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Son likes to read and looking for recommendations on good age appropriate books. He's read some harry potter the hobbit and is going to try lird of the rings just looking for some other good books.
Thanks
My 8 year old girl has an unquenchable appetite for the Potter books, just keeps reading the whole lot them starting again. Nutter.
Anyway, I did once talk her into trying some other things, the how to train your dragon books went down well, as did the lari don books.
My 8 year old lad is reading the Percy Jackson (?) books at the moment, and for his 9th birthday part of his pressie are the two Alastair Humphreys kids books...'the boy who biked the world' or something like that. Reckon he'll really enjoy them.
Terry Pratchet: truckers, diggers and wings trilogy. Johhny and the dead.
Rohld Dahl?
Alan Garner: [i]The Weirdstone of Brisingamen/The Moon Of Gomrath/Elidor/The Owl Service/Red Shift[/i]
Catherine Webb: [i]Mirror Dreams/Mirror Wakes/Waywalkers/Timekeepers/The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle/The Obsidian Dagger: Being the Further Extraordinary Adventures of Horatio Lyle/The Doomsday Machine: Another Astounding Adventure of Horatio Lyle/The Dream Thief: An Extraordinary Horatio Lyle Mystery[/i]
All written for young adults, all still highly readable and enjoyable for adults.
Then there's all of the Arthur Ransome books, starting with [i]Swallows and Amazons[/i] which no child's library should be without.
Or adults, for that matter; I've got most of Ransome's books as hardcovers, and as ebooks.
eagle of the 9th
swallows and amazons +1
Tyred Jr's the elder's 10 now, been a big Potter fan since he's been let loose on them - he gets one a year so he doesn't just rip through the lot - but since he was 8 he's really enjoyed the Lemony Snicket books (Series of Unfortunate Events), Sherlock Holmes (and a few other things by Arthur Conan Doyle, timeless stuff), the Philip Pullman Dark Materials trilogy, Wildwood, the Wolves of Willoughby Chase and a few things like that.
The Lemony Snicket stuff's great - atmospheric, darkly funny and nicely restrained, really well written.
Noticed that Holes was on TV tonight,my two enjoyed the book when they were young.
Michael Morpurgo.
Skullduggery Pleasant series.
Mr Gum.
Get the box set. You'll be glad you did. Funniest kids books I've read. Brilliant.
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