Yeah, I agree about YA (though not about calling them "kidbooks", thankyouverymuch.)
1. _Winter's Tale_--but it's *hard* *work*, possibly even harder than _Lord of the Rings_, with that middle section of "every 50 pages, we will jump to a different set of characters!"
2. No graphic novels. Only introducing people to one set of reading protocols at a time.
4. But I don't _like_ _Swordspoint_.
5. _Spindle's End_ gets you fantasy-with-animals, too, though. _One for the Morning Glory_ is weirder than I'd want for a conversion effort (I mean, the vocabulary?), and _The Princess Bride_ ditto in different directions.
As for Dunsany and Macdonald--well, it's been a while since I read the first, so I don't recall how accessible it is; and I had a bad experience with Macdonald and won't be reading any more, so I couldn't say. But I wanted both fairy tales and their _revision_, which I don't think those get me.
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1. _Winter's Tale_--but it's *hard* *work*, possibly even harder than _Lord of the Rings_, with that middle section of "every 50 pages, we will jump to a different set of characters!"
2. No graphic novels. Only introducing people to one set of reading protocols at a time.
4. But I don't _like_ _Swordspoint_.
5. _Spindle's End_ gets you fantasy-with-animals, too, though. _One for the Morning Glory_ is weirder than I'd want for a conversion effort (I mean, the vocabulary?), and _The Princess Bride_ ditto in different directions.
As for Dunsany and Macdonald--well, it's been a while since I read the first, so I don't recall how accessible it is; and I had a bad experience with Macdonald and won't be reading any more, so I couldn't say. But I wanted both fairy tales and their _revision_, which I don't think those get me.