Hello everyone, we have the internet again. Yay!!
so anyway Holly's last blog made me want some book recommendations.
I have a hard time picking books to read to my boys, I mean the chapter kind we read a chapter from every night. If i ask librarians they can imagine what one would read from that section to a 4 and 5 year old. I guess parents don't read to their kids much these days... I don't know.
We also read lots of picture books too, but I enjoy having a book and reading a chapter everyday.
So far
This last year we've read: (well I've read to them)
Charlie and the chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
The Minpins
Wolf Story (may have been year before)
James and the Giant Peach(may have been the year before too)
My Fathers Dragon series (we should read again, ..was last year)
Charlottes Web
The Wizard of Oz
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Magicians Nephew
half of the BFG, but they didn't like it so we stopped that one
I'm not super at picking so sometimes we try one out and it doesn't work so i find another.
I believe there are more and I can't remember...
Right now we're reading A Cricket in Times Square
and Andrew's been prodding me to read him Sherlock Holmes....which i think is too old for him but he insists I read it to him. I wonder if he's getting it? I've been kinda avoiding that one and just pulling out the cricket one. He was also insisting I read him, The Time Machine by H.G Wells.....That didn't last long.
He's obsessed with all things scientific and Chemistry oriented. He believes H.G. Wells is a great scientific author, which he may be, i don't know anything about him.
He wants to be a scientist and spends time everyday with his beakers and test tubes in the bathroom (his Laboratory, he says) experimenting with (his chemicals, he says) food coloring.
He Loves the Franny K. Stein book series, which i highy reccommend for young children who read above expectations. He begs to read to me when we've had one from the library. Trouble is he's about read them all. The nice thing about them is well, not only are they about a little girl mad scientist, but they also have a picture on every page.
He's been reading Geronimo Stilton latley but seems to be getting board with those.
So if anyone has reccomendations in either of these groups...... I'd love to hear about them!
4 comments:
sorry no recs. here, but it sounds like a good list- I say just keep going and see what they like. If I run across one I'll let you know! Hope to hear from you here more often!!
That Andrew is amazing. I'll look at my collection and give some thoughts. You are doing great things.
Shel Silverstein books. Kids love em!
i dunno jen- i dont know kids like your boys, but i dont know any kids of that age and what they should read. reading your list, though, makes me think of the phantom toll booth and a whisper in time. the only thing is though, i loved the BFG and your boys didnt, so maybe they wouldnt like what i recommend or maybe they are too young. did you ask taylor?
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