Can anyone suggest a series of books to read with my children? I have an 8 year old boy and a 3 year old girl. Thanks in advance.
Can anyone suggest a series of books to read with my children? I have an 8 year old boy and a 3 year old girl. Thanks in advance.
Suggest you ask the children’s staff at the local library.
Thank you I will try that 🙂
You can’t go wrong with the works of Beverly Cleary. I also think the 3 year old would really like “Morris Goes to School”, which is one of my favorite kid books. Also, Dr. Suess.
Thank you
Magic tree house and Geronimo Stilton are always great
Oh! Also Magic School Bus!!!!
Also goosebumps
I’ve always loved A Series of Unfortunate Events.
I was going to suggest this one as well.
TRY finding WONDLA, it also has fun pictures in it. There is three books in all.
Wishbone, Berenstain Bears, Charlie and Lola, Clifford, animal ark, Paddington, spiderwick chronicles, Judy moody, Junie B Jones, saddle club, main street, Amber Brown, I survived (historical fiction series)
Alice in Wonderland would be of interest to both ages. As well as anything by Rohld Dahl (Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, etc).
i <3 the berenstain bears
YES!!!
Lewis Caroll; Paddington; Beatrix Potter
Percy Jackson and Childers of the famine trilogy
Narnia
A Series of Unfortunate Events
The chronicles of Narnia
A series of Unfortunate Events
Junie B Jones
Amelia Bedelia
Pippi Longstocking
Bad kitty is good and James Patterson’s house of robots series
Magic tree house!
Charlottes Web
Boxcar children
Little House on the Prarie
Boxcar children
Little House on the Prairie, Chronicles of Narnia, The Boxcar Children, American Girl
American girl, My America, Dear America
Box car children was a big one my mom would read my brother and I she started us young with chapter books though
The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
Great series and Chris Colfer is great
Absolutely! I can’t wait for the next book to come out in July
I just started listening to him read the audio book after watching him in Glee
You guys are the best! So many classics from my childhood. I need to re-read some of these.
Chronicles of Narnia, The Harry Potter series, the little house on the prairie, Peter Pan, Wizard of Oz series, Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales – I loved hearing all of those read to me while growing up 🙂
It’s only 3 but the mouse and the motorcycle books.
Any of the Roald Dahl books(i.e. James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc.). Those are the three I’m giving to my soon to be 8 year old niece.
Dr. Seuss was what I read at that age.
And start goosebumps I guess at the age of 10 or so.
Jason and the Draconauts by Paul Smith
Judy Blume books
Superfudge is great a great series for boys.
A to z mystery series
I loved Freckle Juice and anything else by Judy Blume, as well as The Mouse and the Motorcycle.
Thea Stilton and or her brother Geronimo Stilton it’s about some adolescent mice and mystery, Judy Moody and her brother Stink Moody each have their own series and also together !!
Arthur books
Clifford books is good for the 3 year old same for Dr. Suess and would recommend asking a librarian or even a book store.
Artimus Fowl for the 8 yo.
Henry Huggins 4 Book Collection – (about a boy named Henry and his Dog Ribsy ) I loved it growing up – also the Betsy Series – Carolyn Haywood B is for Betsy — those are listed on the good reads list I read all of those I was 8 —- just learning to read on my own —
The Berenstain Bears books for your 3 year old, Edward Eager (author) and Roald Dahl books for your 8 year old
My kids like the warrior books around 6-12 years old. It’s a book series told through animals eyes. They have warriors which is cats and seekers which I think is bears. But easy books like night time reads we loved things like
How do dinosaurs say goodnight
How do dinosaurs count to ten
If you give a cat a cupcake
If you give a mouse a cookie
Goodnight moon
Stuff like that we loved. And pinkalicious and purplicious if you have any girls. ?
Boxcar Children or the Little House next.
The Harry Potter series by J K Rowling
Alice in Wonderland, the Hobbit, Mouse on a mothercycle
Wow thank you all for the suggestions. I am going to jump right on getting some of these books. I want my children to love books as much as I do.
Try the children books from james patterson for your son for your daughter enid blyton
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Babysitters club
Anything by Roald Dahl or Jacqueline Wilson 🙂 both are me favourite childhood authors ^_^ still have the books now
http://www.magictreehouse.com/# my kids like these
Bible stories
For the Aerotron Nate the great
Nate the great
Dragons in the sock drawer
The Boxcar Children plus ask a Children’s librarian. She (or he) will know the latest & greatest.
Pippi Longstockings!
There you go!
The giving tree
The most beautiful book ever, but it’s not a series. I read that book to every room in my kids’ school. Some of the teachers cried. I get tears nearly every time I read it. So very special.
Mr poppers penguins (it’s great to read and then watch the movie)
I agree 100%! It’s fun to compare.
well say 10-14 boys John Flanigan (the Ranger’s Apprentice Series) Brandon Mull has a couple of series also that are good. My son and I loved these
Are The Hardy Boys too old?
There is an updated version of the Nancy Drew series. I know your son is in the “Yuk, girls!” stage, but maybe?
Edward Eager’s Half Magic series
Narnia is fun, but they might be a little young, Doctor Seuss, but they might be a little old for it,
The books of road Dahl
Books by Judy Blume thats what i read to my friend’s kids
Julia Donaldson for the younger one. Roald Darl might loose her without a little explaining, but would be great for the lad. They will BOTH enjoy and understand Julia Donaldson though; plus, your son could read it to your daughter. X
Mine (a boy and girl of similar age gap) loved Room on the Broom, Superworm, Stick Man, The Gruffalo, The Smartest Giant in Town, and lots more.
They are read to the children in school too. Other books for your son could include the Nairna books by C. S. Lewis; Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling; Percy Jackson books by Rick Rio ran; and the Magisterium books by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black. Although, these might also need a little explaining. I found that they switch off if you read directly from the book to them with no interpretation of some of the difficult language. My son is 13, now, and only just ready for understanding them properly. He is reading The Lorian Legacies series by Pittacus Lore, alone, at the moment, and loves them!
Excellent choice, Dee. Those books are the best!
Check James Patterson… read kiddo read …
… he always has great recommendations…
Little house on the Prairie, Junie B. Jones, Babysitters club, Boxcar children, Magic Treehouse books,and animal ark series. If you want shorter books you could read the Arthur books, Berestain bears, clifford, little critters, or curious george.