Exciting books for boys that are not scary please

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Ds is only 5 but has a massive vocab and has been enjoying stories for older children. We are reading Harry potter to him at the moment and he loves the books but keeps having bad dreams so we think they are too scary.
Recommendations for non scary books aimed at 7-8 yr olds would be brilliant thanks

And Tintin....

Oh I LOVED Willard Price adventures. Brilliant. Must get them for ds1.

Laura Ingalls Wilder books? My brothers liked these too.

Enid Blyton (especially the Faraway Tree series)? Jeremy Strong?

Classics

The secret garden. Two boys and not girlish.
Agree swallows and amazons
Have a look at some of the Rumer Godden older children's stories, the diddakoi
Some of them are a bit scary but Lucy Boston's the Children of Green Know set around the manor of hemmingford grey are good. Read them first though
In a year or so The Dark is Rising series. He might be able to cope now with the first done, in fact.
I found the Alan Garner Weirdstone of Brisingamen scary but many didn't.
The children of one end street is lovely and v unwary. And more in that series

Mine is nearly 7, I'd second Astrosaurs and Mr Gum. Also How to Train your Dragon (Cressida Cowell) exciting and funny. Greek and Norse myths also really went down well-try Atticus the Storyteller by Lucy Coats and Odd and the Frost Giants Neil Gaiman.

My five year old DS loves Stig of the Dump.

I keep recommending this - but the Big Book of Tashi is non scary adventure - basically because Tashi is retelling the story himself, then you know he isn't eaten by the dragon or whatever. Fab book, and fab little drawings.

The Nicholas series by Goscinny (author, creator of Asterix) and Sempe (illustrator) is lovely -- amusing in a way that engages all ages, gentle stories full of well-observed characters, lots of detail about the adults and their relationships, and a sense of free-spirited innocence. The stories are set in France and involve his friends and family, and people from the community and the school. There is nothing remotely scary.

There is a little swearing, of the 'big fat stupid ninny' variety, and plenty of conflict among the boys and with their teachers, parents, grannies, etc. Nicholas is a candid little character who approaches life's ups and downs in a direct way. The stories have a tone of 'ripping good times' -- the setting is some time in the slightly slower-paced past in a 'boys' world'.

I am reading DS (5) The Indian in the Cupboard series at the moment, and he is listening totally wide eyed every night, asking for another chapter. We're on book 3 already. I'd really recommend it, they are very well written and imaginitive.

We've also read the Hobbit recently which went down well. We're going to do the Narnia series next :)