I need book recommendations for a 6 year-old (in two weeks!) who reads at a 3rd grade level.
The Magic Trixie comics by Jill Thompson? Bone?
Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!
River ,'War Stories'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Atropa - May 31, 2013 9:46:29 am PDT #20864 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
DavidS - May 31, 2013 9:51:46 am PDT #20865 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes!
Encyclopedia Brown?
Alfred Hitchcok and the 3 Investigators?
I think when I was reading at a 3rd grade level (in 3rd grade) I was reading All The Animal Stories. So lots of Jim Kjellgaard (Big Red, etc.) and Island of the Blue Dolphins and Black Stallion etc.
DebetEsse - May 31, 2013 10:18:40 am PDT #20866 of 28370
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Most definitely Bone. And the single-volume collection makes you feel like a badass when you finish the whole thing. There is some fantasy war imagery, though, so look through it, first.
Encyclopedia Brown? Maybe look at some nonfiction zoology or history books? I went on a massive animals kick and had a whole set of books on different animals.
Jessica - May 31, 2013 10:27:07 am PDT #20867 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Bone gets pretty dark towards the end, but I think he'd get a kick out of the first two. (And he'll finally understand what DH and I mean when we say "I can't argue with that, but I feel like I should.")
The main problem with Calvin & Hobbes is the complete collection books are too heavy for him to lift.
DavidS - May 31, 2013 10:28:14 am PDT #20868 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The main problem with Calvin & Hobbes is the complete collection books are too heavy for him to lift.
I started Emmett with the original small trade paper collections, which should be very easy to find at used bookstores.
Jessica - May 31, 2013 10:29:40 am PDT #20869 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My brother's old copies are probably still at my parents' house.
Atropa - May 31, 2013 10:39:34 am PDT #20870 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
original small trade paper collections, which should be very easy to find at used bookstores.
Those are what Princess Tickybox has been carting around with her.
hippocampus - May 31, 2013 10:48:05 am PDT #20871 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
Astronaut Academy
Indian in the Cupboard
Anything by E.B. White
Fudge
Mysterious Benedict Society
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
The Phantom Tollbooth
Hugo Cabret
meara - May 31, 2013 10:50:58 am PDT #20872 of 28370
Key to the Treasure by Peggy Parish, and other books in that series by her...that was my crack when I was 5 and reading at that level.
megan walker - May 31, 2013 10:52:46 am PDT #20873 of 28370
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I feel like that's the age when my nephew starting really getting into Tintin.
Or, that may be my seemingly interminable Spielberg project talking.
But I think he read those before Harry Potter, which he was definitely reading by 6 or 7.