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For those with kids: Best novels to read with 1st/2nd grader
Posted on 3/30/23 at 8:22 am
Posted on 3/30/23 at 8:22 am
I'd like to start reading some of the classics with my 7 year old at night, but I'm having a difficult time coming up with something that is age appropriate. I loved adventure books as a kid (Where the Red Fern Grows, Hatchet, The River, etc.), but I'm not sure if I should hold off for another year or two before getting into those. Anyone have any recommendations for novels to read with a 7 year old?
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Posted on 3/30/23 at 8:29 am to UpToPar
Depending on the kid, you may be getting close to an age where the Hobbit is an option.
Posted on 3/30/23 at 9:20 am to UpToPar
Charlotte's Web
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (the series gets darker)
The Sorcerer's Stone/Harry Potter (the series def gets darker)
The Magic Treehouse series
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (the series gets darker)
The Sorcerer's Stone/Harry Potter (the series def gets darker)
The Magic Treehouse series
Posted on 3/30/23 at 9:38 am to UpToPar
Where The Red Fern Grows
Posted on 3/30/23 at 9:50 am to UpToPar
Redwall series by Brian Jacques
Posted on 3/30/23 at 11:45 am to UpToPar
I read Kipling's "The Jungle Book" to my two older kids. They still remember that and they are in their late 30s.
Posted on 3/30/23 at 1:15 pm to UpToPar
Roald Dahl books are pretty much all great. My Side of the Mountain is another one my daughter loved at that age.
This post was edited on 3/30/23 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 3/30/23 at 6:43 pm to UpToPar
Adventure? My choice for that age would be the Chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander. The Disney movie The Black Cauldron may have bombed, but the books are amazing.
Posted on 3/30/23 at 6:50 pm to GOP_Tiger
A real classic would be The Princess and the Goblin by George Macdonald. It was written in 1872, but my daughter loved it when she was about that age.
Posted on 3/31/23 at 9:22 am to Alyosha
I second the
Lloyd Alexander Black cauldron Prydain chronicles,
the Hobbit,
where the red fern Grows,
my side of the mountain, and add
half Magic,
old yeller,
Rascal, and
the Great Brain books
Lloyd Alexander Black cauldron Prydain chronicles,
the Hobbit,
where the red fern Grows,
my side of the mountain, and add
half Magic,
old yeller,
Rascal, and
the Great Brain books
This post was edited on 3/31/23 at 9:23 am
Posted on 4/1/23 at 5:05 am to UpToPar
As others have mentioned, we did Magic Treehouse, and then Harry Potter - gradually. Saved third book until 9, I think. Also liked Johnnny Tremaine, some King Arthur, read anything we could find to him. Did two Redwall books at about 9 as well.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Posted on 4/1/23 at 9:56 am to UpToPar
Many great ones have already been listed. I'll add Roverrandom by JRR Tolkien
Posted on 4/1/23 at 11:39 am to pilsnerpusher
When my first kid was about that age I got on to eBay and some of the other used book sites and bought every book and series my siblings and I read growing up, along with anything else I could find that looked appealing like compilations of old sci-fi short stories and the Sherlock Holmes short stories. I just stuck them all on the Shelf, alongside a few Garfield and far sides. They'll find them
Posted on 4/2/23 at 1:52 am to UpToPar
Lots of great advice in here.
Huck Finn
Tom Sawyer
Shel silverstein
Dr seuss
Charlottes Webb
Percy Jackson series
Huck Finn
Tom Sawyer
Shel silverstein
Dr seuss
Charlottes Webb
Percy Jackson series
Posted on 4/4/23 at 10:46 am to lsugorilla
I’ll add the Little House series to suggestions above.
Posted on 4/4/23 at 11:51 am to MissTiger91
quote:
Charlotte's Web
My daughter loved this
Posted on 4/4/23 at 5:38 pm to UpToPar
One thing that I've done in the past year or so has been really helpful, and I call it side-by-side reading. We used to read to my son, and he has read quite a bit, but is not a reader. He moves too much. When he has to read something for school, or I want to read something with him (he's 11 now), I purchase two copies of the book and we alternate reading aloud to one another. That way I can correct vocabulary much more easily than having him spell it out.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Posted on 4/4/23 at 5:43 pm to UpToPar
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Posted on 4/4/23 at 9:13 pm to sertorius
quote:
When he has to read something for school, or I want to read something with him (he's 11 now), I purchase two copies of the book and we alternate reading aloud to one another. That way I can correct vocabulary much more easily than having him spell it out.
This is what my daughter and I did, except that we just shared a book. She would read a paragraph, and then I'd read the next paragraph. It's just a more fun way to read. We did this every night until she left for college. We'd read one chapter of the Bible, and then we'd read a chapter of a novel or something else.
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