Great holiday books for kids
Well, it's five o'clock and all is dark in the midwest.
I didn't manage to photograph the thing I was going to post about today before the sun fell behind the trees, so instead, please enjoy these book recommendations from my resident experts.
The boys have just turned 8 and 11 in the past few weeks. If you have any middle-size kids to buy for this holiday season, even (or especially) those who hate to read, maybe these books will be just the ticket.
Of course the boys enjoy the Harry Potter
D loved Black Horses for the King
Another classic series the boys both enjoyed was A Wrinkle in Time
They loved the Narnia series
J (now 8) has just finished reading The Lightning Thief
Speaking of which, D really liked Eragon
Another favorite fantasy series was The Great Tree of Avalon
Your middle-size kid not a fantasy lover? You can't go wrong with the Wayside School boxed set
(Their favorite Roald Dahl
Our favorite poetry book (though it's hard to choose) is The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury
Classics? They both love The Phantom Tollbooth
Finally, D’s favorite read this past year, real-life adventure Kon-Tiki
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“There are only a handful of books that I can honestly say have changed my life. This … is one of those books.”
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11 comments
Lori:
Good stuff, once again. I hope you have an Amazon link/widget for the referal % here. You might check that out.
These are excellent suggestions for my nephews in Vermont. I'm doing a very brief Christmas themed book post (probably tomorrow, now) for the younger set and wondered if I might borrow your Visit from father christmas photo, as my camera is temporarily OOO. (With credit/reference to you, of course).
Molly (I)
I learned over the weekend that's a popular name around here :)
Have they read the Prydain Chronicles?
of course, molly, use the photo! sorry it's not better. ;^)
yes, i do have an amazon associates number, and after blogging (for school) for many years, i think i've earned a total of $1.85. oh well! :^)
i tell people most of my blog readers are named molly... lol
hi courtney .. no! i'm totally unfamiliar with those. what is the first in the series? i'd love to get dominic something new for christmas. :^)
looked it up on wikipedia .. and ordered the first two books from amazon.
i think i've ordered 95% of my christmas gifts from amazon this year.
My children loved Peter and the Star Catchers by Dave Berry. He has three books in this series. It tells how Peter Pan became Peter Pan. My middle schoolers (age 13 and 14) read it and could not put it down.
hi linda, thank you for the recommendations!
OUr son is 8- great list of books. We arent so much into Harry Potter, but love the Magic Treehouse series and Redwell books!
thank you, kelly .. we have several of the magic treehouse books, too. we tried reading redwall aloud but the boys couldn't get into it. (i liked it!) another series both boys were very into was encyclopedia brown .. something i remembered reading when i was a kid!
i'm reading Kon-Tiki right now....just started two nights ago!
(you know, I changed my name to molly just so I could start commenting on your blog...what? that's not a prereq?!)
rofl molly -- when i refer to my blog readers, i call them mollies, dintcha know?
i was looking at heyerdahl's book about "the steps of adam" or something similar .. looked pretty good, and we're going to check it out through interlibrary loan!
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