# Kids' books suggestions, please

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 8, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-books-suggestions-please/429248 "2007-12-08T02:49:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-books-suggestions-please/429248/21 "2007-12-10T04:27:13Z")

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Looks like I’m too late to suggest _The 13 Clocks_, which I always suggest in these threads. It’s excellent for introducing the absurd to kids, and it’s just fun to read aloud. [James Thurber, out of print but find-able used]

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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-books-suggestions-please/429248/22 "2007-12-10T07:40:42Z")

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[Animalia](http://www.amazon.com/Animalia-Graeme-Base/dp/0810918684)

[The Eleventh Hour](http://www.amazon.com/Eleventh-Hour-Curious-Mystery/dp/B0000VV2CE/ref=pd_sim_b_title_1)  
I love these books. I was actually just thumbing through them in a bookstore this afternoon! These really are fantastically beautiful books, especially the Eleventh Hour (as it has a mystery in it!). I have spent hours just looking at the pictures, solving the clues and tracking certain things through each page. I actually bought the book for myself a couple of years ago, I look through it every once in a while.

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