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Our 7-yr old just started reading Harry Potter (with Mom), and so far, he's enjoying the magical world of wizards and muggles! His past favorites have been Captain Underpants, Elephant and Piggie, and Garfield (the cat). Personally, I'm not a fan of Captain Underpants or any books that misspell words deliberately. Maybe they are aimed at an older age group that already know the correct spellings but my son read them at 6 and very often he would get distracted by the incorrect spellings.
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My just-turned 6-year old loves Encyclopedia Brown. We've actually been checking out the AudioCDs from the library. We all love trying to solve the mysteries. He likes when I read them to him, too.
Along with A to Z mysteries, he also likes another series by Rob Roy called Capital Mystery Series (or something like that) - they are mysteries that are around Washington, DC.
our youngest started reading around 3. What got him into reading? Pokemon. He wanted the play the game on the little handheld thingy and not have to have a sibling read it all to him. (It is all reading with some super basic pictures). So he taught himself to read. Not really sure how he did it, but he played that game for hundreds of hours and it was all reading. he continued 'reading" the pokemon game well into school years.
Get them the old pokemon games and they will read read read.
My son liked Captain Underpants, Dear America (Historical Fiction), and Teacher from the Black Lagoon Series. He also liked the nature series, Amazing Bats, Amazing Sharks, etc. Anything about natural disasters was also very popular with him.
I am a K-2 teacher. Many of these books are good recommendations, if a bit hard for the average 6 year old. Remember that children may be able to read all the words in a book and still not understand it. I can read a medical book, but i would understand about a quarter of it.
The Harry Potter book should be read with supervision, as it is meant for older kids.
I recommend these books that I see boys go crazy for: Skippy Jon Jones, the Jan Brett books, any kids human body book, magic tree house, and nonfiction books on sharks or dinosaurs.
Tickle his sense of humor with books of cracked fairy tales
Honestly, Red Riding Hood was Rotten
Seriously, Cinderella is So Annoying
Trust Me, Jack's Beanstalk Stinks
Jon Scieszka books
Squids will be Squids
Baloney
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
The Stinky Cheese Man
The Frog Prince Continued
The Book that Jack Wrote
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