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

I've reserved Hagbane's Doom at the library, and found Tom's Midnight Garden in the charity shop, so that should be enough to keep us going for a while. Thanks again.

I know you asked for books with a fantasy feel, but I remember at that age loving Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a book called Castors Away by Hester Burton, historical fiction. Puffin books used to be a brilliant source of good literature for children - not sure how they stack up now

The Once And Future King. T H White's classic retelling of the Arthurian myth. It can be read on several levels and I have loved it since my childhood, initially for the talking animals (Disney based The Sword in the Stone on it). Re-reading as an adult reveals so much more.

5 children and It.

It was the first chapter book I ever read to myself, because my mum wouldn’t read it to me fast enough.

Do think you can do much better than Terry Pratchett. As they get older they can progress on to his other books for young adults and so on. The way he wove his fantasy worlds in with common things that we are familiar with was just amazing.

www.terrypratchettbooks.com/book-series/younger-readers/

The Wizard of Oz series by L Frank Baum.

Great, thanks.

I also have an 8yo. We've also read TLTWATW, which she enjoyed, but haven't tried any other CS Lewis. Recently we've done the Famous Five, most of the Secret Seven and the first four HP books (starting the 5th over the summer).

Eva Ibbotson wrote some lovely books. We/I liked The Abominables, The Secret of Platform 13 and Journey to The River Sea.

Thank you, CoodleMoodle

Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett - very amusing

Charlotte Sometimes

Diana Wynne Jones is great Howls Moving Castle, Chrestomanci.

Lemony Snickett.

Michelle Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series. I absolutely LOVED them. It follows the adventures of a 12 year old boy called Torak and his friends Renn and Wolf.

I know you've got all the suggestions you need, OP, but I just want to add - the Tilly Mint books, ?by Bernie Doherty. Lovely stories about magical adventures that happen for Tilly when Mrs Hardcastle (a grandma figure) is looking after her & nods off. Haven't thought about them for years!

Not read it but The Day I fell into a Fairytale by Ben Miller. I’ve heard nothing but good comments.

Thanks, everybody.

I'm happy to have as many suggestions as people are willing to give me, Walkacrossthesand Thank you.

Not The Snow Spider, it turns out! I just finished reading it to my 7 nearly 8 year old, having loved it as a child, but it turns out it’s actually pretty terrifying and I’m having to sit with him while he goes to sleep now 🙈

Charlie and the chocolate factory, then Charlie and the great glass elevator, in fact anything by Roald Dhal.

Some great suggestions.
I will add the Mysterious Benedict Society and the Polar Bear Explorers Club by Alex Bell.

'The Land of Roar' by Jenny Mclachlan. Fabulous brother and sister fantasy adventure.

Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain - first one is The Book of Three. The reading level is probably more advanced than Narnia (I think?) but shouldn't be a problem if you're reading with him.

How to Train Your Dragon, E Nesbit and the younger Pterrys, definitely.

I'm not sure I would introduce Percy Jackson or Alan Garner just yet.

Carbonel: the Prince of Cats by Barbara Sleigh
The Last of the Dragons and some others (oh, that's a Nesbit!)
The Dribblesome Teapots (there's a couple of other books too) by Norman Hunter - not quite in the same vein but always worth a recommendation

Where the mountain meets the moon - Grace Lin. Fantasy/adventure type of story for the main child character, similar ish to narnia but chinese mythology setting.

Not magical but What Katy Did and The Saturdays were great for that age.

When she's a little older (10-12ish+) Catherynne Valente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland is a good one too.

I found Magicians Nephew the best one of the Narnia books but few people seem to read that one

The Phantom Tollbooth is a favourite of mine and very cleverly written

I loved reading my old books to DS so we read quite a few of the E Nesbitt books, Swallows and Amazon series. Also introduced him to the Moomins

Yes I second the Moomins, series, Tove Janssen - witty, warm, slightly surreal. Best read soon before he's too old for them? Noel Langley's the Land of Green Ginger is both funny and moving ; it's the adventures of Aladdin's son. My children loved Borrobil, magic unleashed on the eve of Beltane.

if you're also open to non-magic, Eric Kastner's Emil and the Detectives and The Parent Trap are both terrific, and fundamentally gentle - children of nine or so having to be resourceful and independent when they're caught up in adventures.

My son was gripped by Catherine Storr's Marianne Dreams, about children finding the drawings they do in the day becoming nightmares they must escape at night. Darker than the others above though (like the later Over Sea, Under Stone) - so he may not be ready for that just yet.

if he likes history, Legions of The Eagle, Henry Treece, is about a British chieftain's son captured by the Romans. Also darker in places (battles, slavery, betrayals) but riveting, surprising, and answers the question of what the Romans ever did for us

Thanks for all these