Authorized sequels to work by deceased authors: the level of lurid crazy by the ghostwriters for V.C. Andrews' estate has really dropped, and I am unreasonably annoyed by that.

I had looked at some of the Sarah Monette books, since I love The Goblin Emperor so much, but they did sound different ... may not try them out. But the names were hard to keep up with - most of them, I couldn't even figure out how they should be pronounced.

I LOVE T. Kingfisher! I want more Clocktaur

And I want more about the gnoles.

And I haven't reread the Queens Thief series in a long time. Maybe I should do that...

I had a hard time getting into the Goblin Emperor. Currently finishing the Thursday Next series, which I started forever ago and then kind of forgot about for awhile. Such silly book-nerd fun.

My son has officially reached the "devouring tiny chapter books like they are going out of style" phase of his life. From our school library and on his Kindle (thanks libraries!), he has read every Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, every Big Nate book, many many books from the Cam Jansen and Magic Treehouse series, a fair bit of Junie B. Jones, Sideways Stories from Wayside School and so forth.

Any suggestions for comparable books and series that we might have missed that are definitely good? Things available in eBook form are awesome because of the ease of e-library+kindle (e.g. the Bailey School Kids are NOT available in ebook), but anything I can check for in our pretty well-stocked school library would be great too.

I've already tried to get him to read Wild Magic because I love me some Tamora Pierce, but fantasy in general doesn't seem to make him quite as happy as other things. He didn't love the Secret of Droon series either.

Gris, how old is he?

(My 8 year-old hasn't read anything without a dragon on the cover in what feels like forever, and my 11 year-old is reading exclusively horror these days, so I may not be much help...)

Has he ready any Beverly Cleary or the Superfudge books by Judy Blume?

Gris, how old is he?

Not Gris, but I know his oldest is 7 -- just a few months older than Rose.

The My Weird School series (by Dan Gutman) is really popular with this age group at my library. Jon Scieszka's books are great: you might try the Time Warp Trio series or the Frank Einstein series. Mac Barnett has some good series too, like Mac B., Kid Spy and The Terrible Two. Oh, and there's always Captain Underpants, of course!

Others you might try: Timmy Failure books by Stefan Pastis; Origami Yoda books by Tom Angleberger; Yasmin series by Saadia Faruqi (possibly a little on the young side); Big Foot and Little Foot series by Ellen Potter; Gumazing Gum Girl series by Rhode Montijo; Princess in Black series by Shannon Hale.

Rose has really been enjoying the Puppy Place series by Ellen Miles, the Ivy and Bean books by Annie Barrows, the Jenny and the Cat Club books by Esther Averill, and the Calpurnia Tate: Girl Vet series by Jacqueline Kelly. My mom just gave her Ra the Mighty: Cat Detective (by A.B. Greenfield) for Christmas, and though she hasn't gotten to it yet, it looks good and possibly something C might like. Other recent favorites: Dory Fantasmagory series by Abby Hanlon; According to Humphrey series by Betty Birney; Catstronauts series by Drew Brockington (graphic novels).

More mysteries: Encyclopedia Brown, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Boxcar Children: all those old ones are still good fun. Newer books: the Zach and Zoe Mysteries by Mike Lupica; Hilde Cracks the Case series by Hilde Lysiak.

Glad to hear that C is turning into such a big reader!

Has he ready any Beverly Cleary or the Superfudge books by Judy Blume?

Oh yeah, Emmett loved Superfudge about the time he was reading the Wimpy Kid books.

And I read all the Beverly Clearly at that age.

Don't forget the Great Brain series, nor Half Magic. Oldies but goodies.

Oh, Boxcar Children and Great Brain and Half Magic!! All such favorites once upon a time...