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For readers who are afraid to start such a huge amount of books and for Discworld readers who haven't read them yet, please have a look to The Carpet People (ht
by karambahh 12y ago
For readers who are afraid to start such a huge amount of books and for Discworld readers who haven't read them yet, please have a look to
The Carpet People (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carpet_People http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carpet_People)
and The Nome Trilogy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nome_Trilogy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nome_Trilogy)
They are listed as "children's novels"(1) on WP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett) but they are in my opinion even better than some of Discworld books
(1)English is not my first language and for some reason, "'s" sounds wrong to me, I would have only used a "'" but since WP use it, I guess it is indeed correct?
- tricolon 12y ago“children's novels” is correct. Could you try to explain why it sounds wrong to you? “Children” is the plural of “child” and so its possessive is formed by adding “'s”.
- karambahh 12y agoI think my reasoning goes that in french, a trailing s denotes a plural much more regularly than in english (or so it seems to me, I have no way to measure this in a serious way). I know the grammar rule that says that "James's bicycle" is not correct, "James' bicycle" is (and I seem to remember that the only reason is that a double s cannot be pronounced) Combine these two facts and you've got "no s as possessive at the end of a plural" rule that formed in my tired mind :-)