books for year two boys - Marina? Roisin? Anyone?

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You've both given me some great ideas in the past for books for ds and it's now coming up to Christmas and I would like put some more on his christmas list.

He's reading pretty well on his own now (currently tackling Harry Potter, reading alternate chapters with me) and I'd like to encourage that further, so some books he can read alone but also some more comlicated ones for me to read to him.

We've just had the Cressida Cowell ones and he loved those. Greek myths went down well too and the Narnia books.

Any ideas/ recommendations?

before he is READY!!

DS loves Roald Dahl and those Ricky Ricotta ones.

He is nearly 8. The Updike example was the Rabbit books, he thought they were about animals. It's the spine titles!
But as you say, the major hassle is sifting through all the excellent confident younger reader fiction around these days, and deciding what will fit with your child's fear/comprehension threshold. It's a puzzler sometimes.

I have to say I find it so much easier with DD2 who is six and reading at a reasonable level for her age - she can read for instance Roald Dahl or those dangblasted fairy books or Enid Blyton by herself, but would probably struggle with, say, Harry Potter.
DD1 on the other hand, at the same age, had outgrown all of the obvious authors and I had a really hard time finding appropriate material for her. She was reading E Nesbit and so on at six, but the majority of the books that were complex enough for her reading needs were too much on another level - she was given Jacqueline Wilson's The Illustrated Mum at school for instance which I felt was wildly inappropriate - and I am quite liberal by most standards.

I've just seen this.
Looks like I'm redundant

Don't say that Roisin! DD2 is going to be seven this month. Any suggestions for birthday books for her. I saw Lucy Willow by Sally Gardner in Waterstones the other day and plan to get her that, but would like a few more books that are a bit more individual than the stuff she normally reads (Daisy Meadowes, Enid Blyton, Linda Chapman)

Don't say that Roisin! The number of ideas you've given me for ds - and not just on the books front either!