"nice" book recommendations for 7yr old boy...

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DS1 has just turned 7 and has recently started reading books by himself (it's always been a bit of a battle encouraging him to read anything at all)

he has been reading Roald Dahl by himself, although I'm not sure exactly how much he is actually reading.
He also enjoyed Meerkat Madness

Can you recommend any other similar type books he might enjoy? I'm not really keen on the whole Beast Quest type thing. He has ASD and is prone to violence if exposed to too much either on tv or in books, and although the Roald Dahl books can be quite gruesome it's more of a comedy gruesome I think and so he doesn't take it seriously

aaaanyway, if you can recommend anything I'd love to get him some more while he is into reading :-D

we haven't! shall go and look it up on amazon :)

The Mr Gum books are excellent, I'm a big Roald Dahl fan and I enjoyed these. I think the author is Andy Stannet

him, rather. not it

i think he will LOVE the Jeremy Strong books.

just looking up Mr Gum :)

Keep em coming. will compile a list for my mum to get him (she works in the library)

Tintin
Secret Seven
Flat Standley
Stink series

i think they are quite nice (though I'm not fully clued up about Stink yet)

thanks all, these are great.

i spent a while browsing in waterstones yesterday, but they didn't seem to have a huge amount in there

I'm pretty sure 'Joe Sherlock, Kid Detective' books by David Keane are that age group...
And 'Measle' books by Ian Ogilvy are very funny adventures, tho they are a little longer.

What about Captain Underpants? Silly, not violent I think IYSWIM

Also Cows in Action is very comedy, and I don't think violent (though I must confess I didn't actually read them, only skimmed!)

Does he like animals? If so, he might like the Animal Ark books. They tend to be read more by girls & the lead character is a girl, but her best friend who takes part in all the 'adventures' is a boy, and I wouldn't see any reason why a boy wouldn't enjoy them.

They're definitely 'harmless' - they tend to be things like finding homes for a litter of abandoned puppies, all very suitable for a 7 y/o. There are thousands of them, look out for the earlier ones which are generally better quality and a bit less written by rote!

Oh, and of course what about Dick King Smith's books - things like the Sheep pig, The Invisible Dog, loads of them.

And (I'm on a roll now!) he might really like the No. 1 Car Spotter series by Atinuke, about a little boy who lives in Africa and is really into cars.

tavker! you have just reminded me that i picked up a few dick king smith books at a second hand book table ages ago, must find them as I think he'd def love those.

have a lovely long list to acquire now :-D thank you all so much

Michael Morpurgo does some books aimed at younger readers, such as Cool! and a series of books about a farm (Mulpuddle Farm - not that but something like that!).

Mr Majeika series by Humphrey Carpenter is quite popular with that age too.

Alan Durant has also done some books aimed, I think, particularly at boys. Gameboy and Goal spring to mind.

Dinosaur cove. Simpler than Roald Dahl, but no more so than Flat Stanley. How about Dirty Bertie (not sure I'd call that nice either, but not violent)?

Dinosaur cove
Oliver moon
Jack stalwart
Fleabag monkeyface
Astrosaurs
Flat Stanley
Captain underpants

Willard Price's "Adventure" series. They're about two teenage brothers who go all over the world collecting animals for zoos. The first one is Amazon Adventure and I think there are 13 altogether. They're a tad dated now, but all the animal facts in them are correct and are woven into the story in such a way they stick in the mind - I learned without learning when I read them as a child and still remember them to this day. They're exciting without being too exciting or scary

8 yo DSS was very into the 'Warriors' cat books last year. To be fair these are warring cats so not sure what his threshold for violence is, but it tended to be more of the tactical/alliance type stuff.

He then went onto Harry Potter and is now working his way through the Famous Five.

A girl I babysat for some years ago was massively into the Series Of Unfortunate Events books around this age, but I think the language used might be a bit hard going for independent reading.