‘There and Back Again’, usually shortened to “The Hobbit”, my son Matthew loves it. Now friend @tarazkp, which edition do you have, because basically there are two editions, one (the original) dating back to 1937 by George Allen & Unwin (UK) and the more recent and new owners of the rights, who improved and updated the original version, Editorial Argentina Minotauro (1964). I own both editions and I like the new edition better, as some chapters not finished in the first edition have been completed.

I did 10 pages of Harry Potter to Lia and Trisha. Now Lia typically finishes 2-3 1000 page fantasy series in a month!! It is insane and she is 13. Trisha also finished the whole harry potter series and now into Rick Riordon's books.

Keep at it. There is no substitute!

I know that @dbooster has been reading these books to his kids for a while now. I never read them until I was older, but when I was a kid, I dived deep into the Narnia books and Ivanhoe.  That last one was tough.  It's a beast of a book like The Hobbit, but oh so good.  I also read a good book called Gray Magic by Andre Norton.  It was like Narnia, but leaned heavier towards the King Arthur mythos.

I first read The Hobbit to my son when he was 8. At the time his English was terrible and he mostly defaulted to Japanese. I thought he understood almost nothing as we read through, but he did seem to enjoy it, or maybe he just enjoyed me reading to him. He laughed at the troll scene when I did funny voices and also when the dwarves were trying to keep Beorn happy when meeting him. The next year I read it again and he surprised me by understanding more and by remembering a lot of it. Apparently he had understood more the previous year than I had thought. The third year, when he was 10, after we reread The Hobbit, we continued into LotR and read all three of them. I repeated that again last year. He understood it all remarkably well, despite the more advanced syntax and vocab over The Hobbit. I'm kind of playing with the idea of venturing into parts of The Silmarillion next time we go through all of them, but that one may still be too much for him. 

The Hobbit was really the first *real* book I read to him. We had been doing entirely picture books up until that point. I knew it was probably a larger leap than I should have taken, but I really love Tolkien and I wanted to share that love. 

I hope your daughter also really enjoys it!

> No pictures, just words

Sounds like a Hobbit value to me. I need more of this in my life. Our 20-second clips on EDM news and highlights via Moon Lvnding drawfs any of the traffic we get to read our long-form journalistic pieces. It is infuriating!

Also chiming in to say that I was a 2 language learning growing up as a kid, and I'm really thankful I was open to that experience.

My grandmother used to read me children's stories, maybe that's why I am so imaginative, before I do something I plan and imagine it and even visualize myself doing it, it's like a warm up, one of the first stories I read in my childhood was The Pied Piper, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Magic Beanstalk, and Jack and the Magic Beanstalk.

For a long time Hobbit was the only english book I had read. Now I have read the Hobbit and Berserk. For me Berserk is the best fantasy books I have ever read and probably the best books I have read period. But they are definitely not suitable for kids. It's been a while since I read the Hobbit or Lord of The Rings. But I watch Lord of the Rings almost every year.

Ah, the Hobbit. That is an awesome book for sure. I remember my imagination running wild when I first read it. Then watching the movies helped make the images clearer, and added more details that were missing. I hope you read it to her with voice effects to make the experience better.

When Jarrah was learning to read, he read The Twits by Roald Dahl on a car trip to Scotland. Out aloud. It was hilarious and painstaking.

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Then the book he picked up directly after that, in his own, was The Hobbit. 

He was six years old. 

After that there was no stopping him. He DEVOURED books. 

Great book for kids! I remember being told off at primary school for reading The Hobbit in class. To be fair it was during a maths lesson but I just needed to know what was going to happen next!