He's read all the Captain Underpants and Horrid Henry. What can we try next?

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DS is 6, and a great reader, loves to read to himself at night (and when he wakes up TOO Early).

But now looking for ideas.

We're reading Terry Pratchetts 'Truckers' together at bedtime, but thats too difficult for him by himself. Any suggestions please?

Will be watching this thread. Our two are grest fans of captain underpants and we were wondering where to go next

MISS WIZZ BOOKS

Buster Baylis perhaps?
Martin Jarvis' careful re-workings of the Just William volumes?
Flat Stanley?

All in p/b and all went down well with ds, also a keen young reader.

Can highly recommend the Usborne Series of Early Readers which have some great volumes of Arthurian legends, Greek myth stuff, all just the right level and nicely produced.

Roald Dahl. The Twits, Fantastic Mr. Fox and George's Marvellous Medicine ... these are all good short ones to start him off. Then he can go onto Charlie and the Chocolate Factory etc.

I like Micheal Morpurgo's stuff too.

Esio Trot's my favourite easy Dahl...

My ds likes Jeremy strong, have you done roald dahl? I know they are not pc but he loves Enid blyton adventure books, has read all of the secrets ones..... island, of moon castle etc and couldn't get enough, is dying to read famous five next.

Oh, we got Georges Marvellous Medicine from the library a couple of months ago, I'd forgotten that. Some of the Dahl stuff is harder tho' isn't it?

Some are, they vary. Jeremy strong writes over a range, giant jim and the hurricane is a good one to try first he loved that one, lots of giggling when he was meant to be asleep Then there are more that are harder that we are waiting for him to read.

Mr Majeika- Humphrey Carpenter
Definitely agree with Flat Stanley

Dick King Smith stuff- although my dd didn't take to it

Just remembered, he was given a rupert the bear book which he loves, it's in small bits so good for him to read to me, some big words but has been good for his vocab and loads of pictures which is great.

Roddy Doyle's Gigglers series is very good in a surreal sense abd ds aged 7 loves them.

My DS (7) is/was also a big HH and CU fan. Second all the suggestions on here - Mr Majeika in particular was a big hit, and he is now going through a Jeremy Strong phase - he particularly liked the "Hundred Mile an Hour Dog" and sequel, and is finding "Krazy Kow" hilarious.

He's also read lots of Dahl and stuff. Dick K-S has never been a hit with him either, though he did (bizarrely) like the Kitty books (Bel Mooney and clearly 'girly').

And, to my disappointment, he prefers "The Beano" to everything else!
HTH

Cressida Cowell's How to train your dragon is fabulous (and there are two sequels).

You can't tell from the cover, but if you look inside the book the illustrations give the impression it is very much a HH sort of book ... but it's not! It's very well written, and is rather more challenging than HH. But the kids don't realise this, as they look at it and assume it is HH level. It's also full of jokes, and is hysterical in parts, plus adventure and 'mortal peril' ... what more could you want?!

Another book which is a fairly-easy read, fantastic writing, gripping story by a fantastic author is The Legend of Spud Murphy Get it - you won't be able to put it down ... and nor will he!
Rumour has it there's another one coming out in this series by Eoin Colfer this week.

Finally - ds2 (same age as you know) prefers non-fiction books atm.

What about The Fried Piper of Hamlyn and Cinderboy and the others in the series =they may be too easy, but my ds (6) enjoys them

mine never liked dick king smith
id do narnia adn judy moody and clarice bean

yes jeeremy strong v good

Oh yes Easy, those Laurence Anholt books Pollyanna recommends are absolutely fabulous. Full of ridiculous puns. Some of them actually made me laugh out loud the first time I heard them. I'm sure they would suit your ds1 down to the ground.

Daft Jack and the beanstalk is one of the best IMO.

Yes, we also all liked the Laurence Anholt fairy tales!

DD (7) adores Horrid Henry, Roald Dahl, Dr Seuss and Jacqueline Wilson. Dahl varies a lot from Esio Trot and Fantastic Mr Fox for the younger age group to Danny Champion of the World for slightler older children. Dr Seuss boos are colour coded for different reading abilities. Jacqueline Wilson's protagonists are always girls, but DS (11) sometimes listens.

The Magical Children series by Sally Gardner is another hit for this sort of stage. It's easier than some of the other material I've recommended, but tends to capture the imagination of most 6-7 yr olds, and keep them turning the pages, with some great illustrations too.

My ds enjoys the Ricky Ricotta paperbacks. But best of all is Secrets of Droon, there are about 20 of them, he reads them every night. (he is 6 too).

my ds 8, loved those books, how to train your dragon as mentioned. he got a set of books for christmas by Alexander Mccall smith? think thats the author(usually writes adults books) these are called things like 'popcorn pirates''the doughnut ring'

I agree with many of the recommendations here - ds (6) has enjoyed the Mr Majeika books, the Seriously Silly stories (by Laurence Anholt), and anything by Jeremy Strong (I'm glad Krazy Kow is good, singersgirl - we have just got it for ds!). He has read Harry Potter and is also enjoying the Lemony Snicket books at bedtime at the moment - though I did have reservations that these might be a bit too old for him.

The Cressida Cowell book sounds good.

If you want something to tempt readers towards the Cressida Cowell books: one of the £1 World Book Day books (in March) is going to be "How to train your Pirate" (by Toothless)

DSs are looking forward to it already