Please recommend a good book for a 5-year-old boy

[soppy]

Xmas present idea needed please! He's a very boyish boy, not into books that much but I'd like to encourage him ....

does he like funny stories?

If so try Horrid Henry or Miss Whizz

Ds loves them

My children like the series by Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz. They are all silly rhyme books.
"Rumble in the jungle", "Commotion in the ocean" and "farmyard hullabaloo". Also another book by Giles Andreae but this time with Nick Sharratt is "Pants". DS and DD (4+6) think this book is hilarios and of course most 5 year old boys find the word "pants" funny.

Dr Seuss

Ooh, HH looks good - which one?

What about starting to read him a chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory every night? Roald Dahl is fab. We also read Charlotte's Web and have just started on the Famous Five (but ds is 7, may not have liked it earlier. I don't much like reading them, I have to say!) Will post again if I think of anything else.

Will check all those out, amynnixmum! Oh and Dr Seuss, yes of course

Would love to read with him every night but he lives on the other side of London! Sorry, it's for my nephew - shouldve said

Good suggestions www, thank you

the 1st one is just called

Horrid Henry,

followed by:
HH and the secret club
HH tricks the tooth fairy
HH nits
HH gets rich quick
HH haunted house
HH mummy's curse
HH revenge

Try also "captain underpants" which is very funny too.

My dad gets them very cheaply from book club I think it is, as a set.

Capt Underpants looks hilarious. Nephew is just about to turn 5 - not too old for him?

All Thomas the Tank Engine books go down very well in our house (DS is 5 and a half)

not sure maybe wait til another few years.

go for HH deffo brill

They are very good

DS is 9 and still loves them although he knows them all

Jeff Brown's \www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060097914/qid=1101585631/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/026-4812066-4508405\Flat Stanley} books are hysterical. (I was first recommended them on here). The Book People are doing an offer atm - all 5 books for £6.

Or how about a non-fiction book? They can be very popular with reluctant readers. Maybe something about dinosaurs? Or volcanoes?

Whoops - what happened there?

Jeff Brown's try this for Flat Stanley

famous five

Our ds loves Flat Stanley too Roisin. I'd never heard of him before we got the books.
Soppy, does he have any crazes (knights/football/Turtles/monsters) etc, there are usually some good stories about in any of these categories. Ds is knight-obsessed at the mo and likes the Sir Gadabout series as well as King Arthur stories retold for younger children...

We like the Mr Majeica series.

Or something like the "Where's Wally" or "Spot What" books. Not stories but great fun and good for encouraging concentration and observation.
DS1(5) loves them.

Depends if he's reading on his own as in Tescos they have starting to read books in hardback, think they are £3 each. Unless he's a fantastic reader it will be a while before he can read some of the others unaccompanied. What about an annual then there's lots of pictures too.

Great selection of suggestions, thanks! Only craze seems to be Spiderman - can't find much in the way of annuals. He's not reading on his own much yet. Will work my way through this list. Many thanks.