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Hi, DS1 is 8 but is a very good reader and has gobbled up Harry Potter and the like.. Wayward School...How to train your dragon.. Charlie Bone... and more other sets than I can recall!


Anyone got any suggestions for books he might like? Series are good as once he reads one he wants to read more ...

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Ted Hughes - The Iron man

Varjak Paw series by SF Said (quite an easy read, it even has some pictures, but deals with good issues for kids)

Philip Pulman - I was a rat

Stig of the Dump

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase


Incidentally I was trying to get my kids to read Swallows and Amazons last year as I had enjoyed it so much as a kid, but I think it reads quite turgidly these days - my kids didnt like it much - and now I've looked at it more closely I can see why...have alook at the text before you recommend it to him. Not true of Stig who reads as well now as he ever did!!

gwod Wrote:

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> Ted Hughes - The Iron man

> Varjak Paw series by SF Said (quite an easy read,

> it even has some pictures, but deals with good

> issues for kids)

> Philip Pulman - I was a rat

> Stig of the Dump

> The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

>

> Incidentally I was trying to get my kids to read

> Swallows and Amazons last year as I had enjoyed it

> so much as a kid, but I think it reads quite

> turgidly these days - my kids didnt like it much

> - and now I've looked at it more closely I can see

> why...have alook at the text before you recommend

> it to him. Not true of Stig who reads as well now

> as he ever did!!



Agreed re S &A I started reading Pigeon Post to him and the text is quite longwinded. We have a version of S*A on Cd which is brilliant though

I loved the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. Much better than Narnia in my opinion. Would really recommend them if he likes that sort of thing, which it sounds like he does. Others that spring to mind would be "A tale of time city" and "Howl's moving castle", both by Diana Wynne Jones.
It might be worth a trip to Tales on Moon Lane in Herne Hill - they have a great section at the back with lots of choices to browse, and are probably pretty good at suggesting (don't know this for a fact, as haven't asked, but they are a good well-informed book shop)

Something a bit different, but I loved Gordon Korman (Canadian) around that age. It appears that he has written tons since I last read him (back in the early 80s) and I don't know anything about his new stuff, but from the list at the attached link I remember the MacDonald Hall series and lots of the older books in the "Novels" section, especially "No Coins Please":

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/gordon-korman/

Polly D Wrote:

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> He sounds like my nephew (aged 10 but English not

> his first language). He loves The Famous Five. Any

> good?


He has worked his way through a few though he refers the Wishing tree etc


I forget what other Enid Blyton is about magic...

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