Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.
Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.
I want you to understand this. I NEED you to understand this. My mother read me the hobbit as bedtime story, and I started pushing myself to read before pre-school so I could in fact read the hobbit for myself instead of having to wait for bedtime.
I didn't do so right away but jesus wept I PUSHED myself to learn to read SPECIFICALLY so I could read The Hobbit! It is, in fact, a children's story! And children only see page count as 'there is a lot of this fun story to read!'
My dad read both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to my sister when she was young, and if he hadn't been working 20+ hour days, he would have done the same with me.
Instead, he got me my own copy of The Hobbit to read for myself when I was around 5 or 6. My mother was a teacher as well, so I started learning to read before I was two years old.
As I said recently, the two Alice books are my favorite children's books of all time. I first read them as a child, and I still re-read them as an adult.
Did I understand everything I read in these books at the time? No. But I was never afraid to ask questions, or look up the info I didn't get, or words I didn't understand... in either an encyclopedia or dictionary. (Because you know, this was a time before the modern internet, of course.)
Anyway, by the time I was 8-9, reading a 300-page book was nothing to me. I never looked at the page counts when I would choose a book to read anyway.
By the time I was 11-12, I could read a 300-page book in a day or so (if I had the time to do so).
When I was 14, I read all of Stephen King's IT in 3 days, over a long weekend.
Reading is fun, IMO. And I am forever grateful my parents started me off with it so young.
