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I'm struggling to find books with lots of action, goodies, baddies and general derring do that I can read to him without losing the will to live.

If you can suggest anything else like Traction Man, Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs, Charlie Stinky Socks, the Jack Stalwart series that a small boy will enjoy I would be very grateful.

Road Dahl. Try The Twits for starters.

Why don't you try some of the classics like Peter Pan, Tarzan etc?

My ds has just turned 5, have you tried him on Roald Dahl yet? Ds has loved all the younger reader ones such as The Twits, The BFG, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, Fantastic Mr Fox....he likes books with tales about Robin Hood too. Not much in the way of action but Dick King Smith has been a success. Enid Blyton less so, think he found the Faraway Tree stuff a bit twee (I was gutted, I loved it when I was younger!) but I may try some more on him.

Captain flinn and those dinosaur books were the bane of my life for months , EVERY night! Have you tried the dr Seuss books? They're not very actiony, but my ds's always enjoyed them.

He does love Roald Dahl but we've probably exhausted that vein apart from ones like The Witches that he couldn't cope with. Robin Hood's a good idea though as is Dick King Smith.

I've read him a simplified version of Peter Pan but he hasn't got the attention span or the language skills to cope with the classic version.

I read DS the Disney versions

DS (3.5) loves this book:

www.usborne.com/catalogue/catalogue.aspx?area=TA&subcat=TAS&id=2075

There is a simplified Treasure Island in it, and Gawain and the Green Knight that we read a lot, but also lots of much shorter ones for when you want a quick bedtime!

Colin and the Snoozebox doesn't exactly have that much derring do, but it's great fun.

Cats Ahoy has pirate cats in it.

Maybe try going to Traction Man on Amazon and looking at "people who bought, also bought"?

Hi we are at a similar stage here .
Found it tricky too......but got some good ideas here if u search for threads with " chapter books" .
Agree with roald dahl
Have u tried the local library for new ideas