Which books next!

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DS (8) has loved the Tom Gates books, they've massively got him into reading! He's now only got one more book to go so I'm looking where to move next? Any ideas?

He loves humour. Has read some David Walliams ( loved them). We've got Diary of a wimpy kid? Maybe those? DS1 was abit older when he read those though so that's why I'm not sure. DS2 is a stronger reader though.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Percy Jackson?

Harry Potter?

Norm?

Mr Gum books? Any Jeremy Strong (My Brother's Famous Bottom etc)?

Big Nate and How to train your dragon series? They are very funny.

My ds recommends "Danger is everywhere" series as well.

Ooh some great ideas, thanks!

Can anyone recommend the David Baddiel books?

What about the Demon Headmaster series?

DS enjoyed all of the books by Eleanor Hawken.

Goosebumps?
How to train your dragon
Harry potter
Percy Jackson

Ds had started these at that age but also still loved Roald Dahl.

Agree Demon Headmaster series good.

The Fizzlebert Stump series
Who Let the Gods Out?

Middle School series by James Patterson.

Second Cinderella's recommendations, my 8 yr old DS also loves Mr Gum and anything Jeremy Strong.

I'd avoid Wimpy kid as long as possible, but that's because I don't like them not because DC don't!

Yes to Mr Gum which my kids also enjoyed. I feel the same way about Wimpy kid as catkind.

My DD did enjoy the David Baddiel books too.

But I also strongly second mrz suggestion of the Fizzleburt Stump series. I hadn't come across them until DS brought one home as a school reading book last week. DS is thoroughly enjoying it and I like that it is really well written with better language and vocabulary than other funny books aimed at that age group, such as the Mr Gum series.

Diary of wimpy kid and Middle School are USA equivalents but I won't read them with the dc and tell them to read those ones on their own for fun. Can't stand them!

DS has also enjoyed David Baddiel books and Helen Moss adventure island. Ali Sparkes (e.g out of this world) has also gone down well but maybe when a little more confident.

Another one against Wimpy Kid. I hate the book. It's very mean spirited and not nice at all. I really don't want my ds to think it's cool to think like Greg. My ds reads it, and loves it, and everybody in school reads it, but, I told him I don't like it (and why), and don't let him to choose it as a reading homework book.

Oliver and the Seawigs
Pugs of the frozen North
Jinks o'Hare

I read the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid with DS1 and enjoyed it. But as he was impatient to read all the other books faster than we could read each night together, he read the rest of the series by himself. For a while they became his favourite books and re-read them in bed many times. It replaced his previous favourite series of books (Horrid Henry).

Then he was given a Tom Gates book as a present and he loved it. So I bought him the rest of the series and it became his next obsession. I've never read any of the Tom Gates books, but from what he tells me they seem quite similar to the Wimpy Kid books, only that they are based in UK.

The best part of reading any of these books together is that we can comment on them, and if I think someone is behaving in a way that is not nice (e.g. Greg), I can ask DS what does he think of that, would he have done something similar, why not, etc, and it is a way to reinforce that our actions have consequences, especially if they were selfish or foolish.

Thank you for starting this thread OP, and to all the contributors. It's just what I needed for my 8 year old DD. Some of the suggestions she's read, but I hadn't heard of Fizzlebert Stump or Who Let The Gods Out and they look right up her street.
For various reasons we haven't looked at the David Baddiel books, it would be easier to keep it that way but are we missing out on literary masterpiece?

Thanks everyone! I've just ordered a fizzlebert book, something about doing PE in your pants. Sounds right up DS's street

Yes to Wimpy Kid at 8. Definitely Mr Gum.
What about Captain Underpants? DS(9) has read about six of these in a couple of weeks.
He's now enjoying The Parent Agency by David Baddiel. (I find many of his sentences over-long.)

The Carpet People (Terry Pratchett)
Agree to Roald Dahl too.

Place marking for reference ds 7 is running out of books xx

My 8 year old son LOVES the 13-Storey Treehouse series (13, 26, 39 ...) by Andy Griffiths. He is currently chomping at the bit for the next one (which I think is not out until August). He is always laughing out loud when reading them, and then has to read me bits which he thinks are particularly funny. It actually makes me happy to watch him reading them which sounds a bit sappy but his enjoyment is almost palpable. They are done in quite a comic book style, like Tom Gates but more pictures, though still plenty of text for actual reading. I like them because they're bonker silly humour rather than the mean spiritedness of Horrid Henry or Wimpy Kid. And I think the Book People have a set of the first 6 for £9.99!!

David Baddiel big hit here

Thanks nonicknames we will have a look at Baddiel