And nothing wrong with NiMH I loved it too. He would prefer historical fiction or car manuals lol whereas I love a wonderful classic.
Ahh, yes. My son told me several years ago that he wasn't "a fiction kind of guy".
I felt the same way, until I was kinda forced into exploring fiction. Relying on the slim pickings of the elementary school library as your only source of reading material will do that, because the nonfiction is terrible. The library might have 30 books on astronomy, for instance, but you only have to get through four of them before you notice they're not going to talk about anything new. Yes, Jupiter is really big, and it has that storm... moving on.
Fiction is like vegetables. Keep introducing it, and eventually they'll take to it.