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"Fascinating" books for 7yo

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BertieBotts · 11/07/2015 19:04

DS has requested some "fascinating books" for his seventh birthday Grin

When asked what this means he says:

  • Books about dinosaurs
  • Where there is this boy, and he's on a tropical island, and this tropical island, is like, right by the sea!
  • Goblin books
  • Cheese people, where a man cut them up into quarters, and then they ran away, because he wants to cut them up even smaller, and put them on his bread.
  • Some troll books and some pirate books.
Confused

He likes Jeremy Strong and Roald Dahl, and the Magic Treehouse books, and Winnie the Witch. He can read short chapter books.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

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wonkylegs · 11/07/2015 19:54

Our 7yo DS really likes the horrible science books (says they are fascinating, we bought him the set on offer) which may or may not be his cup of tea but I think the horrible histories series has a pirates one.
He also loves the How to train your dragons series by Cressida Cowell which are full of pirates, Vikings & Dragons of course.

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BertieBotts · 11/07/2015 19:45

Is Treasure Island really a timeless classic or is it a bit old and fusty now? I've never read it.

Those sound good, Ausflug.

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Ausflug · 11/07/2015 19:38

I had a couple of pirate stories by Margaret Mahy when I was 7. One was called The Pirate Uncle, the other The Great Piratical Rambunction (I think).

Not sure if they are still in print (and I suppose they might seem old fashioned now), but they were good fun, and I think fairly simple and short - and first one would also fit the boy living right by the sea, (though unfortunately not on a tropical island) criteria.
In the first two children go to stay with their uncle, and they suspect he is a pirate, and have to sleuth around trying to find out if he is. And in the second a pair of brothers have a retired pirate as a babysitter, and he holds a pirate party at their house.

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BertieBotts · 11/07/2015 19:27

I used to love Famous Five! I'll have a look. I'm going to check the library for these too :) We only have a small English language library here.

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TenPinkFairies · 11/07/2015 19:21

Oldies but some of the Enid Blyton famous five ones?

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BertieBotts · 11/07/2015 19:21

Oh, in fact, the fact that is a German book is even better, because we live in Germany so the other children might have read the same book! :)

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BertieBotts · 11/07/2015 19:20

Sounds good! He's begging me to let him read Harry Potter but I'm concerned he'll zip through them and I'm not sure he'll cope with the later ones yet.

He said he doesn't mind if nobody knows a cheese book, because we can just make one out of paper.

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VillaVillekulla · 11/07/2015 19:13

Admittedly it doesn't meet any of his criteria (other than it's a fascinating book) but he might like Emil and the Detectives. My 7yo loved it. She's currently Harry Potter obsessed and seems to find the books pretty fascinating.