Kids books

[Alwaysploddingon]

I have a bookworm 7 year old daughter so starting a thread on favourite books.
At the moment it's the --story treehouse books.
She also loves her weekly phoenix.

In the past it's been:
Rainbow grey by Laura Anderson.
Dog man.
Bunny Vs monkey
Mr men books
Enid bylon fairy tales
Dick king smith books.
What are your favourites?
A librarian recommended impossible creatures by Kathleen rundel but DD wanted the treehouse book instead.

Laura Anderson has a new series star kitties my DD might love but she would read Amelia fang. She loves evil emperor penguin, as do I.

Anything by Pamela buchart. Hilarious!

DS was very much a fan of Flat Stanley around that age.

Oh yes, she has read flat Stanley

Donut Squad? DS loves that.
He’s currently reading the second Percy Jackson book - The Sea of Monsters.
The Loki books are fab - The Bad Gods Guide to Being Good.

@APurpleSquirrel donut squad is in the phoenix, it's been quite a main feature recently. And the phoenix is her favourite thing. I'll look up those other books

There are two Donut Squad books - one came out last year & the other earlier this month. My DS gets the Phoenix too (he loves it!). He’s enjoyed those books although did say a few of the strips from the issues were in the books but also new material.

DD is 5 and at the moment she's reading the Mirabelle books, which are a spin off of Isadora Moon. They're quite challenging for her to read so we usually take turns reading chapters. She also loves the Rainbow Fairy books and is reading the Beginner Reader series. They are dreadful but she likes them.

Other recent favourites (most of these we read to her):

• All the Roald Dahl books
• The Worst Witch
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• 5 Children and It
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret

I'm also reading Floella Benjamin's Coming to England to her at the moment as we live in a very white area and she's made some comments recently that have worried me. I have read her books about Ruby Bridges and Rosa Parks too.

The Wind in the Willows is a beautifully written book and worth reading out loud to a child.

I know C.S. Lewis gets a lot of criticism now, but he was a superb writer. Vastly superior to J K Rowling.

The Hobbit is great. I enjoyed it more than the Lord of the Rings.

I’d also encourage her to try Roald Dahl. He can be dark, but then life is dark, and Dahl is a great way of helping children cope with that. The first book I truly loved was Dahl’s Boy.

My youngest is now 12 but around that age favourites were...
Mr Penguin books and Claude books.. (both by Alex Smith, with the Claude books being easier)
Jolly Rodgers
Zoes Rescue Zoo
Hotel Flamingo
Fabulous the Flamingo detective

And slightly older...Adventures on Trains.

I’ve an almost 7 year old bookworm daughter and her current top choices are:
Isadora Moon
Mirabelle
Emerald
Hotel Flamingo
Meet the Twitches
Mummy Fairy and Me
Princess in Black
Izzy the Inventor
The Worst Witch
Amelia Fang
Fairytale Ninjas
Wigglesbottom Primary
The Wishkeepers Apprentice
Agatha Parrot
Maisie Hitchins
Ivy + Bean
Princess DisGrace
Penny Dreadful
Mariella Mystery
Dotty Detective

I’m looking forward to introducing some of the classics!

That's a great list @AllTheNames

@APurpleSquirrel is your ds doing the donut squad online workshop tomorrow? We're busy so not and haven't done any workshops. If you have, does ds enjoy it? I'd like to encourage her to do more drawing, as she used to but hasn't so much recently. My dds favourite was the island with no name, she's hoping for a return. Maybe I should get her a classic shipwreck story. Otherwise she says she likes reading all of them, but I think Toby and the pixies is good.

@AllTheNames I've reserved some of those books from the library.