@Wildcard This one is also pretty good. I think it's probably in one of my bookshelves, but I'm not going to try to dig it out now. Maybe tomorrow.

amazon.com/Golden-Treasury-Childrens-Literature/dp/0307165221

That book is dated 1985, but the version I have is certainly quite a lot older than that. But from the descriptions, it's probably the same book.

There's a list of the contents at the bottom of this page:

worldcat.org/title/golden-treasury-of-childrens-literature/oclc/…

@FaheemMitha that's an impressive set of reviews.

15 five star and nothing else.

And it looks like it's pretty much all from people who absolutely LOVED the book as a child, and sought it out when grown, either for themselves or their kids.

I'm sold; I'm ordering a copy. Thanks for the tip!

I found a book around the same year. Is it a good book too?

web.archive.org/web/20070516135233/http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/…

worth reading? or is there some better book than that?

@Tim better for what purpose?

for the same topic

My only frustration is

"Missing the figures (which, by the technology of the time, were pasted in) and in a rather ugly font (which is what you get when you convert 1983 TeX to 1999 PDF"

Figures are missing!

I also dont know if the book is worth while or there is some better alternative

I am looking for a scan of the book

but first I don't have a copy to scan

Prof @Wildcard, what do u think of the book?

Other gurus: looking forward to hearing your voices/noises

@Wildcard I think you were incorrect about my reputations

Yes, it's actually over 250k

Prof @MichaelHomer what do you think about the book?

I heard of it when seeing it is referenced in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_(computer_science)#Models

language level concurrency is what I am about to read

I have no view on whether this 35-year-old book is good

what similar books have you read or do you enjoy/recommend?

I would never recommend you these books, Tim, because they are utterly unhelpful to you

I understand. But what books really if any?

I quite liked The Blind Assassin.

I don't read novels

@MichaelHomer oops, yes.

@Tim the Webster's Third New International Dictionary is really good.

;)

@MichaelHomer Are you really a professor?

@MichaelHomer This is all too true.

@Wildcard "Professor" actually means something here

@MichaelHomer "here" being...?

So no, but I guess you'd say that's what I am in the US

Aren't you both trainers?

Teachers?

Or researchers?

@Tim "Professor" is a specific title generally implying having been granted tenure at a university.

people who profess

@Tim "Trainer" and "Teacher" are both more general terms or roles.

Okay, I appoint you both

I am a trainer; I have been employed as a teacher at times; I have never had the title of Professor.

The book must be something, since Wikipedia article references it

@Tim What book and what Wikipedia article?

Already mentioned

@Tim there are Wikipedia articles for vast numbers of novels.

We don't do tenure either, but actual professors of the university (i.e. chair professors) are pretty rare

I elevate you both to professors

Maybe also Stephen Kitt

I don't want the admin

@Tim I grant you the title of Questioner.

No teacher in school liked me

I am too difficult to handle

@Tim You make that sound like a badge of honor.

I think so

I am a handful

@Wildcard Glad to hear you found it interesting. One note: the chapter from "The Sword in the Stone" that is excerpted in that book isn't actually in "The Sword in the Stone".

@FaheemMitha interesting, please elaborate.

I'm not exactly sure why. My best guess is that it's from a different version that is now out of print. But that's just a guess. It's definitely written by T.H White.

@Tim Why is that something to be proud of?

@MichaelHomer Any idea why the link doesn't show the other profiles?

And it's actually pretty good. It's possible there are variant versions of "The Sword in the Stone" floating around, but I've never seen it in any of the copies I've looked at, over the years.

@FaheemMitha Fair enough.

I'm referring to "The Wart meets a Giant".

Based on the table of contents, that book assumes a pretty good reading level.

@Wildcard unix.stackexchange.com/users/hidecommunities/135943

@Wildcard Well, a bright 6 year old could probably get something out of it.

@MichaelHomer aha, thank you.

Note that some of it might be a bit scary for a small child. I dunno. Do you do the bedtime reading thing?

@FaheemMitha yeah. One nice thing about the "My Biggest Bedtime Book Ever" is that literally ALL the stories in it are one page or two pages.

@FaheemMitha Mostly these days I try to have him read, which he now really enjoys doing.

I have read him stories before, though.

Like all of "Winnie the Pooh" which are actually wonderful stories.

@Wildcard I hear it's sort of a traditional thing. Nobody ever read me bedtime stories, though.

@FaheemMitha :(

@Wildcard There's a lot of stuff out there. You could get some very odd ideas about the UK by reading their children's literature, though.

@FaheemMitha I've been to the UK, actually. But not for any great length of time.

If you don't already know them, you could check out the books by Elizabeth Enright. They're pretty good and quite suitable for a small child.

I've read a LOT of books based on the UK.

Particularly the series about the Melendys starting with "The Four-Storey Mistake".

@Wildcard Me too. My point is, they're not exactly accurate.

Oh, and the Enright books are American.

@FaheemMitha eh, I feel that depends on the time frame you're looking at.

Also, Edward Eager is pretty good. Also American.

@Wildcard I was speaking generally.

Also, autobiographically.

Reading Dickens, Austen, Forester, DWJ, I think has given me a fair grounding in general historical ideas of what life was like in the UK. Very different for different strata of the society, obviously.

And none of it very modern.

"Thimble Summer" is also nice. Though not about the Melendys.

@Wildcard Hmm. That's kind of a mixed bag. But I was talking mostly about children writers. Particularly British ones.

I literally have over a hundred linear feet of shelf space, all full, and several boxes of books that don't have shelves to go on at the moment.

And my point was specifically that they, um, edit stuff.

@Wildcard Sounds expensive. Second-hand, I assume.

@FaheemMitha the books, mostly. The bookshelves are from IKEA. :)

@Wildcard Right, I meant the books.

@FaheemMitha actually maybe "mostly" is inaccurate. I've collected books since I was a kid. As a kid I bought them new a lot.

Now not so much.

I don't own a lot of books myself. Though my father liked to collect them. I'm not sure why.

@FaheemMitha "you had to be there."

I do buy them occasionally. I just bought a book of Arundhati Roy's essays. Published last year, I think. Mostly about India.

Very good value for a hardback. Under USD 10 for a 900 pg hardback.

Possibly including all her essays. I'm not sure.

@Wildcard I was there, some of the time.

It's a curiously random collection.

Also, an obvious suggestion, Watership Down. But you probably already know of that one. It's one of the bestselling English novels in history.

@FaheemMitha yeah, I never read that one, actually. I have it, though.

@Wildcard Oh, really? Try it on your children. That's one of the best loved children's novels, ever.

6 might be a bit young, though. Not sure.

Oh, and you may or may not be aware that the original version of the story was told by Adam to his daughters during a long car ride. Supposedly to Stratford-upon-Avon to see "Twelfth Night".

@FaheemMitha probably, just from the length of the book.

He's just reached the age where, with a bit of explanation of words, he can enjoy Beverly Cleary. :)

@Wildcard The Mouse and the Motorcycle?

Watership Down isn't much harder than that.

@FaheemMitha yeah, I read that to him; he loved it. Now we're in the middle of the Henry Huggins books.

@FaheemMitha good to know!