Any Books Aimed At Children Good Enough For Adults?

sniffer66

I've enjoyed my sons Artemis Fowl and the Percy Jackson series.

And Harry Potter I bought for myself @)

nheather

Not specifically - I'd say that they are adult books that can be read by older children.

Of course the series does include the young adult books - Tiffany Aching series and Maurice - I have read all of those and enjoyed them very much.

Cheers,

Nigel

Stream62

I've recently reread the Dark Is Rising books by Susan Cooper and still found those very enjoyable, the first one especially.

I read them a few times as a kid though so maybe a bit biased with the good memories

IronGiant

Rather a simplistic view, but I'm inclined to suggest there is no divide, other than one imposed by library classification.  Obviously there are books with "adult" content, but to be blunt, I'm sure we've all read "adult" books that read as if they were written by a child.

Battle

Anything by Garth Nix

The Keys to the Kingdom series is aimed at younger readers but I thought it was enjoyable, and the Abhorsen series is aimed at an older audience and I thought they were great.

Courtjezter

I have read, Harry Potter.
His Dark Materials (although how many kids engaged with that last book of the trilogy i don't know, i found it heavy going)
The Hobbit.
Artemis Fowl

My missus is nagging me about Percy Jackson, so i will give that a go but only because i want her to read The Song of Ice and Fire series, just so i can wactch her jaw drop when she gets to the Red Wedding.

Basil Plumley

Try stuff by Michael Morpurgo - War Horse is very good but I found Private Peaceful a very emotional read.

Also, Rosemary Sutcliffe wrote the book that the film The Eagle was based on - aimed at children but is a very good read.

AnimalOfAnarchy

Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Artemis Fowl, Eragon, His Dark Materials, The Twilight Saga, Darren Shan books and Goosebumps (I know it's old but I love them nonetheless)...

BAN5HEE

The Redwall books by Brian Jacques are really good especially if are going to read them to your kids.
The Twilight books are much better than the movies so also worth a go.

quarry2006

Clive Barker's Thief Of Always and his Abarat series.