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Recommendations for good books to read aloud - that adults will enjoy too!

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speedyfingers · 15/12/2014 14:30

I'm looking for books to read aloud to my two DSs (aged 6 and 8). They love being read to, but it's got to be exciting and funny for me and/or my other half to enjoy it too.

They have loved David Walliams and Andy Stanton, but I want something a little bit more grown up / with more exciting adventures / greater sense of place....

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DeWee · 15/12/2014 18:12

I'm reading books I enjoyed to ds age 7yo. He even sometimes volunteers to go to bed early to get an extra chapter:

His favourite so far is: Cue for Treason (Geoffrey Trease)

I'm reading The Wolves of Willerby Chase (Joan Aiken) at present.

I've also read:
Noel Streatfield: The House in Cornwall, Tennis Shoes, When the Siren Wails
Monica Edwards: Storm Ahead, Hidden in a Dream, White Riders
Malcolm Saville: Mystery at Witchend, Saucers over the Moor, Spring comes to Nettleford
Laura Ingles Wilder: Little house in the big wood, Little house on the Prairie, Long Winter, Famer Boy
Arthur Ransome: Swallows and Amazons, Winter Holiday, Peter Duck, We didn't mean to go to Sea
Violet Needham: Black Riders, another couple i can't remember the names.
Enid Blyton: All the Adventure series, Secret Island
C S Lewis: LWW, Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, Silver Chair
Various Biggles
Various "boys adventure stories" from 50s/60s! Occasionally edited while reading when certain expressions are used.