The book you care most about having children read: I would give young readers T. H. White’s “The Sword in the Stone,” “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas, or Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim.”
A classic that, on rereading, was disappointing: None yet. In rereading “The Red and the Black” by Stendhal, I am still stunned at how adventurous it is, full of subtle character and experimentation.
