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.
Willow: That's a work ethic! Buffy, you're developing a work ethic! Buffy: Do they make an ointment for that?
'Beneath You'
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."
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."
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.
flea - May 31, 2013 3:26:39 pm PDT #20874 of 28370
information libertarian
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.
le nubian - May 31, 2013 3:47:33 pm PDT #20875 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Twain: celebrated frog would probably work.
Jessica - May 31, 2013 6:53:37 pm PDT #20876 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Twain: celebrated frog
Oh, that's a good one!
Connie Neil - May 31, 2013 7:45:04 pm PDT #20877 of 28370
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Eleanor Estes! The Moffats!
And Elizabeth Enright! Gone-Away Lake, Return to Gone-Away, the Melendy stories: The Saturdays, Four Story Mistake, etc.
Enright might be a tad old for a 3rd grade reader, though.