Chapter Books to be read to 4 year old boy

[Elf]

Sorry if this has been covered before.

I feel DS is on the cusp of moving on to having chapter books read to him at bedtime and am at a loss as to what to try. He's just turned four.

Mumsnet helped me with DD1 when I got to this stage and I feel well away with her but could do with some pointers for boys. Thank you all.

There's quite a lot to choose from. There is Horrid Henry, Captain Underpants (not always parents choice but children love them!) and there is also a series called Books for Boys. I am a children's bookseller and sell all these (& more!) discounted. I'll pm you to tell you the name of the site as I don't think I can advertise on these discussions!

Lucy

Will watch this with interest - DS has just turned 4 too, and in the same situation.

Charlie and the chocolate factory; Georges marvelous medicine- both by Roald Dahl

Flat Stan;ley

We get 2 great books every week from the library for ds (3.11)
I will look into these though.

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Hi Elf, I started a thread on this last spring. Will try to link to it.

Some of the suggestions we tried were:

101 Dalmations (this was a bit hard going because the language is a bit outdated)

James and the Giant Peach (great success)

Jeremy James (we are reading this at the moment and I love it)

We have also enjoyed Akimbo books by Alastair McCall Smith, set in Africa.

I have mentioned this before several times, but if you can get hold of any Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf books do try them. Not remotely boy-specific but they are just so good and funny. Each chapter is a self-contained story, so I don't know if it counts as a chapter book. I would also have said that Captain Underpants is good for getting boys reading but would drive most people round the bend in terms of bedtime reading, it's like reading a comic.

I don't like Horrid Henry.

another vote for charlie and the chocolate factory

found it

Another vote for Flat Stanley. Loved it

DD loved Flat Stanley too.

'Elephants don't sit on cars' and the other Jeremy James books. I love them because they have bits which are funny for the adult reading too...

I see I recommended JJ on your thread too, Otherside!

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we have enjoyed Milly Molly Mandy, My Naughty Little Sister, Pippi Longstocking and the Aurora series, but they are all about girls (he doesn't seem to mind)

we also have things like The Owl who was afraid of the dark, the Oz books (although need a bit of censoring in very gory parts - a surprising amount of heads being chopped off ), the Alice in Wonderland books (ditto on heads of course), Ruth Manning Sanders' fairy tale collections, and the absolute best ever IMO is the books about the Bullerby children (Astrid Lindgren). A lot of these I have mentioned are out of print but they are all worth seeking out.

oh the Jamie and Angus stories are nice and about a boy for a change. Anne Fine

Hope you dont mind.......

My son is 4 and we've recently started him on Roald Dahl books, his fav is Georges marv medicine and the witches. I definatly rate Roald Dahl and ds and dd aged6 really enjoys them too.

JJ is well worth recommending over and over again Rusty bear. I really look forward to my nightly dose at the moment.

gosh, my ds will be 5 in april and loves books but it had not crossed my mind to move onto chapter books yet.

will give this some thought...

I don't think anyone has mentioned Fantastic Mr Fox - personally I think this is the best Roald Dahl for little kids. Nice short chapters, gripping tale.