Hello all!
I'm looking for book recommendations to read with my son 7 and daughter 5. I'd like early chapter books, between around Dragon Masters at the easier side and Emily Windsnap (no picture, chapter book version) at the advanced side.
I would love to find some generally lighthearted books, that do not have really deep struggles. And books that hopefully have a male main character, or not-only/ not-mainly girls.
We've read some I Survived books although we like those, I want to balance it out with something more lighthearted at bedtime before sleeping.
Also, we just started the Emily Windsnap books. We've read a few of the picture-chapter books together and my daughter loved those. My kids seem to like the more detailed no-picture chapter books so far. And I'd love something with a similar feel that is not so targeted to girls that my son can relate to more as well.
I love fantasy. And my son liked Dragon Masters. He also loves nonfiction and historical fiction so those are good genres too!
Thank you so much for all your help!
by K_Tiptoes
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Magic Treehouse? I can’t remember if they are illustrated or not but it’s a series about a brother-sister pair who can time travel with their treehouse.
They may be old school, but Gordon Korman’s books I Want to Go Home and No Coins Please still crack me up. My husband loved the Soup books (historical fiction) and Encyclopedia Brown as a kid, and I was partial to The Great Brain. The best part about reading books from the 70s-90s Apple series are they are cheap!
The movie series How to Train Your Dragon is actually based on a book series by Cressida Cowell. The books have a completely different plot than the movies but are still fantastic. I read them when I was 7 or 8. They are definitely a lot denser than dragon masters but very fun