Twirl
Tue 10-Jan-12 11:09:21
For a 5 year old boy ...... he has read the Mr Gum Series, Magic Tree House books, lots of Jeremy Strong, The Secret Seven, and is currently working his way through the Roald Dahl boxset. What can I get him started on next? He is not keen on Capatain Underpants or the Astrosaurs series as I have already suggested those. What have your children enjoyed reading to themselves?
Takver
Tue 10-Jan-12 12:32:08
More Blyton? Famous Five, Five find outers etc
Professor Branestawm
Does he like the Beast Quest series / Horrid Henry etc? Millions of each of them . . .
Chris Riddle's Ottoline books are lovely. And so are the Claude books by Alex T Smith. And The Great Hamster Massacre is fun! And Penny Dreadful ...
Twirl
Tue 10-Jan-12 12:48:16
Thanks for the ideas! We have already done Horrid Henry and he doesn't like Beast Quest (thankfully!) but the other ideas look great, thank you.
ladybaabaa
Tue 10-Jan-12 12:48:33
Gargoylz.
The Usborne Young Reading series, there are loads such as Frankenstein, Napoleon, Greek myths etc... At different levels.
The How to train your dragon series is great too.
He sounds like a pretty amazing reader!
David Walliams
Wimpy Kid
How to train your dragon, etc
The Owl who was afraid of the dark series
Twirl
Tue 10-Jan-12 13:02:37
oooh more suggestions, thank you ladies!
He is ladybaabaa, he just has the reading bug at the moment and i am keen to encourage him. He is in Yr 1 but one of the youngest in the year. He finds things like Beast Quest a bit scary so I need to make sure that the books are at the right level for him emotionally but are still challenging enough.
everpuzzled
Tue 10-Jan-12 14:26:33
My ds who didn't like horrid Henry or beast quest loved dinosaur cove books and Judy Moody and also the books about her brother stink. He is currently going through the Enid Blyton Happy days chapter books 15 for £10 on the book people site. My ds liked flat Stanley and jack stalwart too.
Takver
Tue 10-Jan-12 14:47:16
Other oldies but goodies which are often available for pennies from Abebooks if your library doesn't have them:
Gobbolino the Witches Cat
The Tale of the Little Wooden Horse
Gobbolino & the Little wooden horse (seriously! I never knew this one when I was a child)
The Danny Fox books
The Wombles books (the full length ones, not the picture books)
The Little House books (Laura turns 5 in the first book, it is a lovely book for that age whether read aloud or for them to read themselves)
Just one thing - they seem really harmless to me, but DD found the How to Train your Dragon books too scary when she was younger (older than your DS), so worth trying cautiously.
Takver
Tue 10-Jan-12 14:48:32
Sorry, should say that the later Little House books might be less appropriate - Laura ages through the books, of course.
Leeds2
Tue 10-Jan-12 16:01:16
Mr Majeika series by Humphrey Carpenter.
everpuzzled
Tue 10-Jan-12 16:18:50
oh and ds loved the Oliver moon books. harry potter minus all the scary parts.
outnumberedbymyboys
Tue 10-Jan-12 20:15:44
How about the Shirley- Hughes books? All about little boys and everyday life- also, 'my naughty little sister'?
Theas18
Tue 10-Jan-12 20:18:11
Anything by Dick King Smith (not a book title , just anything you can get by him LOL)
Twirl
Tue 10-Jan-12 23:27:41
Wow, thank you so much - lots of great books to investigate. Thanks for the notes re scary books/parts too. I did try Oliver Moon but he doesn't like the idea of witches/wizards (bless him!) so rejected it after reading the blurb. We love Mr Majeika in this house (even though it is magic) but I have read most of them to him already... I guess he could still read them to himself though. Off to google all the other suggestions now..... Hopefully these will keep him busy for the next year!
wearymum200
Thu 12-Jan-12 20:20:24
Ds1 ,similar age to yours, likes (leaving out beast questy things!): jack stalwart ,max flash, wild rescue (quite a number of each of those), superpowers (alex cliff)
Creaky castle, he's just finished "olaf the viking" which he really got into, also likes blyton, dahl, some dick king smith, tom and the pterosaur. Also lots of nonfiction: usborne young reading, "the danger zone" series. We also had recommended jake cake (which he didn't get on with ,but some boys clearly do), prince jake.
Oh and i have to mention roddy doyle's giggler treatment. He rereads that regularly for the pleasure of laughing until he falls over
The Worst Witch? Ramona? Zeus on the Loose/to the rescue Bare Bum Gang? Muncle Trogg? The Book People do a good 'first readers classics box set.
Wayoutthere
Wed 18-Jan-12 11:49:03
Try the author Guy Bass - dinkin dings series or stitch head. Also there is a series called Alfie the werewolf, sorry can't remember author.
Figgyrolls
Wed 18-Jan-12 11:50:21
Five children and IT
Stig of the Dump
There are scary bits in How to Train your Dragon - but DS was always reassured when reminded that all the books are supposedly written by Hiccup as an old man, so he does always survive, otherwise he couldn't have written the books 
ScatterChasse
Wed 18-Jan-12 12:20:16
The Gloob books by Peter McElhinny are lovely. I think the first one's called Little Tales from the Tip.
Gloobs are little fluffy creatures with big noses and feet (who live on a rubbosh dump and eat rhubarb), so if you're inventive you could make some gloobs out of pompoms.
