{"id":374,"date":"2016-01-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/15\/books-recommended-by-my-daughter\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T17:03:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:03:03","slug":"books-recommended-by-my-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/15\/books-recommended-by-my-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Books Recommended By My Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I recently wrote a post about books my teenage son<\/a> would recommend. My daughter thinks it is her turn now and has enthusiastically provided me with a list of books she has read recently. \u00a0She is a big re-reader so most of these have been read multiple times which is a recommendation in and of itself. \u00a0She is ten and all of these books easily fit into that age bracket.<\/p>\n

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First of all, we have a Nancy Drew mystery, The Clue of the Black Keys.<\/i> \u00a0My daughter has been a bit obsessed with Nancy Drew lately and I enjoy watching it since Nancy Drew was a big part of my childhood too. \u00a0I wrote about it a bit here<\/a>. They are fun, even if completely unrealistic, adventures. \u00a0Just notice some of the chapter titles: A Mysterious Diary, A Burned Letter, The Elusive Island, The Hidden Hut. \u00a0What more could you ask for? \u00a0Well, maybe an amazingly retro inside cover.<\/p>\n

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My daughter actually mentioned the first Mary Poppins book but I couldn’t find her copy to photograph it so I used Mary Poppins in the Park<\/i> instead. \u00a0I know she has read all of them recently. \u00a0Mary Poppins in the books doesn’t bear much resemblance to the one in the movie. \u00a0She is much more acerbic. \u00a0I know adults reading the books sometimes are bothered by that but I have never met a child who is. \u00a0Again, we have a fantastic inside cover.<\/p>\n

\"Mary<\/a><\/div>\n

The Saturdays<\/i> by Elizabeth Enright was a book I loved as a child and it is wonderful to see my daughter enjoying it now. \u00a0It is the first in a quartet about the four Melendy children who live in New York in the 1940s. \u00a0They decide to pool their allowance and every Saturday one of them gets to take it all and do whatever they want with it. After all, New York is full of enough adventures for anyone. It is a sweet and charming story and all the sequels are enjoyable as well. \u00a0My daughter also just read the next book in the series, The Four-Story Mistake<\/i>.<\/p>\n

My daughter’s last recommendation is Five Have A Wonderful Time<\/i> by Enid Blyton. \u00a0It is one of the famous five series and she loves these books. \u00a0I brought this one home for her one time when we went to London and she has been obsessed ever since. \u00a0They are some of her comfort books. \u00a0Four children and their dog have adventures during their summer holidays. \u00a0There is usually some mystery involved, adults are usually peripheral to the story, and the children seem to always be eating and planning what they shall eat for tea. \u00a0I wish I had known about these when I was a child, I am sure I would have loved them. \u00a0My daughter finished one the other night and practically forced it into my hands, insisting that I read it because she just knew I would love it. \u00a0I appreciate any book that inspires such enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

It is good to see that the appeal of some books never dies. \u00a0The world changes but kids still like to read about adventures and mysteries and picnics by a campfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently wrote a post about books my teenage son would recommend. My daughter thinks it is her turn now and has enthusiastically provided me with a list of books she has read recently. \u00a0She is a big re-reader so most of these have been read multiple times which is a recommendation in and of itself. \u00a0She is ten and all of these books easily fit into that age bracket. First of all, we have a Nancy Drew mystery, The Clue of the Black Keys. \u00a0My daughter has been a bit obsessed with Nancy Drew lately and I enjoy watching it since Nancy Drew was a big part of my childhood too. \u00a0I wrote about it a bit here. They are fun, even if completely unrealistic, adventures. \u00a0Just notice some of the chapter titles: A Mysterious Diary, A Burned Letter, The Elusive Island, The Hidden Hut. \u00a0What more could you ask for? \u00a0Well, maybe an amazingly retro inside cover. My daughter actually mentioned the first Mary Poppins book but I couldn’t find her copy to photograph it so I used Mary Poppins in the Park instead. \u00a0I know she has read all of them recently. \u00a0Mary Poppins in the books doesn’t bear much resemblance to the one in the movie. \u00a0She is much more acerbic. \u00a0I know adults reading the books sometimes are bothered by that but I have never met a child who is. \u00a0Again, we have a fantastic inside cover. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright was a book I loved as a child and it is wonderful to see my daughter enjoying it now. \u00a0It is the first in a quartet about the four Melendy children who live in New York in the 1940s. \u00a0They decide to pool their allowance and every Saturday one of them gets to take it all and do whatever they want with it. After all, New York is full of enough adventures for anyone. It is a sweet and charming story and all the sequels are enjoyable as well. \u00a0My daughter also just read the next book in the series, The Four-Story Mistake. My daughter’s last recommendation is Five Have A Wonderful Time by Enid Blyton. \u00a0It is one of the famous five series and she loves these books. \u00a0I brought this one home for her one time when we went to London and she has been obsessed ever since. \u00a0They are some of her comfort books. \u00a0Four children and their dog have adventures during their summer holidays. \u00a0There is usually some mystery involved, adults are usually peripheral to the story, and the children seem to always be eating and planning what they shall eat for tea. \u00a0I wish I had known about these when I was a child, I am sure I would have loved them. \u00a0My daughter finished one the other night and practically forced it into my hands, insisting that I read it because she just knew I would love it. \u00a0I appreciate any book that inspires such enthusiasm. It is good to see that the appeal of some books never dies. \u00a0The world changes but kids still like to read about adventures and mysteries and picnics by a campfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children","category-childrens-books","category-recommendations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}