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Chapter Books!
I think I have been waiting for this day with greater anticipation than I realized. Yesterday the Dragon brought me Alan's Peter Pan book from childhood and asked me to read it to him. Not only a chapter book, but a fairy tale chapter book! Yaaaaayyyy!
Yesterday we read two chapters, today another three. I just now returned from the grocery store to hear the babysitter reading more of it to him downstairs. (Never mind my irritation at him for going ahead with it without me. I'll catch up.)
I can't believe how thrilled I am. Maybe because the story is interesting to me, too. I can sink my teeth into it the way I can't into freaking Thomas the Tank Engine or Goodnight Moon or any of those other godforsaken books. Suddenly the summer seems so much more exciting.
What are you excited about right now? And/or -- though I'm sure we've done a thread like this before -- what are your favorite early chapter books?
Yesterday we read two chapters, today another three. I just now returned from the grocery store to hear the babysitter reading more of it to him downstairs. (Never mind my irritation at him for going ahead with it without me. I'll catch up.)
I can't believe how thrilled I am. Maybe because the story is interesting to me, too. I can sink my teeth into it the way I can't into freaking Thomas the Tank Engine or Goodnight Moon or any of those other godforsaken books. Suddenly the summer seems so much more exciting.
What are you excited about right now? And/or -- though I'm sure we've done a thread like this before -- what are your favorite early chapter books?
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Permalink Reply by Andromeda on -
D loves the Goosebumps books. he got one in a kids meal from Popeye's Chicken one time and he's been hooked ever since. (and although the chicken sucked, i was sure happy to see a book in a kid's meal instead of a crappy piece of plastic!)
I can't wait to start reading the Harry Potter Books to D. I might wait until he is a little older though. maybe in a couple of years when he's about 7.
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Permalink Reply by MamatothaMax on -
We've been reading books aloud on car trips. Recent ones have been Riordan's Percy Jackson series and Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book.
Mojo and Max love Captain Underpants. It's super silly (ie a bad guy named Professor P P Poopypants) and got the boys all wound up so I recommend not reading it before bed. :)
Also rock on that you've got a sitter who will read to The Dragon.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Mama on -
Since the Potter books get pretty dark pretty fast we made it a rule that you couldn't watch the movie if you hadn't read the book.
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Permalink Reply by StitchyWench on -
We loved the Diary Of A Whimpy Kid books. My daughter loved the H P books. She's old enough we went to the midnight book release for the last book, but my son has no interest.
The Tale of Desperaux was good and the Miraculous Adventures of Edward Tulaine was fantastic!
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Permalink Reply by Gumbo Momma on -
Not really chapter books, but the Girl also really likes Amelia Bedilia. I loved her stories when I was little too. She's really good for younger kids like 2-4.
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Permalink Reply by jenra on -
I love The Tale of Desperaux, The Boxcar Children, and the Ramona series. I got annoyed with the Maagic Treehouse series because as previously mentioned I found it formulaic. Junie B. Jones was cute, but drove me crazy to read because of the poor spelling and over the top grammatical errors.
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Permalink Reply by Daddy Geek Boy on
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We actually just hit the same milestone. Started with a Junie B book. Reading Charlie and the Chocolate factory right now. I've actually never read it, but my wife tells me its way less creepy than the movie.
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