Long children's books

[MalingeringMary]

Can anyone recommend any long children's books please?

My niece has challenged me to find her a book longer than Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.... And I'm struggling. Has to be more than the 800-odd pages HP is, suitable for a 9 year old girl. She likes fantasy type stuff, fairy tales etc.

The Hobbit?

@SpaceOp

The Hobbit?

No the hobbit is 376 pages and did not require 3 movies.

Lord of the rings however, my version is a single book in excess of 1000

HP and the order of the Phoenix is the longest of them.

Otherwise you need a whole series, eg Arthur Ransome

Watership Down is 612 pages

Redwall is 416 with tiny print in our copy

Fudging it very slightly, but 'Little Woman' together with 'Good Wives'? They were published as Little Women Part I and Part II in American, and can be found in a single volume.

Taken together ~759 pages.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret?

If you count all the Narnia books together (probably cheating) that would be quite long ...

Thanks for the ideas so far!

Ooh, Lord of the Rings might work, I've found a version that's 1216 pages... Although it's £22!!

She's very much not in to cheating, so it'll have to be a single book to count rather than a series I think.

The Eragon books are all really long (500-800 pages) and a good read. Typical dragons, magic, elves and dwarves fantasy 🙂

Bit of a rework of other fantasy series (clearly influenced by Eddings, McCaffrey and of course Tolkien) but she won’t have got to those yet 😊

Just checked and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is 766 pages and Inheritance (the fourth and last Eragon book) is 860 pages so if you’re treating this like a bet that’d do it 😊

The first three books in the series are 509, 681 and 763 pages respectively so all chunky reads.

@Penville

The Eragon books are all really long (500-800 pages) and a good read. Typical dragons, magic, elves and dwarves fantasy 🙂

Bit of a rework of other fantasy series (clearly influenced by Eddings, McCaffrey and of course Tolkien) but she won’t have got to those yet 😊

The main eddings' books are series so wouldn't work for her, but... there were the sort of companion books that went with them Polagara and Belgareth? They were doorstoppers if I recall correctly?

Sorry if I was confusing - Eragon’s the first book in a series by Christopher Paolini (its actual name is the Inheritance Cycle but Eragon’s the main character). The fourth book in the Paolini series is 860 pages long.

I know the Eddings books you mean though - Belgarath the Sorcerer (736 pages) and Polgara the Sorceress (768 pages) 🙂 They fit your long book criteria but I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone who hasn’t read the Belgariad and the Mallorean. They’re pretty spoiler heavy and definitely only for fans.

@Penville

Sorry if I was confusing - Eragon’s the first book in a series by Christopher Paolini (its actual name is the Inheritance Cycle but Eragon’s the main character). The fourth book in the Paolini series is 860 pages long.

I know the Eddings books you mean though - Belgarath the Sorcerer (736 pages) and Polgara the Sorceress (768 pages) 🙂 They fit your long book criteria but I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone who hasn’t read the Belgariad and the Mallorean. They’re pretty spoiler heavy and definitely only for fans.

No no, my fault. NO Idea why I quoted you originally. I think because you mentioned Eddings and it made me think of Eddings!

And your'e right, Polgara and Belgareth fit criteria, but pointless if she doesn't read the Belgariad first. Have to admit, i reread them now and again. I want to read them now but astonishingly, I must have accidentally given mine to a charity shop at some point as I can't find them. Including Polgara and Belgareth. It's weird because I am usually very careful about only donating books to charity shops I know I won't read again. I need to go do another search.