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Read alouds for kids - 7/28/2009 1:05:48 AM
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PrincessDonna
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I need suggestions for books to read aloud to my kids (9, 8, 4, and 2 when he will sit still).
I'm looking for chapter books, and they must be either funny, full of action, or both.
Ones we have read and liked...
The Boxcar Children
Spoonboy
One we started reading and did NOT like...
Trouble in a Fur Coat by Janette Oke Boooooo-ring!
On my list so far...I remember liking these as a kid.
Sign of the Beaver
My Side of the Mountain
Also, I have a hard time finding books in the library that aren't way scary (RL Stine, anyone?!) or full of wizards and witches. None of those, please. Thanks!
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RE: Read alouds for kids - 7/28/2009 1:39:50 AM
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Mrs.Wifey
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Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Pippi Longstockings
The Mouse and the Motorcyle
Stuart Little
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Swiss Family Robinson
A Little Princess
Little Women
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Little Prince
Adventures of Robin Hood
Harriet the Spy
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlotte's Web
The Hardy Boys(maybe? they are clean but not sure how much Hannah would understand)
Carl Hiaasen has some kids books out too and they are pretty funny. I think your boys would enjoy them :) I haven't read them with "mommy eyes" though so you might want to preview them.
Oooooh! Duh! The Little House on the Praire set :) Of course, you do have boys but my brother's found them moderately entertaining and Hannah would probably like them.
Hmmm... I'm trying to think what else my family read when we were that age...
I think that I also read(and Micah thinks he did too) the Chronicles of Narnia and the Hobbit, but we were both very advanced readers.
< Message edited by Mrs.Wifey -- 7/28/2009 1:46:16 AM >
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RE: Read alouds for kids - 7/28/2009 1:52:40 AM
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TheTheory
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
in fact, most Beverly Cleary books make great read-alouds, like the Ramona Quimby series (which I think starts with Ramona the Pest).
Shiloah by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Never a personal favorite of mine, but my sisters loved it and the sequels.
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Charlotte's Webb by EB White
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Kind of an Alice in Wonderland, except with more of an educational bent
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
I really could go on and on. So many memories of my mom reading aloud to me. Don't think that young age means that older books can't be used, too. I loved it when she read out loud from the All Things Bright And Beautiful series by James Herriot and The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingles Wilder. Even things like Anne of Green Gables were fair game in our family. If I was at my parents house I could go through their collection and probably find a thousand more fantastic titles.
**edit**
The duplicates on this list from the one above me are due to the fact that we were writing our lists at the same time.. I'm not going to go back and delete things now.
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RE: Read alouds for kids - 7/28/2009 5:41:49 AM
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keithyhuntington
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boxcar children is good....
also 'An Inconvenient Book' by Glenn Beck. fun for kids of ALL ages =) (hey... if i had kids i'd read em glenn beck!)
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RE: Read alouds for kids - 7/28/2009 11:14:43 AM
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Mark Twain (Huck Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi)
Louis L'Amour (any of his Westerns, plus Last of the Breed)
Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island)
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RE: Read alouds for kids - 7/28/2009 3:52:47 PM
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uncabeeil
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Well, no wizards leaves out The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, and the Narnia series. I got nothin' else.
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RE: Read alouds for kids - 7/28/2009 6:40:52 PM
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Get Honey for a Child's Heart for a roadmap through the reading years, with loads of wholesome books for every age.
My girls are 11 and 13. Tonight, we are reading Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Long Roll (Mary Johnston), Witness (Whitaker Chambers) and The Tartar's Sword (about the Ukrainian Sich)
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RE: Read alouds for kids - 7/29/2009 10:40:02 AM
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TXRedhead
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The Hank the Cowdog series is tons of fun. And the CDs are great, too. We put those on the kids MP3 players to listen to at night when they go to bed.
My son likes the A to Z mystery series, and my daughter likes The Littles series.
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RE: Read alouds for kids - 7/29/2009 8:11:19 PM
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TheTheory
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great call on Rascal, Auben. Definitely an iconic book for my younger years.
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RE: Read alouds for kids - 7/30/2009 3:36:01 PM
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I'm a children's librarian, so I see what kids choose for themselves.
For the two and four year old you couldn't go wrong with Go Away Big Green Monster, the absolute most popular book among the preschool set. They also like Peek-a-Moo, Peek-a-Zoo, and Peek-a-Pet. Also try the David books by David Shannon, David Goes to School, No David, David Gets In Trouble. Everybody likes them. When I read them at a daycare the teachers get a big kick out of David Goes to School because they see themselves in all the things the teacher says to David.
I think somebody said your older kids are boys. Boys that age generally ask for Captain Underpants, Goosebumps, Lemony Snicket, Weird School series, Flat Stanley, Hank Zipper, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Holes, Maniac MaGee, Belle Prater's Boy, Matt Christopher sports novels, Bruce Coville' humorous books such as My Teacher Flunked the Planet. Another one that I have not read, but which seems to be hot now is Al Capone Does My Shirts.
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RE: Read alouds for kids - 7/30/2009 4:28:07 PM
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uncabeeil
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Just thought of a couple of good pirate tales, "Isle of Fire" and "Isle of Swords" by Wayne Batson. Really good stories.
Also, Brian Jacques' "Redwall" series, which feature mice and other small woodland creatures having all kinds of adventures. They're marketed as children's books, but I love them.
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RE: Read alouds for kids - 8/1/2009 9:23:01 AM
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You've had some great suggestions here! I think most of what I would've listed has been listed already! One that I don't think has been mentioned is "The Book of Virtues" by William Bennett. It is not a chapter book, but a compilation of stories, poems and selections from books all based around certain virtues! We really enjoyed this (even though it is a rather BIG book)! We often used it to "fill in" when we were between series. Since it isn't a continuing story, we could read it & then pick it up later. It also gave us some good ideas for books we'd like to read!
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