Brilliant Book For A 4 and A Half 5 Year Old Boy

[colette]

I would like to buy my nephew a book for xmas, he is starting school in January .
I have spent hours looking at websites, even downloading extracts and am none the wiser. Please would you recommend a book your son has loved.
please help

picture book for now or something a little "older" to grow into?

Robinpud something a little older 9 but some pictires) iykwim.

Thanks Californifrau I like the mole book dh has washing machine in parts on the kitchen floor and has still not fixed . Will check later thanks for the replies . will be watching this space

both my sons love 'the tiger that came to tea'!

The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark / Jill Tomlinson

Jamie and Angus stories / Anne Fine

These are both chapter books fab for reading aloud at bedtime

I bought a hard back book 'Percy the Park Keeper Treasury' for £7.50 the other day. Have bought it for my 6 yo ds. Not sure what the stories are like yet but it is a beautiful book with some coloured pictures in. Author is Nick Butterworth.

Oh ds also obsessed with Winnie the Witch. The first two are ok but after that they get pretty bad.

Hmm Can't beat Horrid Henry but my ds who is 5 is loving the Sally Gardener books.. the boy with the lightening feet and similar. I would also consider an Usborne information books as there are so many great ones now such as this one here

I don't have a four year old son but I love, love, LOVE..

The Rascally Cake by Korky Paul

"Mr Rufus Skumskins O'Parsley
Wouldn't eat supper unless it was ghastly"

and buy it for kids that age or older. It's a picture book but lots of rhyming text.

...sorry, it's illustrated by Korky Paul. Written by Jeanne Willis.

loads of Korky Paul ones are fab- the dog that dug etc etc

DS loves the Dr Seuss books - e.g Sneetchers, or One Fish, Two Fish.

the large family
or the alfie books
ro a rudeimentary joke book

Thanks for the replies - I love looking at children's books. He has Alfie and the large family cod- so do we.
I will look the others up .Thanks for the link zippy34 it looks great