What are your 7 year olds reading?

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We're in a bit of a rut with ds and what he reads. He's got a couple of beast quests and some Roald Dahl but none of them grip him. He's still quite immature.

What could I get him that he might enjoy?

DS is six and loves a book we have that is a collection of stuff by Slike Milligan - poetry, short stories, etc. lots of silly, clever nonsense, very playful with language

Oh that sounds perfect, love Spike Milligan!

The Horrid Henry early readers are quite good, one chapter of a HH book with lots of colour illustrations, and large print.

The Jolley Rogers series by Jonny Duddle are a good read too.

DD is currently working her way through the 'how to train your dragon' series

We've just had the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series here which went down a treat

Dd is reading my little pony books (they're actually not badly written, just a bit twee). She's also got the Winnie the witch chapter books, although each chapter is a different story really).
Horrid Henry went down well with dd, also Dirty Bertie made her laugh.

How about visiting a library and talking to a librarian? They might have some suggestions based on his interests.

DD - Holly Webb kitten and puppy stories.
DS - Captain Underpants, but he needs lots of help with them.

They both love Enid Blyton, Paddington and Teddy Robinson for bedtime.

Working through the David Williams books at the moment.

All about the Bullerby Children, by Astrid Lindgren. I think it has been republished as The Children of Noisy Village. Stories of the children's everyday lives, told from a heir perspective - but not so everyday for us, because they live in a Swedish farming village. Adventures like 'How we got home from school the day of the snowstorm'. Think there are sequels.

Secret Agent Jack Stalwart
Astrosaurs
Tintin
Time Hunters

--> what he picked up at last library visit.

For reading together, we just finished 'Witch baby and me' and are in the middle of 'The little house on the prairie'.

Just ordered DS2 "Beasts of Olympus"

DS is nearly 8 and we've recently enjoyed The Astounding Broccoli Boy by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the Circus Tales by Enid Blyton, David Walliams' novels (his favourite is The Demon Dentist). We're currently reading The Royal Rabbits of London by Santa & Simon Sebag Montefiore, which is shaping up rather well. Lined up after that is another Frank Cottrell Boyce novel Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth.

My DS enjoyed the 13 Storey Treehouse series, they were quite easy to get into.

My DS is 8 and he has loved diary of a wimpy kids series. It's the first set of books he has taken to and enjoyed. We have tried so many different kinds. He has read a few Tom gates and one david walliams book and said they are ok but not anywhere as funny as the wimpy kid ones.

DS2 (7.5) has just started Spy Dog: Rocket Rider

My son is 7 and he enjoys the Jeremy Strong books, Tom Gates and Roald Dahl. We've just bought him some David Walliam books too.

My nearly-7 year old still enjoys traditional fairy tales and Julia Donaldson books but also enjoys Roald Dahl and Michael Bond ( Paddington).

David walliams the worlds worst children is a book of short stories and is very popular in our house

My dd is a very reluctant but able reader she is really enjoying Jill Tomlinson - the owl who was afraid of the dark series. I actually read them to her a while ago and now she is reading them for herself.

When DD was 7 it was just non fiction on subjects that interested her.

Every Tom Gates you can shake a stick at
Ottoline

The Worst Witch series got my reluctant reader nephew hooked.
He also liked Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree books.