Done before I'm sure but book recs please - yr 1

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Sorry if this is repeating old threads, I have tried to search.
Ds is in year 1 (young in his year but with reading age of 7 apparently).
He isn't overly interested in reading for pleasure, so I'm looking for exciting books that will hold his interest. Either suitble for him to read to us or independently, but also I'm looking for recommendations that we could read to him so they could be more advanced ones too.

He has previously enjoyed the gaskitt books, fantastic mr fox (us to read to him) and for his reading he still likes books like funnybones. He finds a lot of books at the right sort of 'level' for him to read fairly boring though..
Thank you.

the original paddington chapter books are great and really quite funny, he could read the picture book versions and you could read him the longer chapter book ones.
lighthouse keeper - they have now been published in an early reader chapter book style.

Astrosaurs. Dirty Bertie. Horrid Henry. Calvin & Hobbes. TinTin. The Beano. Boys Rule series.

All of the above, also Jeremy Strong, Magic Treehouse, Mr Majeka, Oliver Moon - all good series that he could probably read on his own.

Julia Donaldson has written some early readers - the wrong kind of bark, the little brown fox cub among others, they would appeal to boys and girls I think (I have girls so a lot of our books seem too sparkly to recommend to you). Corgi Pups are good (Dogbird, Dog on a Broomstick went down well in this house), Dick King Smith (Happy Mouseday particularly popular with DD1), Colour Young Puffin as well. My daughter is just enjoying reading The Witches Dog and the Flying Carpet by Frank Rodgers which is a colour young puffin. also Usborne books are great whether fiction or non fiction. The Beginners series are designed for book band 8/9 to read themselves, huge range of subjects. the Young Reading Series 1 books are book band 10 I think and Series 2 are 11 I think. Lots of stories, colour pictures, Series 2 includes a lot of old classics rewritten.

I'd second Jeremy Strong. There are lots of other Roald Dahl books too - George's Marvellous Medicine is a good one or possibly The Twits.

A good starter for paperback reading (if he likes spooky books) is the Tremors series - our library had the whole set. They're quite hard to spot on Google but this is one.

www.amazon.co.uk/Claygate-Hound-Tremors-Jan-Dean/dp/0750250356/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379424653&sr=1-4&keywords=tremors

We also liked the Horrid Henry books and Horrible History books are good for reading to him. Mine really liked any kind of joke book as well.

Usborne do some good factual books like this one:

www.amazon.co.uk/See-Inside-Space-little-Usborne/dp/0746087594/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379425050&sr=1-4&keywords=usborne+childrens+books#reader_0746087594

The body one is good and the science one too.

Usborne Young Readers have various levels and cover lots of mystical stories and classical adventure stories. There also do simple fact books my DD loves like this one:

www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Usborne-Beginners-Stephanie-Turnbull/dp/0746074409/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1379428040&sr=8-4&keywords=usborne+beginners

Magic Treehouse is great as well.

Horrid Henry and Oliver Moon are both popular with DS. Recently we had some good early readers from Sainsbury's which appealed to DS. If your DS is into football Frank Lampard has just written some children's books featuring a boy called Frankie. Just ordered them on a recommendation from someone else so can't tell you whether they are any good or not!

Read him Jeremy Strong if you haven't. Big hit with DS. We read to him and now he reads to himself. Have you done Horrid Henry? Same with that one. Both had DS reading like nothing else. DS liked/s Usborne Book for Boys too. Captain Underpants, Astrosaurs...etc!

Read him Mr Gum. They are hilarious and got my DD reading on ahead (just make sure you read them in order or you wont get the characters)

Happy Families books are fab (Mr Creep the Crook etc)

Just wanted to say thank you for the recommendations. I am currently reading him a Jeremy strong book and he loves it! I might pause at an exciting bit to 'do some jobs' and see if he reads on himself ...