Books to read aloud to 8 year old boy please

Also we've recently read The Baker Street Boys series - brilliant books about Sherlock Holmes' gang of child helpers, The Irregulars - really good. It was a TV series in the 80s if you're ancient like me and remember it!

4point - I love Gobbolino.

I read to DS8 and my class (all 8-11yo boys) so I get through quite a few. Some favourites:

Wild Boy- really recommend, my class begged me to carry on reading some days.
The Legend of Podkin One Ear
The Wizards of Once/ Twice Magic
Skellig
The Demon Headmaster
Gobbolino the Witch's Cat

The Secret Agent Mummy is good OP (if you are still looking!) - it's silly and random but fun to read out loud. We sometimes take it in turns to read chapters at bedtime and the vocab etc is fine for my DS who's also 8. King Flashypants is also good.

He got Just William for Christmas so we're about to make a start on that - I never read it as a kid so I'm looking forward to it as well!

I hear you about HP btw - and I love it, but it's tough going to read out loud. The audiobooks are fantastic if you want to give yourself a break from reading them!

DS's absolute favourite has been The Secret Garden (which surprised me - but he loved it so much he downloaded it on Audible and listens to it over and over.) Other successes include Swallows and Amazons, Alice in Wonderland, Black Beauty, The Wizard of Oz, all the Narnia books.... I tend to read the slightly more archaic ones too him as I reckon anything contemporary is easier for him to read himself.

Diana Wynne Jones Chrestomanci series (start with Charmed Life) - also The Homeward Bounders, A tale of time city, Howl's moving castle. A truly fantastic writer - doesn't waste a word and had a gift for building up to (and resolving) a scene of hilarious but entirely logical chaos.

Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book is a delight - beautifully written and while it is very dark in parts it is also full of hope, warmth and humour. ("It will take more than a couple of good hearted souls to raise a child. It will take," said Silas, "a whole graveyard.") The target reading age is 8-11 but there is so much in there for adults too.

Garth Nix's Keys of the Kingdom series and Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl books are both worth a look too - very funny and clever.

Shadow Forest by Matt Haig
Any Roald Dahl, especially the BFG

Can second the Bolds.

Mr Gump is another really silly series.

Truckers is great, my son enjoyed that along with the How to Train your Dragon series. He also loved
The Bolds by Julian Clary
Especially if you can do silly voices!
Never ever try Wimpy Kid books, death by a thousand cuts reading them aloud!

Not sure if this would be too young - but its so funny - a reading together book - no pictures and kindle only, though - Mr Frogg Goes to Work www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07L36JGZW?tag=mumsnetforum-21

Just So Stories are great for reading aloud. Especially How the Elephant got His Trunk and How the Whale got his Throat.

We also had success with Emil & the Detectives.

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There are a lot. In my opinion best books, you could read to an 8-year-old completely depends upon your choice. Still, there are many good reads available that you can opt for!

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I suggest Wishbone Billy. The chapters are right length for bedtime read and each chapter ends on cliffhanger. It takes about two weeks to get through and so doesn’t become an never ending chore. It’s funny too for kids and parents alike. The Wilf The Worrier books are quite good to read aloud. Also the classics Stig of the Dump or The Wishing Chair.

Maudlin Towers by Chris Priestley

My friends love A.F. Harrold's Books - Fizzlebert Stump (the boy who ran away from the circus and joined the library) and his Greta Zargo ones. The Imaginary and Song from Somewhere Else are a bit scary in places but amazing stories - might be a bit old for him - but I'd say they are 'harry potter' age range

Archie Greene - Potterish

Glad you're enjoying it. We're reading the Harry Potter books at the moment - just started Order of the Phoenix. I think the writing has got better as the books have gone along but they don't at all compare to really well written books that are so enjoyable to read aloud.

Second How to Train your Dragon and The Edge Chronicles.

Currently reading The Lord of the Rings to our 8yo because he loved The Hobbit. DH and I are having to take alternate nights because we're enjoying an excuse to re-read it too.

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Definitely not the Warrior Cat books. Got one from the library and it's nigh on impossible to read aloud. I find myself cutting every third adjective and clause. So much guff in there!

Plus we're on chapter 11 and nothing has really happened yet.

Even DS is bemused.

'One Dog and his Boy' by Eva Ibbotson is a great story to read.

SittHakim not based on a true story but in a very similar vein to Little House books are the Sarah, Plain and Tall books by Patricia MacLachlan.

Slightly implausibly, mine is really loving the Little House books- we're well into the third in the series and I'm looking for something else based on a true story to read when we finish them. He says he likes them because they're real.

My 9yo ds1 and I are into the second book of how to train your dragon. It's quite different to the tv show but it's very good.