Hi, title says it all really. DS has just finished year 3, only just turned 8, with a 4C for reading. Which I think is pretty good? He can read anything really that is age appropriate, and really does love to read - but he won't read anything at his level. I provide him with so many books that he LOVES me to read to him, we go to the library all the time, sometimes I get him started on a book and he'll take over, but more often than not I find him reading and re reading the same old easy, dare I say rubbishy, books. He read the captain underpants series about 8 times over the last two years and has only recently tired of it. He is now re reading a load of Tom Gates books. He has read and enjoyed most if not all David Walliams, Roald Dahl, the Pamela Butchart series, How to train your dragon, Spiderwick Chronicles, Electrigirl, various 'novels' based on lego and spiderman movies. But when it comes to anything a little more challenging, or really anything without pictures, he gives up after two or three chapters, even if its really his cup of tea. Things I have read to him that he has loved but wouldn't read himself are - Bear Grylls series (the slightly older ones, not the early readers), Enid Blyton Adventure series, Harry Potter (actually he wanted to read enjoy this so much that he did read large chunks to himself), the Matt Haig Christmas books...
His teacher says he works so hard at school he deserves to chill out and read whatever nonsense he wants, but I find it SO frustrating! I have a bookshelf full of books waiting to be read and if I'm going to have to read them all to him its going to take forever while he stays up late in bed re-reading bloody Tom Gates!
Basically should I be bothered or try encouraging him a bit more to read out of his comfort zone? He's currently infuratingly in the middle of Hamish and the worldstoppers and taking his time over every chapter when I know he would devour a David Walliams in a couple of days!