We have a what are you reading sticky in the !parenting@hexbear.net comm. I haven’t created a new one recently and wasn’t sure if doing it more regularly would be helpful for folks. Some good suggestions in there.
Clack, clack, moo is a book I like about cows who get a typewriter and go on strike.
What age range are you looking for?
How child are we talking? The Earthsea series is fantastic for children at the age that they’re interested in reading fantasy novels for example, but ‘child’ is a pretty wide category
If you want your child to be happy let them be a lib if that’s how it ends up
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I was staunchly against ignorance is bliss since a long time but I don’t know lately it’s kinda hard to not feel dejected and hopeless. And maybe it might just be better/happier to lead a life without all this burden. Or maybe it’s just me who’s making it a burden, don’t really know
Das Kapital
but actually I feel like China Meville has a strong Marxist track record and also wrote some cool YA fiction
The complete Calvin and Hobbes boxed set. It’s a really funny classic comic strip that will make a reasonably literate kid laugh. And the artist snuck in a lot of subtle leftist thought-seeds throughout.
Masquerade as an insufferable lib until they turn 30. Dig a secret cold-war era bunker full of cool communist stuff in the basement for them to “discover” and keep as a secret from you.
click clack moo
The Little Prince.
blood meridian
Gramsci is out
you take that back /s
Communism for Kids by Bini Adamczak