I've just recently reread the "The Dark is Rising" sequence by Susan Cooper - very good YA stuff despite being quite old now.
The one I've liked most in recent years is "The Bartimaeus Trilogy" by Jonathan Stroud. It's very intelligent fantasy with a hilariously quirky main character.
For excellent kids' books you can also hardly go wrong with Neil Gaiman - if "a bit scary, but in a good way" is okay for you. I haven't read "The Graveyard Book" yet, but I've listened to the audio version of "Coraline" ready by the author himself. Man, that was good. Forget the movie.
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Date: 2009-09-25 06:29 am (UTC)The one I've liked most in recent years is "The Bartimaeus Trilogy" by Jonathan Stroud. It's very intelligent fantasy with a hilariously quirky main character.
For excellent kids' books you can also hardly go wrong with Neil Gaiman - if "a bit scary, but in a good way" is okay for you. I haven't read "The Graveyard Book" yet, but I've listened to the audio version of "Coraline" ready by the author himself. Man, that was good. Forget the movie.