Books to read aloud

[JackiePears]

I love reading aloud to my two DSs (aged 9 and 11) and so far, they still quite like it....

We've been through all of the David Walliams, liked a lot of Ali Sparkes (Car jacked being a big favourite), but didn't get on so well with the latest Cressida Cowell (despite loving How to Train Your Dragon series).

Does anyone have any recommendations on good books to read aloud?

What aged did you stop reading aloud to your kids?

Thanks!

Stig of The Dump
Tom's Midnight Garden
The Parent Agency
The Explorers
Ghosts of the Forest by Steve Backshall
Danny, Champion of The World
Cosmic
Kensuke's Kingdom

I'm still reading to mine, and if we can't read, we listen to an audio book in the car.

Edge Chronicles
Jules Verne
The Hobbit

Anything and everything, for as long as they’ll let you. My next sibling was six years younger, which meant I got to listen in on both my parents reading aloud long after they might assumed I no longer wanted to listen.

Most recently, “My Family And Other Animals” has had my boy in stitches at bedtime.

Authors who really know how to wield language are the most fun to read out loud; “The Sword In The Stone” was great fun to read, as was “Haroun And The Sea Of Stories”.

My son is younger but he and I both love pippi longstocking. If they don't mind a female lead, it's so funny.

Stunt Double by Tamsin Cooke. My DD 11 loves her books, I no longer read allowed to her but I know she listens and sometimes joins us when I read your ds 7.

Eric Linklater - "The Pirates on the Deep Green Sea" and "The Wind on the Moon", the "Doctor Doolittle" series, the "Last Legionary" quartet by Douglas Hill, "Starstormers" series (or anything else come to think of it!) by Nicholas Fisk.
Enid Blyton's "Barney" and "The XXX of Adventure" series - my youngest DS has loved all of these, he's 11 now and we're still finishing off the Blyton one and Dr. Doolittle ones.

I had 'The Weirdstone of Brisingamen' read aloud to me when I was ten and it remains one of the most memorable and thrilling books of my childhood.

On a similar note (but save it for December) 'The Dark is Rising' by Susan Cooper. It is supremely festive and creepy in equal measure.

Also a fabulous book to read aloud is 'The Iron Man' by Ted Hughes. Short but gripping.

I've just downloaded this eBook to read to my 5 year old: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DF9XGYC/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&keywords=linton+saves+the+island&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1527797970&sr=1-1

Have flicked through it and the poetry and illustrations seem great. I'm sure my son will love it as a bedtime story

Ds is 10yo. We're currently reading James Herriot's It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (BBC adaption All Creatures Great and Small). He's loving it, although there is a bit of swearing in it. It has put him off any ideas of being a vet though

Books I've read with him over the last few years include:

Lone Pine Series (Malcolm Saville)
Biggles
Just William
War Horse
Cue for Treason
Swish of the Curtain and sequels
Various Enid Blyton
My Family and Other Animals
Several books by Monica Edwards
Naitabal Series (David Schutte)
Little House series
Violet Needham's Black Rider Series
Alex Rider
Cherub
Most of the Narnia Chronicles
Swallows and Amazons and others
The Machine Gunners

Was reading Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur trilogy to DS1 (10) but now he wants to finish it on his own. Suddenly don't get to read to him as much so have gone for short stories that can be done in an evening or two.