When Sam started kindergarten, I started searching for more "boy" books to add to our library. Flat Stanley, Magic Tree House, Ready Freddy, Encyclopedia Brown. Anyone else struggling to find good early reader boy books that your boys find interesting. Sadly none of these have really captured his interest. (He'd still rather read Junie B. Jones ... which is fine. She's hilarious!) So while he remains a strong reader, he doesn't have books he loves, driving him to read more and more ... that is until now:
Saturday night GR came home with two new books he was interested in reading ... one of them was "Diary of a Wimpy Kid." "Really?!", I said. "This book?!"
The second the kids saw it, it became the book they all wanted to read. Rebecca is already finished with the first book and ready to read the second. Emily is doing her best to get equal time so she too can read it. Sam continues to call out what page number he's on and how many he's read since the last time he announced it. It's totally and completely above his reading level, but he's plodding his way through the book, and while it isn't real literature (to me), it is funny. Even Alexander has taken to laying on the couch with the book, "reading" it.
Last night I purchased the next three books in the series. (desperate sucker!)
Monday night we took the four big kids to the movies. There had been a request to see "How to Train Your Dragon" in 3-D at the IMAX. After choking that the IMAX ticket prices ($11/each) don't ever change (typically a movie during the week is about half the price of weekend ticket prices), we took the plunge and purchased six tickets. The movie is fantastic and well worth the small fortune we spent to see it. Hands down one of the best movies GR and I have seen and the kids loved every second of it! Even little Alexander stayed glued to his seat (minus the quick potty break mid way through).
Turns out, the movie is based on a book, by Cressida Cowell, and there is a whole series! Yep, we'll be adding these to our boy library too! As soon as the school book order arrives, we'll have the first four books in the Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian series. These are more for Sam in a year or two, but it's a start.
Any recommendations on 100 page chapter books for boys?
4 comments:
I'm glad that is working out. In these here parts, English is usually a second language, so all their peers are WAAAAAY behind in language level. It is really hard to get age appropriate books, so I appreciate your reviews of these titles.
i bought that book as a donation to an oakland schools reading project. actually, the woman at borders picked it out for me because i had no idea what kids are reading these days. it must be pretty popular.
parker is really enjoying the "nate the great" series. and, of course, he loves junie b. she IS hilarious.
glad to hear about the additional dragon books - we loved the movie as well and had read the book, but didn't know there were others! awesome!
Hey Cutie lady! Another series that Sam would eventually like is called "The Underland Chronicles" by Suzanne Collins. It a good boy series, although as a lover of fantasy i really enjoyed them myself!
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