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Show HN: Bookvine.io - Help find age appropriate books for kids
aged 6 to 14
Author : realcul
Score : 54 points
Date : 2022-03-27 16:16 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| pppoe wrote:
| Thanks! Just get to know the "Press Start" series from your
| website and my 6-year-old son will definitely love it!
| encoderer wrote:
| Well done, this is great. I've already sent my wife a link to it.
| We are mostly through the original magic treehouse series and we
| need a new book series to read to our 4 year old. Amazon search
| is a wasteland for this sort of thing.
|
| Let's talk SEO. You need pages like this:
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| books-for-6-year-olds
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| books-for-7-year-olds
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| Etc
|
| We have a site crontab.guru and you would not believe the traffic
| we get on our "every n minutes" pages. Long tail!
|
| One more.. in your book pages I would change /series/ to /review/
| monkeybutton wrote:
| Haha I love crontab.guru! It fits perfectly for me who uses
| cron schedules only 1-2 times a year, just infrequently enough
| to forget the format before needing it again.
| realcul wrote:
| Thanks a lot for the feedback and suggestions. Hope you find
| the site it useful. Totally agree with you, SEO is definitely
| an area to focus on so we can get organic search traffic.
|
| btw - good fun series to pick up post Magic treehouse would be
| - Press Start, geronimo stilton/Thea stilton and Dogman to name
| a few.
| rahimnathwani wrote:
| This is a difficult problem to solve for some kids, because there
| are at least two dimensions to consider:
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| - language difficulty (which is what lexile aims to measure)
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| - how appropriate the topic is
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| My 5.5yo son is decoding words at about 4th grade level (based on
| an informal 'San Diego Quick Assessment'). But he's limited in
| his reading by:
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| - his life experience and existing knowledge, which both affect
| comprehension
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| - his willingness to read books that have few pictures (he
| doesn't like books that have 10 pages between pictures)
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| It's hard to find books that are age-appropriate (based on topic
| and maybe format) but also have challenging language (vocabulary,
| grammar).
| cpfohl wrote:
| Totally agree. My boys are reading at an extremely high level.
| I wish sites like these were a grid of topical and reading
| level.
| awb wrote:
| The same goes for the inverse. It can be discouraging for
| kids behind in reading to be assigned content based on their
| age (or grade) only for it to be far too challenging.
|
| It's a hard problem though because categorization makes it
| easy to organize content and find what you're looking for,
| but it can also feel like a competition, which is not always
| helpful.
| cpfohl wrote:
| I wonder if the solution is _not_ naming the
| categories...simply ordering them by difficulty...
| barathr wrote:
| A few you might check out:
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| The Humphrey the hamster series
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| The Zoey and Sassafras series
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| The Secret Explorers series
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| Alice in Wonderland
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| Some Beverly Cleary books
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| Many of the DK nonfiction books
| realcul wrote:
| Totally agree with you on all the points. As with most
| recommendations - YMMV.
|
| This is just to provide a guideline/reference. The way I
| recommend seeing this list is - say your kid likes "The
| Penderwicks" then..."hey are few other books that are similar
| to The Penderwicks"
| rahimnathwani wrote:
| Yes, definitely. I hope my comment didn't come across as
| criticism! I love seeing sites like your kid's.
|
| I was more lamenting the general difficulty of the problem.
| (And possibly just the lack of books that are suitable for
| kids who are advanced at reading, but have interests similar
| to other kids their age.)
| realcul wrote:
| Hi HN, Bookvine.io helps find age appropriate books for kids,
| with links to get it from Amazon or your local county library
| (limited to US for now). This was created by my 13yr old son who
| is an avid reader. I used to spend hours trying to get the right
| books for him to read and then get it from local county library
| or Amazon. He wanted to create this site from the books that he
| has read - to help others in a similar situation. He used Webflow
| to create the site (I am a software engineer and guided him thru
| the process and some custom JS coding that was required) More
| about the story in the About Page. We would love some feedback or
| suggestions, to help improve the website. (there are no ads/no
| sign up/no monetary benefit etc) There are almost 300 books,
| along with reviews and recommendations - categorised by age - to
| make it easier for parents and kids to pick the next book to read
| easily.
| jasonboyd wrote:
| This is fantastic. Thanks so much to your son for curating this
| list and creating the site. We will start working our way
| through these recommendations.
| the_common_man wrote:
| Great patenting, kudos.
| mistrial9 wrote:
| NoraCodes wrote:
| Out of curiosity, why did you put quotes around the word
| "marriage"? Am I correctly interpreting your comment as
| implying that same-sex marriage is not legitimate, and that
| children should not be aware of its existence (or at least,
| that its inclusion makes a book inappropriate for children)?
| mistrial9 wrote:
| I think people get very upset quickly, and I dont want to be
| upsetting.. so lets not argue in any case, even if we do not
| agree..
|
| I come from a religious background, and I support plural,
| open society myself. So same-sex couples are a thing, and
| people do that.. so they are free to do that.. as I am free
| to pursue a stricter social definition.
|
| There are people on both sides of this discussion, that feel
| so strongly about their point of view, that they actively,
| definitely, without apology and sometimes by unfair means,
| seek to present, influence and be role models for children in
| formative stages of learning.
