reading for a six year old boy? young Bond novels by Charlie Higson?

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I'm looking for recommendations for my godson aged 6. his father has watched Bond films with him which he loves - also WW2 history films. he seemslso to like history generally...

any thoughts?

thanks T4T

DS adores Captain Underpants books

how about the Horrid Histories? Not novels but DS (7) loves them.

My DS is really into the Captain Underpants books too ATM
If he is into history though hoow about the Horrible History range

Asterix also good

I recommend looking through the Book People

great value, great books

how good is 6 year old's reading .. do you want read to self or read to him

Jack Stalwart books have gone down very well - about a 9yo secret agent, based in different countries around the world, so good for geography (but less so for history, unless you could the one about a dinosaur that escapes from a museum!)

greek myths go down a storm

I assume he has the roald dahl collection ("12.99 for 10 on the book people)

I tried Greek myths on mine (both with me reading, and ones for him to read) and they fell flat, but mine is only just 6.

For some bizarre reason he loves the Mrs Pepperpot stories (though I seem to have mislaid the book).

My ds didn't like the Young Bond first book - and I think they're for older children. I second Horrible Histories - there are loads, including activity books, sticker books, etc. You could get a main book, eg Vile Victorians, plus the accompanying sticker book.

horrible histories

PSML at typo though .. The terrible Tutors

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I'm getting those

Ds (5.9) likes 'information books', as he calls them. He pores over books giving facts about wild animals and dinosaurs, and also loves history - knights and castles, the ladybird history series (Robert the Bruce is hero of the moment).

He also loves the National Geographic Kids magazine.

yes fact books go down well here too .. the I wonder why series are good

Can't recommend highly enough Robert Sabuda pop-up books (they're not childish) .. they are amazingly beautiful and breathtaking

Think Bond may be too old yet. Usborne do some great early readers - fiction , faction and factual ! Includes some fairy tales, revamped classics and Greek myths.

my ds loves this book called Tractionman
About an action man figure - very boy oriented and funny.

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God yes. Robert Sabuda. The dinosaur one took my breath away. A fantastic present.

Try Horrid Henry, any of the shorter Roald Dahl, Dirty Bertie. There are lots of challenging picture books worth reading together like The Paperbag Prince and others of similar length and complexity.

ladies! look at you go! a flood of answers - i'm really grateful. funny, I've just sent an email to his mum saying how I liked Greek myths and Roald Dahl when i was that age. perhaps reading interests can be similar with boys and girls alike.

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Helping Hercules - by the woman who writes Horrid Henry, Francesca someone, if Greek myths are your thing...

The Grk books by Joshua Doder are excellent - I have been reading them to my 7yo ds1.
I also loved the Cynthia Harnett books when I was a child - still do - historical and thoroughly absorbing.
And how about Arthur Ransome?

Second the recommendation of the Usborne Early Readers series, they are brilliant and got ds reading to himself.
Choose the Horrible Histories volumes with care - the more recent ones, because of their inevitable links with how we live today, are very distressing for younger children IME.
A good history book which contains plenty of stories for this sort of age is Geraldine McCaughrean's Britannia - stories from Britain's history. Some of the stories are by necessity more upsetting than others - but from Hereward the Wake to the Torrey Canyon via Grace Darling there's loads here to enjoy.
On another thread we were discussing the Roman Mysteries by Caroline Lawrence. Someone who has read them all with her ds said that the series was like Harry Potter in that the earlier volumes are fine for younger readers, and the complexities/scariness factors increase as the series progresses. We are just starting the first volume, The Thieves of Ostia, and that is fine for ds, aged 7.

Forgot to say, I read one of the Young Bond novels and think they are maybe a bit intense/scary for a 6yo.

But I really would not let a six year old near either Young Bond or the Alex Rider series. Lovely in theory but too graphic in practice IMO