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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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
My brother's old copies are probably still at my parents' house.
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.
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
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.
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.
I am really big into classic, especially first half of 20th century, fiction for very young readers with advanced reading levels. Anything written '40s and before has a really high lexile (i.e. complex vocabulary) but generally 6 year old friendly plots. (You do need to do some previewing for racism - Peter Pan is a no, for example.) I suggest Eleanor Estes, The Hobbit, Swallows and Amazons and sequels, Farmer Boy, Mr. Popper's Penguins, The Twenty-One Balloons, and for modern Natalie Babbitt (The Search for Delicious), the Penderwicks series. All of these we've read aloud, starting when Dillo's attention span got long enough at early 5.