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| Therefore, on both sides of this topic, I believe that "open"
| material like books for children, that there needs to be
| safety and guidelines, in the clear open discussion, about
| what is in them.. for the parents, family and their social
| groups to make their own decisions.
|
| Lastly, you are right, I added quotes around "Marriage"
| because in my tradition, Marriage means a sacred union of one
| man and one woman. I am committed to support "civil unions"
| for legal rights of same sex couples, especially high-stakes
| end-of-life things like medical authority and inheritance,
| but no one cares about me personally, these are large topics
| that are decided in a civil process. I support that civil
| process.
| morelisp wrote:
| It's child abuse for parents to hide the existence of gay
| relationships from their children. You're advocating child
| abuse under genteel language.
| pirate787 wrote:
| That's an absurd argument. Reductio ad absurdum. Every
| parent has the right to determine when and how their kids
| learn about various developmental and sexual topics.
| Minor49er wrote:
| The About page answers this in detail:
| https://www.bookvine.io/about-page
|
| Overall, this appears to be a learning project for a middle
| schooler and his dad as well as a way for them to cover costs
| through affiliate links. While this might be a fun and useful
| way to discover new books, you should read the reviews and
| cross-reference your findings with parental or specialty groups
| like teachclean.com if you are concerned about the subject
| matter.
| mistrial9 wrote:
| thank you for that answer, I will look..
| pbamotra wrote:
| Another good resource -- https://hub.lexile.com/
| miki123211 wrote:
| I always found it interesting how different books for teenagers
| were from movies considered appropriate for the same age group.
|
| For example, the "Cherub" series by Robert Muchamore, which I
| greatly enjoyed as a kid, included crime, drug and alcohol use
| (even by kids), sex scenes, mentions of underage prostitution and
| human trafficking, and even a scene of an attempted rape on a
| minor. The much more popular "Hunger Games" series was a little
| bit less violent, but not by much. Nobody seemed to mind. Those
| books were clearly intended for teenagers, I'd say 12-16 year
| olds, and there were no disclaimers about what those books
| contained.
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| Even with TV, things aren't as obvious as they seem. Over here in
| Poland, very few parents care about age restrictions. Unlike
| English, we don't even have a word for "explicit content".
| Creating online accounts with fake dates of birth is pretty much
| normal. When I was in middle school, most people I knew watched
| porn with very few difficulties. Game stores don't have any
| obligations to restrict what kids can buy, it's not even clear if
| refusing a game sale based solely on the age of the buyer is
| legal[1]. When one game store refused to sell GTA5 to a kid, I
| heard about it on the news. When I compare people of my
| generation raised in Poland to our American peers, where explicit
| content is much more of a taboo, I see no noticeable effects of
| watching such content.
|
| This has some disturbing censorship implications, how many real-
| life phenomena are filmmakers omitting to get just a little bit
| more viewers, just because of some well-intended laws that seem
| to have no actual positive effect on society?
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| [1] Polish https://bezprawnik.pl/sprzedaz-dziecku-gry-dla-
| doroslych/
| LanceH wrote:
| I would like to see the teens break out of the sameness of all
| the books in the young adult market and read more "adult"
| books. By adult, I mean some of the less cookie cutter book
| history has to offer. Yes, I realize there are formulaic books
| for adults as well, but the young adult market takes it to
| another level.
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| I could also live with no more stories about saving society or
| the world and how it happens to have fallen about a teenager
| where they aren't sure what looks best to wear and can't decide
| between several people as a romantic partner among those who
| are helping them along their quest.
| taftster wrote:
| Thank you for this.
|
| Suggestion: I'm looking at the 10-14 list. When I click "Next
| Page", it retains the "book series" section on top and the actual
| next page I have to scroll halfway down the screen to see. I'm
| not expecting to have to skip over the book series section
| _again_ to get to the next page of individual books. Difficult
| and confusing, at best.
| robmsmt wrote:
| Fantastic, bookmarked. I would love to see book suggestions for
| younger kids too
| jll29 wrote:
| Thanks for putting together the site, it's amazing that your son
| read 300 books already.
|
| Suitability of books is a complex topic, but the site is a good
| start.
|
| Typo: Animal Farm is by George Orwell (= Eric Blair), not by Jack
| London as the site says.
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