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Ask HN/YC: Please suggest me some good books I can gift a 8 year kid
- tjr 10y agoI was about 8 when I saw my mom's copy of this: https://www.amazon.com/Prof-McSquareds-Calculus-Primer-Intergalactic-ebook/dp/B01AYWADB4/ https://www.amazon.com/Prof-McSquareds-Calculus-Primer-Inter... It was years before I started to actually understand the math, but I could hardly wait to get to calculus in school because this book made it look like so much fun.
- known 10y agoThank you
- dragonbonheur 10y agoThese free scientific comic books, just scroll down a little for the English versions: https://www.savoir-sans-frontieres.com/JPP/telechargeables/free_downloads.htm https://www.savoir-sans-frontieres.com/JPP/telechargeables/f... Does God Play Dice - The new mathematics of Chaos by Ian Stewart. Artificial Life - The Quest for a New creation by Steven Levy Screw it, Just do it by Richard Branson. Insanely Great: The Life and Times of the Macintosh - the computer that changed everything by Steven Levy Manual of the Warrior of Light by Paulo Coelho. Every book written by Jules Verne, especially 20000 leagues under the sea. The Swiss Family Robinson.
- teaman2000 10y agoMy Weird School, any of the 60 volumes or so, all of which are silly.
- known 10y agoHe may actually like them. He likes English rhymes.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoCan't go wrong with d'Aulaire : https://www.amazon.com/DAulaires-Greek-Myths-Ingri-dAulaire/dp/0440406943 https://www.amazon.com/DAulaires-Greek-Myths-Ingri-dAulaire/...
- known 10y agoThank you. I'll definitely buy this one; I haven't read it myself :)
- known 10y agoTeaching kids philosophy makes them smarter in math and English http://qz.com/635002/teaching-kids-philosophy-makes-them-smarter-in-math-and-english/ http://qz.com/635002/teaching-kids-philosophy-makes-them-sma...