Seems to me you've just started a thread: what to introduce
your child to
(and maybe when).
You mentioned Nate the Great. Perhaps you've discovered the
Encyclopedia
Brown series as well? For the somewhat older, there were the
"Photo
Crimes" series of the mid-80s, sort of illustrated
"5-Minute
Mysteries"--both probably available in used book stores. More
puzzlers than
hard-boiled.
For real hard-boiled, try the original versions of fairy
tales, as in the
Andrew Lang collections, still in print, I think.
Course there's the other school of thought: Don't try to get
your children
interested in anything you love, because they'll reject it
flat. Either
that, or they'll embrace it and hate you for it.
Perhaps others have more helpful suggestions for bringing up
baby, hard-boiled.
Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>
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