Finished up reading the Harry Potter books to the kid tonight. It's been a long haul and has taken a few years, we only do a chapter a night on a good night. In that time he started reading them on his own and has made it to book 6. It's a bit bittersweet, but ready to start on a new bedtime adventure. #kidstr #bookstr #harrypotter
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We’re on our second lap through right now. Midway through book four. When I asked them to give narnia a try I made it about 7 chapters before they were asking me to go back to Harry Potter 😂
😂 to be fair, I think I made it to book 5 when he was a baby and gave up because that's my least favorite book. We read all the Percy Jackson books, both series, and then restarted HP. I don't know what's next, maybe we'll try the Narnia books. I'm going to read at bedtime as long as he'll let me.
There are so many great young adult novels. Highly recommend the Pendragon series.
💜 thanks for the recommendation. He's almost 11, is it age appropriate for him? He seems to be enjoying the fantasy stuff, we read all the Percy Jackson books.
Piercy Jackson is good too!
But yea I think Pendragon is age appropriate. It says 10+ https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/pendragon-series
There's also Chronicles of Narnia, A Wrinkle in Time (but the main character is a girl, so idk if he would relate, don't bother watching the movie).
I enjoyed His Dark Materials, first book Golden Compass at that age, but this website says 12+ so this is something you can read down the line https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/the-golden-compass-his-dark-materials-book-1
Oh and a Series of Unfortunate Events! I also appreciated the Netflix TV adaptation. It was fun.
We'll have to check all these out!
I just went down memory lane 😂
Here's some more if you need any more suggestions 😆 haha sorry if it is too much! 😅
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113436.Eragon
Lol, never too many! If we're not reading at bedtime, he needs some good stories to read.
We watched the Inkheart movie, I can see that it would be a good read.
I love the Inheritance series!!! 🥰
They were so good! 😊 I might have them floating around somewhere
I definitely have them in my bookshelf. Plus at least one of the spinoffs! 🐉
When LOTR?
I was thinking about those!
My little boy loves LOTR, but it's too advanced for him. He listens (and understands perfectly well) to his Hobbit audiobook and loves it.
Hubs says this might be the case with ours, but I think he may be just right for it, lol.
Did the kid enjoy the massive amount of torture, dictatorship, horrifying shit of all sorts, dark magic, murder and moral corruption of everyone including the protagonist?
(I like Harry Potter, to be clear. I haven't read the books because I am illiterate, though).
I used to read a chapter to my granddaughter of a juvenile edition of Wonderland Alice. We would laugh together. Books are amazing to spark and feed imagination.