[Closed] What next after Harry Potter (books)?

the hobbit..

How about Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy?

I enjoyed them and I'm 30+!

The Terry Prachett books for children or even the Discworld series.

Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series.

Pratchett - the Wee Free Men, Hat full of Sky and other books aimed at younger readers, although the main discworld books are good too and there's nothing overtly un-child-friendly, if he can read HP she'll be fine with them

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Thanks - already thought of the Hobbit, Artemis Fowl and Pullmann as I've read and enjoyed all of those over the years.

Will check out Pratchett as I've never been a fan.

Possibly a wee bit young for Pullman? Pretty sure it's written at early teens.

the Dresden Files

i'm currently enjoying 'carpet people' by pratchett. t'is a good book, think i first read it when i was about 10

Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. Get a great appreciation of the outdoors and adventure. Read them all several times when I was a kid and loved them.

Pratchett is very good for teaching the benefits of questioning authority and also for exploring socialist idealogies..

The Hobbit is a cracking read – I’m reading it at the moment for something like the 5th – 6th time – read it to both daughters when the were really quite young

The hobbit if you want her to grow up to be an IT geek, posing in trail centre car parks with far more suspension than required.

Swallows and Amazons +1

anything by Dianna Wynne Jones or Alan Garner

Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series.

The vampire assitant and the whole serie is very good (well first three volumes are).
If she's a good reader she can give the Eragon cycle a go. However I did struggle a bit with the two first volume (quite a lot of few words for me).
Hope it helps, as I am not sure I am very qualified to advice a young reader about books.

Edit you can had Heroes of the valley from stroud too.

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Narnia books

Edit - see someone else has mentioned Alan Garner (Weirdstone..)

yeah Nick, The Wierdstone is a brilliant book

and Narnia is far better in the book than in the cinema

MSP – I don’t work in IT – neither do my daughters have any such tendencies I don’t ride at trail centres so can’t pose in the car park, and when I ride FS I put all 6” to good use (once off the canal tow path) – I’ve also read Lord of the Ring about half a dozen times and Mervyns Peak’s Gormenghast – ‘ cause I like a good yarn -oh while were on about the inklings jamesgarbett you may want to take a look at C S Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia

Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone series- Arthurian legend, magic, etc etc. Fantastic series.
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As said above, Ian Serrailier, Alan Garner, Arthur Ransome, the Hobbit, Narnia etc. You can tell we're of a certain age, can't you. Artemis Fowler's good. Don't forget Enid Blyton either!

Thanks all plenty to go at here

Hi James

My 10 yr old is loving:
- Eragon series by Christopher Pannoloni(?)
- Lord of the Rings
- Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordin
- The Hardy Boys
- The Young Bond
- Inkheart series

And I've loved most of the above too!

Swallows and Amazons is an AWESOME kids book .

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MSP – I don’t work in IT – neither do my daughters have any such tendencies I don’t ride at trail centres so can’t pose in the car park, and when I ride FS I put all 6” to good use (once off the canal tow path) – I’ve also read Lord of the Ring about half a dozen times and Mervyns Peak’s Gormenghast – ‘ cause I like a good yarn -oh while were on about the inklings jamesgarbett you may want to take a look at C S Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia

Lord of the rings if you want your daughter to have a inflated sense of self, with no sense of humour.

I used to love the Hardy Boys - obviously Nancy Drew for the female version. FWIW, I never got into the Pullman books, or Tolkein.

Considering J K Rowling intended the HP books to be aimed at kids the equivalent age of Harry, I'm amazed how young some of the readers are, as the later books take quite a dark turn for what I'd have thought to be quite a young kid.

MSP - I'm getting the sense that your're not a Tolkien fan

Well I have just discover that my knowledge of the English language is by far, inferior to the average 10 years old 🙁