[SNIP]
> Seems to me you've just started a thread: what to
introduce your child to
> (and maybe when).
[SNIP]
> Perhaps others have more helpful suggestions for
bringing up baby, hard-boiled.
Here's a couple of titles I've seen when hanging around in
the
children's section of bookshops:
_Samantha Spade, Girl Detective_ [possibly by Tony
Bradman]
_Falcon's Malteser_ [there's a copy of this in the house
somewhere]
I've tried to get my oldest (now 10, but he was 8 or 9 then)
to read
Hammett and Chandler. He never got to grips with TMF or the
Op, but he
did read Chandler's 'Goldfish', and also Conan Doyle's 'The
Red Headed
League' and a couple of other Sherlock Holmes stories, and we
had a
reasonable discusion of plot. Currently, he's steaming
through Robin
Jarvis's Wyrd Museum trilogy which, from his reports, have
some tough
and some creepy elements.
I promise to nudge him back toward Hammett and Chandler when
he turns
eleven.
ED
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