As today marks World Book Day, I thought I’d have a series of posts across the day to showcase my children’s favourite books.
Reading is a BIG deal here. Anyone who knows me will know that my house is often drowning under books! We have books everywhere, and I am keen to add a bookcase to our dining room…. just requires a bit of a think as to how we re-jig things in our front room once we have decorated and whether we move the current bookcase or not. Either way it will very soon be filled with books for the children and I.
The second of my posts today is to share the books that my seven-year-old son loves. Reading is his number one thing to do, and it’s not an exaggeration to say that he is always surrounded by books. There are books littered around the house that he is reading at any given time. His morning starts on the sofa, under a blanket reading away. Here today I am sharing his current favourite series of books.
You can read here about the books my six-year-old loves.
How to Train Your Dragon
How to train your Dragon has been a huge hit here for Daniel in recent months. I picked up one of these books on a whim from a charity shop and he has been hooked ever since. We don’t have all this series yet, but he has been reading each book, repeatedly and has even convinced me to read them too! He has completed his own How to Train Your Dragon Card Game and has been writing his own book of dragonese.
The books are fantastically fun and have sparked an interest in Vikings for him too. Thoroughly enjoyable books that I see being a big part of our bookish lives for the foreseeable future as Em is also beginning to show some interest in these now.
Tom Gates
The Tom Gates series of books have been an unexpected hit here. Daniel picked one up in the library once as we were getting ready to check out our books and has been hooked ever since. Another series that he is slowly collecting and books that are always being read and re-read. These are a great series of books for reluctant readers as they’re set out more like a comic strip style story and have lots of humour in them. They’re great fun and Daniel just loves them.
Horrible Histories
I have a bit of an internal tussle with the Horrible Histories books and I suspect it’s my own snobbery that is the culprit. I’d never really nudged Daniel towards these and I can’t really recall when and how we got his first one. However, they’ve ignited a huge passion for history and the amount of stuff hs recalls from them is astounding. There are some areas of history that he hasn’t shown interest in, until he started on these books and he really loves them. They’re great for reluctant readers as they’re funny with a little bit of toilet humour thrown in here and there (which of course makes kids laugh away)
Daniel reads such a wonderfully wide and diverse range of books, but these three series that I’ve shared today are the ones that he comes back to again and again. He of course, loves Roald Dahl as well as all manner of other books, including returning to much loved picture books.
