I have to confess.
I am not a HUGE fiction reader. I used to be.
These days, I find myself reading biographies, gardening books, parenting books, cookbooks and craft books.
The focus of my fiction reading has moved to my boys. We still read aloud to them in the evenings. And there are several kids' fiction books I would love to share with you.
So, let's talk kid's books.
My older boys are entering 3rd grade this year. I've got one who reads almost anything he can get his hands on. And one who resists with everything he has.
But here is what "we" are reading.
- Our first favorites were Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Treehouse Series. If the guinea pigs has been a boy and a girl they would have been named Jack and Annie we love this series so much...like so many other kids.
- We have also discovered Roald Dahl. Zane's teacher read The BFG to his class outloud and he was hooked. Since then we have read Dahl's The Magic Finger and The Minpins. September is Dahl month in the UK. If you are a fan too, download a month of Dahl inspired activities here.
- The Hardy Boys series
- The Elliot's Park series are great transition books from easy readers to chapter books...lots of pictures.
- Encyclopedia Brown and
- The R.A. Montgomery Choose Your Own Adventure books...especially for my reluctant reader. There are other CYOA books, but this is the series we have landed on.
- Abel's Island and the Tales of Despereaux (much different than the movie) were great evening read alouds.
Make sure you check the comments in the other Back-to-school Book Week posts. There are so many great book recommendations below the original post. Thanks to all of you who have been playing along.
And lastly, you still have until today at noon to enter to win the new Craft Hope book.
See you tomorrow for the Non-Fiction category. That is if we don't get blown out to sea by Hurricane Earl.