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My boy has recently got his head round reading to the extent that he's happy to disappear off and put his head in a book. Mostly though it tends to be non-fiction, reference books about dinosaurs or machines or something. Whilst a bit of me is bursting with pride at my mini-geek, he'd probably be a bit more rounded as an individual if he read some narrative from time to time!
He's quite happy to have Roald Dahl, David Walliams etc read to him, but doesn't seem to want to read on by himself. As a kid, I remember getting a book called "50 short adventure and war stories for boys" or something along those lines. Is there a modern equivalent that anyone could recommend?
My 7 year old went through a series of books "Stories for 6 years olds" and "Stories for 7 years olds".
He devours "Beastquest" books from school on a daily basis.
I think he's read the Roald Dahl books, he loves Famous Five and Secret Seven too. (not really modern equivalent)
I started reading the first Harry Potter book to him a few weeks ago. We're still going, chapter-by-chapter but he's racing ahead and is halfway through the 6th one.
Considering he's normally a livewire, reading is the one thing that calms him down so we let him get on with it.
Mine's on How to Train Your Dragon and I'm hoping he might have a stab at Terry Pratchett's Strata soonish
reference books about [b]dinosaurs [/b]or machines or something
Dinosaur Cove - brilliant books, 70+ pages long, simple enough prose and lots of excellent illustrations
Astrosaurs - a silly series of "dinosaurs in space" stories
Mr Crookodile
Spy Dog series
[url= http://www.marcussedgwick.com/egrb.html ]The Elf Girl and Raven Boy series
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[url= http://www.stevecolebooks.co.uk/index.php/books/cows-in-action/ ]Cows in Action series
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Stan Stinky
... and many others I can vouch for.
All good suggestions....thanks!
A lot of the boys I teach like to read the Tom Gates books.
Alex Rider books are also highly regarded amongst the junior yooof
How to train your dragon is brilliant and wasted on kids. Keep it for yourself.
None year old here and it's Percy Jackson at the moment.
At 7? Diary of a wimpy kid was popular as I recall
My 7 year led loves dinosaur cove.
Generally we read as a bedtime story but often we get him to read a page then us a page.
Just ordered a box set
http://lowplex.com/dinosaur-cove-20-book-box-set-series-collection-rex-stone-20-book-set-25010-p.asp?gclid=CKHNk9zw9coCFRYW0wod0twMww
I remember getting into the Willard Price adventure stories at that age.