to think that ds (9), should not be getting books like this from the library

[mumatron]

so, ds and the rest of his class go to the local library every two weeks.

as he is dyslexic the teacher generally helps him pick somthing appropriate to read.

they take the books back to school and they keep them there until next time they go.

ds has just told me that this week he was allowed to pick his own book.

he has picked this

now i know andy mcnab does teenage boys books but this isnt one. ds is 9 and has a reading age of 6!!!

phoned ds's dad to tell him and he thinks im over-reacting.

what do you think?

thanks herbie i might get him a few of the younger ones see if he likes them.

Oooh I have fond memories of
readi ng Hollywood Wives, Lace (wasn't there a scene with a goldfish?) any bonkbuster going.. We used to pass them round

When I was about his age I remember getting this book out from the mobile library.
Very interesting it was too.

Personally, I wouldn't censor his reading. He'll probably get bored after a while, or it will open a whole new world of reading to him.

i remember reading alot of stephen kings as a young teenager but i certainly didnt get them from school. worst we were allowed were those awful point horror's

cranky i darent show ds that one. he has an abnormal interest in ww2 and nazi's

I'd have definitely got that one out, it looks brilliant. Our library had decades of dodgy stuff on the shelves.

Of course now it's a fecking learning centre /swimming pool. Sigh.

My DS is 9 but is quite a good reader. He gets to chose his own library books and last week he came home with 'Each Peach Pear Plum' I wasnt impressed!

As a child I used to sneak Jackie Collins from my Mums collection - I remember reading Lucky and being shocked at it! I used to read it in secret in bed at night using my bike lamp as a torch (Appropriately the back red one!)

violet i suppose i was the same. just seems wrong when its my child iyswim.

havent told him to stop reading it though. i definatley wouldnt want to put him off reading.

I definately understand what you mean - for the record my Mum never found out - she would have murdered me!!!

When Ds was 4, he really wanted to take Tom's Midnight Garden out of the library. I told him that it was a book for children who were about 7 or 8. He looked at the cover every week before he chose his books and remarked "I'm having this one when I'm seven". When he was turning 7, my brother asked him what he would like and he asked for his own copy. I had to read it to him then but it's still one of his favourite books now he's nearly 10. Waiting for it didn't put him off reading at all!

pmsl @ your choice of books there asmallorange

erotic fiction then

'...medical textbooks, advanced dressage' !

yes, a bit of an over reaction. I find it kind of cute and funny, I can imagine he thinks he choose out a great book!
Maybe you can look up some kids books that are really exciting for him. Some sort of James Bond type, for his reading level.

Goes off to google some.

Glad you've seen the funny side, mumatron. It did make me laugh

I used to read my grandmother's Catherine Cooksons and Mills & Boon when I was 9

I also loved the Readers Digest Medical Encyclopedia for some bizarre reason, and like smalloranges would quite happily read anything I could get my hands on. Oh, and we had dozens of these Readers Digest omnibus type thingies, with extracts from various 1970s stories about plane crashes and so on. I lurrved those.

Oh yes Readers Digest - I would spend many happy hours reading about families stuck in snow drifts, people left hanging from cliffs by their socks or forced to eat the dog. All the while chomping happily on Crunchie bars.

thanks all,

spoke to the teacher, she will be keeping a closer eye in future. i suppose his choice of work could be worse!