ds1, 8, would like 'adventure books'...ideas?

[elliott]

Ds1 has requested 'adventure books' - not sure what he means by that. He's read and enjoyed enid blyton mysteries so I think he perhaps means some good old 'boys own' type adventures. Don't know where to start though!
Thanks for any ideas

My son was into the alex rider series at this sort of age. They are great fun, espionage type stories. First one is stormbreaker. He also loved the spy dogs series about a dog called lara who was a highly trained spy. Will look at his shelves tomorrow. X.

Maybe some of the Young James Bond adventures by Charlie Higson? Oh, just spotted they're aimed at age 10 and over, and I've just read the first one, and it did have some rather yucky bits, so maybe not quite yet, unless he's particularly robust!

Hardy Boys
Swallows and Amazons
Treasure Island

all old fashioned but still good

Agree with the Alex Rider books. My DS was about 8 or 9 when he started getting in to them in a really big way. He did all the Famous Five before them well.

my brother loved the willard price adventure series

they are not very PC though - lads travelling all over the world 'collecting' wild animals - but they are definitely old-fashioned adventure stories

Definately the Swallows and Amzons series. My 8 year old is Enid Blyton adventure type books mad and he has so enjoyed that series. Also, has your son read the "Adventure" series from Blyton? Sea of Adventure, Valley of Adventure, etc. They are great.

ooh thanks for the suggestions.
I do want to try him with Swallows and Amazons as I absolutely loved them, but I think he may not quite have the reading stamina required yet -they are quite chunky!
I like the sound of the willard price books! and will also try alex rider - thought they might be a bit old for him though (he is actually not quite 8, but will be in about 10 days!)
I'd quite like to gently wean him away from enid blyton though...!

Famous Five or secret seven? Not literary giants but jolly good fun...

Dunno if this is any use but my DS (8) has really got into this series of books just recently and so have all the boys in his class.

Anything by Michael Murpurgo is also a winner.

Good luck weaning him away from Enid Blyton - I have not succeeded with my 8 year old!

However, what I have done is got him to widen his interests through what I read TO him. We started with Swallows and Amazons (and the rest of the series) and have now moved onto some classics like Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables and the Railway Children. These are not books he would have ever agreed to read, but we peaked his interest by talking about how much we enjoyed them as children and he has really enjoyed having them read to him. They are not books I think he could have enjoyed reading alone (though he has a reading age of well above his age.

My DD2-7 really enjoys the Jack Stalwart series, which she gets from the library. She tends to enjoy books aimed at boys, which these are.

Yes, I think I should try that strategy of reading them to him. He tends to have rather fixed ideas and be reluctant to try new things - but once he is hooked on something, he'll lap it up!

That description fits my son to a t.

Ds is 7 and we're reading our way through a series of Cressida Cowell books about vikings and dragons - How to twist a dragon's tail, How to be a Pirate, How to speak Dragonese etc. I read them to ds - he isn't quite at the stage of wanting to read them by himself. We both love them!! We're having a break from them at the moment because we've read all the ones I'd bought and the couple we'd borrowed from the library but I have got one signed for Christmas so will get back into them then.

We are currently reading Cows In Action and it's not won me over yet. I think ds likes it and could probably read it alone but we both quite like the 'chapter before bed' routine so I have to put up with this one (book) for now but won't be rushing out to buy any more from the series.

Also, my sister just lent me her Harry Potter books which I thought would be good to start after Christmas.