Please help me find some good reading books for ds (7)

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Ds who is 7 is a very good reader and his reading is of a 9 year old. He really enjoys reading and particularly enjoyed this one here . I would be so grateful if you could recommend any other books that he may enjoy.
I was thinking of buying him some more of Eoin Colfer's but they seemed a bit "adult". The EC one he did get was a birthday present. Thanks

Roisin - strangely enough I'm reading Alice in Wonderland to the girls at the moment (DD1 has heard it before and read it twice but DD2 is not familiar with it). I have to say that I'm finding it rather hard going; some chapters work well but many of them don't do it for me either.

Philippa Pearce is a great classic writer...Minnow on the Say, Tom's Midnight Garden, A Dog so Small...

Roisin, Binkie, I can't stand Lewis Carroll...be interesting to see what ds makes of it. At the moment he is in the pro-Narnia Camp with me, while dh pouts crossly outside ("poorly executed snobby Christian propaganda" etc)

Another lovely book is Paul Biegel's King of the Copper Mountains.

roisin, I must say I never thought I'd disagree with you! - Phantom T is one of my all-time favourites - I've carried around pictures and echoes of it long as I can remember - the Doldrums, "sshh, for it goes without saying", colour-as-music, the (OK rather pi) message about you're only as bored as you let yourself be. Much of the charm is the Jules Feiffer illustrations.

Alice in Wonderland a different thing. I remember it was our set book for a term when I was about sevenish and actually quite enjoyed the very slow reading and wondering that happens when a whole class is "doing" it. Don't think I would have sat down & read it like a story.

I never came across it until ds1 read it 2 or 3 years ago. Maybe if I'd grown up with it ..! I must read it to ds2 to see how he responds.

I've always loved The Little Prince, but ds1 didn't like it at all