Printing & Copying

If you are getting tired of reading those long novels about mystery & suspense, romance, and even spine-tingling horror, then maybe you may need to have a bit of variety. Reading books is like the art of eating. You can’t always have the same thing over and over again.

Grab something peculiar. Grab something a little bit out of your comfort zone. Grab a little of something that you haven’t explored in a long time.

Many children’s books have risen in popularity. Thanks to JK Rowling and her Harry Potter series, other children-based novels have gained their fair share of recognition like CS Lewis’ Narnia and EB White’s Charlotte’s Web.

The latter books I have mentioned have been in circulation for years and only recently have they been given attention by today’s readers – both young and old. Turning them into movies is one way of popularizing these novels. In so doing, the wider the market grew for such books and children’s stories. The whole enterprise enjoyed a great boom, with toys and other fanciful items like posters, stickers, action figures, coloring books, and postcards with cheap postcard printing.

Anyway, what I am pointing at is that there are a lot of gems that you can find in children’s stories. No matter how elementary these stories may seem – that is their true nature – their simplicity. No cheesy plots. No complicated mind games. And no pretenses.

Take your imagination for a ride. Open up to worlds you’ve probably long forgotten. And yes, forget about Snow White or Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty. It’s about time you grow up and start reading really good children’s books and not some just lame fairy tale about princes and princesses. Do you really want your children to grow up waiting for a knight in shining armor to rescue them when they can do the rescuing themselves? Let them  watch Shrek 3 and they’ll enjoy themselves better.

Anyway, if you want some good stories to read to your children, here are some books that I take delight in. Some of them have already been turned into movies, but nevertheless, the books are more exciting. Let your kids exercise their imagination through books. Do not feed them with television. (Although, you still have the option of letting them watch it after you finish the book. Just don’t let them think that what they imagined is wrong compared to the television adaptation.)

1.    James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Glass Elevator – all by Roald Dahl
2.    Jellybeans by Sylvia Van Ommen
3.    The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
4.    Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
5.    Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus
6.    How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss