Oh god, I read the shit out of the Boxcar Children books. Those were so good! I think that is the start of my thing for people reacting sensibly to extreme situations. Also Encyclopedia Brown (10-year-old who's read the entire encyclopedia solves crimes by virtue of the knowledge gained thereby. obviously pre-Wikipedia, smart phones, the Internet).
But you know what other books I actually really liked that I would probably still recommend to other people? The McGurk Mysteries! (http://www.thrillingdetective.com/mcgurk.html) They also feature a bunch of kids solving utterly normal, not actual crime, mysteries. The characters are well drawn, they're funny, and actually every so often deal with real issues in non-faily ways.
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Date: 2011-03-20 10:02 pm (UTC)But you know what other books I actually really liked that I would probably still recommend to other people? The McGurk Mysteries! (http://www.thrillingdetective.com/mcgurk.html) They also feature a bunch of kids solving utterly normal, not actual crime, mysteries. The characters are well drawn, they're funny, and actually every so often deal with real issues in non-faily ways.
I have never read Enid Blyton.