/lit/ - Literature

Depends on his age?

If he's under 10, I'd say The Worst Witch.

... no, wait. I forgot to meme. Start with the greeks. Pic related.

>>8966666
Whoa, nice dude.

OP I was in the last thread and I honestly couldn't tell if the Edith Hamilton's Mythology posts were trolling. I do not think the Iliad is a difficult text to research on your own, and a group reading of Mythology is utterly pointless. Most people have to read it in high school, it's short, it takes little reflection/ group analysis. There is nothing complex, there is no interesting discussion to be had, unlike the books that we tend to do group readings on. I made a bunch of points in that post trying to defend starting with the Iliad, which I think was a great idea.

The supplementary texts and amount of information on greek mythology are both accessible (in an intellectual sense of the word) and WIDELY prevelant, not to mention generally disseminated culturally in the west.

Sorry that that happened.

>>8862037
Start with the greeks.

one of my professor's thought Epicurus was a stoic

should I stop going now that I know he's a pseud?

this is a university humanities course, so attendance isn't exactly mandatory

>>8530435
Start with the greeks.

>>8530908
honestly, Aesop's Fables and a big book of illustrated myths is all a child needs

god tier fables:
Wolf and the Sheep
Fox and the Sour Grapes
Stork and the Frogs

>not instilling the fear of medusa and the minotaur at a young age

>>8366508
Lol, you read elementary level french books in English? I'm not a >translation dude but this is exactly what's wrong with /lit/'s use of pleb-- it's always the biggest tryhard dilettantes trying to puff feathers about shit they're too out-of-the-loop to actually know about.

There was a book on Greek myths from the 60s that was posted on here not too long ago that my mom used to read to me (D'Aulaires, pic related), along with Ferdinand the Bull.

I also remember another book I owned about dinosaurs and gnomes living contemporaneously with goblins and such. Not Dinotopia-- this was heavily illustrated with a very distinct and surreal style

>>7760341

Everybook these people made is excellent.

I bought them all for my kids.

My daughter also really likes Edgar Allan Poe poems, especially Annabelle Lee, The haunted Palace, The Raven, The Sleeper. Beatrix Potter books are beloved.

The Berenstain Bears are her all time favorites though, weve read them all.

>>7250931
>Wind in the Willows
bought it for my daughter and it was a very long winded bedtime book (she is 5). Each chapter is about an hour of reading. I enjoyed it more than her.
>Sidewalk Ends
She loved it

What is the best anthology of Greek myths I can get? I want as sizeable an amount of stories as possible, with minimal commentary

>>7126661
I read this when I was a kid and am reading it to my kids. Sure, it cuts out the sex, but the d'aulaires books, especially the scandinavian ones, are fucking amazing

Start them off with this.

>>5835124
You're never too old, or young, to start with a picture book if it's good.

Their Norse one is a classic as well.