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DS5 is going through chapter books like Saltines recently. He is an excellent reader but still fairly sensitive and not interested in older-kid themes. We read about 15-20 minutes a night with him, but he reads the rest.
Recently he has read all of Narnia, all of the Moomin series, most of Dahl, all of EB White except Charlotte's Web (I don't think he can deal with it), all the Pippi Longstocking books, The Indian in the Cupboard, and now we are doing Half Magic (and I'm sure, its sequels). I have these in mind:
Cricket in Times Square
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Mrs. Pigglewiggle
Penderwicks
Gone Away Lake and Return to Gone Away
The Wizard of Oz
The Time Warp Trio by Jon Sciezska
Spiderwick Chronicles
The Akiko Series by Mark Crilley
Tumtum and Nutmeg by Emily Bearn
But really, at the pace he is going, we need more. He is past the early chapter stuff like Magic Treehouse, A to Z Mysteries, etc. He LOVED Narnia despite the occasional scary bits, but I definitely do not feel he is ready for Harry Potter yet, nor for the slower-paced classics like The Secret Garden (since he mostly reads solo). He has read My Father's Dragon and sequels, Jenny and the Cat Club and sequels, Winnie the Pooh, Catwings, and some Beverly Cleary (not as interested).
Help??
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Paddington Bear!
Some of the Enid Blyton mystery series, like Famous Five.
Is Geronimo Stilton too young?
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Paddington Bear!
Some of the Enid Blyton mystery series, like Famous Five.
Is Geronimo Stilton too young? I second Paddington Bear. My son (6.5) still loves him. This summer he's discovered Geronimo Stilton and is reading this on his own...coming to me for special words he doesn't understand. For instance, today it was the word, "Stout". I went online and we laughed over the audio of "stout"....(stout, stout, stout, stout, stout...ad infinitum) But he got the meaning of a word that isn't used much.  By the way, my son has books from Dr. Seuss that he still wants to come back to. Usually at night when he wants us to read to him so he can just "chill".
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Also, you may consider the "Little House" series. The descriptions of how they did things "in the olden days", spark priceless conversation.
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He wasn't too interested in the Little House books--maybe too reality-based? DD loved them at this age.
Geronimo Stilton was not a big hit.
I have heard Enid Blyton has the occasional racist bit. Having not done these ones myself as a child, I'm nervous about the unknown.
We still have oodles of glorious picture books in the house, and he sometimes does read them, but these days he wants a book always with him for hardcore reading time.
Oh, also was thinking of trying E. Nesbit. Might be too hard. I'm not sure where he tops out on reading level. He reads some really difficult nonfiction books in his areas of interest, but glazed over on some slow-moving, high-level classics we've tried.
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Freddy Goes to Florida and then other Freddy books by Walter R. Brooks.
...reading is pleasure, not just something teachers make you do in school.~B. Cleary
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My ds loved the Time Warp trio when he was little (older dd loved them too). He also loved the Wayside Stories. And yep, he also ran out of things to read quickly - the way we dealt with that was to give him lots of non-fiction things to browse through (he didn't read a lot of it back to front but picked and chose things he was interested in). He also enjoyed comic books I didn't see it on your list, but one of my favorite books when I was young was "The Borrowers" - my ds wasn't overly thrilled with it but he read it Happy Reading! polarbear
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Boxcar children series. Dd3.8 loves the books but cannot read so I read it to her. She actually also loved Secret Garden. Alice in wonderland. Books by Jules Verne including around the world and journey to the center of the earth. Dd and I are reading a book titled Wonder. I forget the author's name but it is a beautiful book.
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lots of books by Dick King-Smith
Bad Kitty series
The Littles (like the Borrowers, but a long series of books to chew through)
Hank the Cowdog (my DS wasn't thrilled, but if yours likes them, there are LOTS)
Choose Your Own Adventure series
Toys Go Out series
We also keep a lot of magazines in the house:
Muse
Ask
Highlights
National Geographic
Cobblestone
HTH...
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Magazines for his interest areas are great.
Barnes and Noble has classics that are made a bit friendlier for the younger crowd. My nephews age 4 to 14 love them. They have titles ranging from Treasure Island and Swiss Family Robinson to Dr. Doolittle. They do them as family read alouds so I am guessing the content is good for the sensitive. They run a couple hundred pages each book though, I think...
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