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The first books should be the literature of the highest test. Find the collection of the Library of World Literature for Children, consult with librarians, or simply focus on your taste: little has changed since your childhood, read to the child books that you yourself liked in childhood. What to read from 3 to 6 years. All sorts of fairy tales and fairy tales, better folk - author's tales are not always unequivocally perceived by the child. But time-tested works, of course, will only benefit. This is Russian (and other) folk tales, Pushkin's fairy tales, P. Ershov's "Humpbacked Horse", Charles Perrault's fairy tales "Cinderella" and "Little Red Riding Hood", "Twelve Months" by S. Marshak, "Winnie the Pooh", "Uncle Tales Rimus "," Mowgli "(and Kipling's fairy tales for little ones)," Kid and Carlson "and" Pippi Long stocking ". Books about Cipollino and about Pinocchio, Neznaika and his friends, Moomin-troll. This is "Mary Poppins" by P. Travers, "Wizard of the Emerald City" by A. Volkov, "The Kingdom of Curved Mirrors" by V. Gubarev, etc. These are Russian epics and ancient myths in the arrangement for children. Biblical legends, also adapted for children.
Gold fund
In a more adult age, when a child goes to school, there is an acquaintance with the classics - Russian and foreign. It's great if he reads these books not only in accordance with the school curriculum or extracurricular reading, but also for the sake of pleasure. After all, remember exactly what we read of free will, and not forced. And without these books in the development of the child there will be something irretrievably lost. Fairy tales at this age also do not go away: the child is still in that happy state, when he continues to believe in miracles.
What to read from 7 to 10 years
At this age, the child can be acquainted with the tales of Hoffmann, the brothers Grimm, Hauf, Andersen. There comes a time for classical Russian prose: from "Belkin's Stories" and "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" to "Notes of a Hunter", from "Lefty" to "Childhood" by Leo Tolstoy. And, of course, the classics of children's literature: Stevenson's Treasure Island and the novella Jules Verne, The Three Musketeers by Dumas, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, The Headless Horseman and The Little Prince. Your right to add to this list some books dear to you or to find something that does not deserve attention ... However, in general, it is these books that are considered to be the gold fund of world literature for children.
Books for girls, books for boys
If age recommendations, as a rule, are indicated on the book itself, then the division into works for girls and boys is rather conditional. What is the difference between books for those and for others? To answer this question, you need to understand, but what is the difference between psychology and perception of girls and boys? A man already in his childhood - a man
actions. Came, saw, won. Is not it true that this ancient formula looks somewhat ridiculous, if you put it in the female gender? So it is no accident that not only in life, but also in the cinema, and in the literature of boys, is concerned with what is called the fashionable word "action" -action. Girls are very different in nature. For them, the main thing is not action, but feeling. If the favorite characters of boys are, as a rule, all sorts of heroic personalities, then the aesthetic appeal is important for girls. Prince, mind you, in fairy tales is always beautiful, and only then strong, noble and clever. "Beautiful" in the "girl's" tales is always a synonym for "good". Therefore, say, Spider-Man, conquered with his fearlessness by many boys, is unlikely to delight the average girl. What's good for her in the spider? There is a well-known phrase: "In Tolstoy's" War and Peace ", boys read about the war, the girls - about peace." This is partly true, so in recent years, special series of books have been actively published, addressed directly to children of a particular sex. There are also special encyclopedias and handbooks, following the advice of which girls can master refined manners, become good housewives, and boys, respectively, acquire those character traits that are traditionally considered "male" in society. All this is wonderful, but it is hardly worthwhile to limit the reading of children exclusively "on the basis of gender". After all, real literature, including children's, is addressed to all at once. Simply everyone subtracts something there own.
If he does not read
Many parents are faced with a problem today: the child can not be forced to pick up a book. Letters knows, can read, but does not want. As a result, it turned out that they read far fewer girls, and, as a rule, for practical purposes: they are fond of magazines and newspapers about their hobbies, about sports. They prefer adventure, detective, fantasy. It's the boys - the main "consumers" of comic books. One can easily assume that modern Russian boys in their preferences differ little from their northern neighbors.