisiting old favorites and meeting new ones, and for plenty of great discussion about children’s classics both well known and nearly forgotten.
Starting today, the Event Logo at the top right of the blog will link to this page, which will be the link page for the event. (And this post should also be a “sticky” post at the top of the blog.) Please use the comments below to link to your posts for this month. This will make it easier to for everyone to find each other’s posts! There will be a separate page for the Emil and the Detectives readalong which will go live nearer to the discussion weekend. At the end of the month–and half-way through if there are enough posts to warrant it–I will round up all the links onto one post for ease of discover.
As I said before, I’m not too fussy about the particulars for this event–as long as it’s still April it’s never too late to join!
(If you really want more guidelines check the Introductory Post. If you need reading ideas please see 2013’s suggestions list or 2014’s.)
Simpler Pastimes 
I am really looking forward to participating this year! Even though I’m currently involved in the Man Booker International Prize, I will surely get to some classic children’s literature by mid-April. Thanks for hosting this, it’s a lovely treasure to focus on! I love the button, and what a perfect quote by C. S. Lewis!
Thank you! I couldn’t not include the Lewis quote, it’s too perfect. The nice thing about children’s books–even the “old” ones is that it’s usually easy to sneak something in. Enjoy!
OK, here are Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales, treated like the treatises on aesthetics that they are. No wonder they are beloved – who does not love aesthetic theory?
Thanks for organizing and so on.
You’re welcome, and thank you for participating! And you’re certainly on the ball–I’m still working on my first book.
My first selection was: Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Andersen)
https://ipsofactodotme.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/hans-christian-andersen-fairy-tales/
Hi Amanda, here’s the link to my first book, Sir Nigel by Arthur Conan Doyle:
http://journey-and-destination.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/2016-classic-childrens-literature-event.html
Wonderful book for young girls AND boys! The Witch at Blackbird Pond ( E.G. Speare)
https://ipsofactodotme.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/newbury-medal-1959-the-witch-at-blackbird-pond/
Walter de la Mare’s dreamy Peacock Pie (1913), with copious excerpts.
I just could not resist this book today. Time for some silly… Bunnicula: The Rabbit-Tale Mystery.
https://ipsofactodotme.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/tickles-the-funny-bone-bunnicula-rabbit-tale-mystery/
Simple stories based on Jewish folklore were.. more enjoyable than an entire collection of Andersen’s Fairy Tales!
‘Zlateh the Goat’. I spent a wonderful afternoon with Isaac Bashevis Singer (Nobel Prize Literature 1978) and illustrator Maurice Sendak.
https://ipsofactodotme.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/i-b-singer-zlateh-the-goat-illustrator-m-sendak/
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
https://ipsofactodotme.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/c-s-lewis-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/
Some thoughts on the first six Beatrix Potter stories, including the well-known Peter Rabbit.
Enchanting and very funny… “The King of Ireland’s Son (P. Colum)
https://ipsofactodotme.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/padraic-colum-the-king-of-irelands-son/
Adding my second book: http://journey-and-destination.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/a-little-bush-maid-by-mary-grant-bruce.html
Thanks Amanda!
I thought this looked so fun, so I am sending a link to my post on favorite children’s stories.
http://newsfromhobbiton.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-comfy-curl-up-books-of-childhood.html
A timely read, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book
Let’s try this again! Another book finished & reviewed http://www.ramblingreviews.com/by-the-shores-of-silver-lake/
Hi Amanda, just posted about this book:
http://journey-and-destination.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/golden-fiddles-by-mary-grant-bruce-1928.html
My review of Emil and the Detectives: http://books-n-music.blogspot.com/2016/04/emil-and-detectives-classic-childrens.html.
My review of On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder: http://books-n-music.blogspot.com/2016/04/and-now-to-minnesota.html.
Just read and enjoyed The Famous Five by Enid Blyton and hope to post a review yet today, April 30th! 🙂
My thoughts on a second group of Beatrix Potter stories.
Okay, I was able to finish the posting today, May 1st, for Five on a Treasure Island, the first Famous Five adventure written by Enid Blyton in 1942! Highly recommended! http://books-n-music.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-famous-fiveadventure-one.html
Sorry that it took me so long to respond, but I did get your link added to the final list. Glad to hear you enjoyed it so much!
No problem! 🙂