Books to Read With 8yr Old, Which Have a Similar Feel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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Does anybody have any suggestions. I know there are other books in the series but I would like to try other authors too. Just looking for some interesting bedtime stories to share with ds

Thanks in advance

My ds loved the How to Train Your Dragon books at that age and they are great to read out loud. I think the first three books of the CS Lewis are great, not so keen on the later books. Percy Jackson. Michael Morpurgo - The Butterfly Lion and others. First couple of Harry Potters.

Midnight Guardians by Ross Montgomery, the Land of Roar series by Jenny Mclachlan and Lost Magician by Piers Torday are all very much influenced by the Narnia books in different ways.

Wizards of Once

Ds likes the Dragon Realm books by Katie and Kevin Tsang. Has a similar theme of children going into a magical world and fighting evil.

Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh - short but it really inspired me when i was young!

I’d recommend the first book in Susan Cooper’s Dark is Rising series - Over Sea, Under Stone. (The following books in that series are a little older and darker, but OS,US is lovely, based on a Cornish holiday).

Some of Diana Wynne Jones’s books in the Land of Ingary and Chrestomanci series are also very Narnia-like. I’d also suggest Tom’s Midnight Garden, Moondial, and E Nesbit’s Phoenix and the Carpet.

The Hobbit.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

The Edge Chronicles, co-written by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, and beautifully illustrated by Chris Riddell. This series was recommended to my son and some of his friends when they were in year 3/4 by their inspirational teacher and converted them all to reading fiction independently. I read several myself and thought they were great.

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and its sequels, by Joan Aiken. I read those when I was about 11, but I think I'd have enjoyed them earlier too.

My dd has just enjoyed The adventures of Morrigan Crow. Or podkin one ear series is also brilliant.

Tom's Midnight Garden was a big hit at age 8 here

Also, The Box of Delights and The Midnight Folk, John Masefield.

I forgot about Diana Wynne Jones and E. Nesbit! Wonderful authors both.

Wolves of Willoughby chase and a wrinkle in time.

My favourite narnia book is the voyage of the dawn treader

Weird stone of brisingamen series by Alan Garner. Philip Pullman?

The undrowned child and The Mourning Emporium by Michelle Lovric and the Inkheart, Inkspell and Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke.

Another vote for The Dark Is Rising sequence, I love these books and still read them as an adult. A Traveller In Time by Alison Uttley is also great, and Pamela Sykes “Come Back Lucy” is wonderfully creepy

Another vote for the How To Train Your Dragon series

I'd say Dark is Rising sequence and Chrestomanci.

There's also a series of 5 books very very similar to Narnia, so similar the first book is a blatant rip off. the first book is Hagbane's Doom. They're not bad, although the second book, which I can't remember the title-something like Surin's Revenge, is the best. I've half a feeling they renamed them to sound a bit Harry Potter like too, but I think if you googled Hagbane's Doom you'll find it.

There's also ones like Enid Blyton's Adventure series, which isn't fantasy, but has some similarity in feel, and Cue for Treason (Geoffrey Trease) which my son loved at that age.

Oh - some Terry Pratchett are good for this age. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents for example.

Definitely Tom's Midnight Garden and Joan Aitken - Dido Twite is a feminist icon

The Train to Impossible Places by PG Bell. There are two further books in the series as well.

Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans.

Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell.

I, Coriander by Sally Gardner

Zanzibar by Michael Mirpurgo

Another vote for Alan Garner!

Also what about the Swallows & Amazons series? Not magical, but children out and about having adventures with few adults involved.

I always come on these threads to say Eva Ibbotson. Light fantasy with lovely relationships between children, misfits and animals. Like a kinder Roald Dahl. Secret of Platform 13 is a great start.

The audio books for How to Train your Dragon read by David Tennant are wonderful. I’d also recommend The Boy Who Grew Dragons for some light entertainment in the form of exploding poo.

The magic faraway tree
Swallows and Amazons
Johnny Duddle books

Thanks for all the suggestions. I really appreciate it.