You Pinspire Me
Short and sweet post today! Our boys are good readers, but don’t LOVE it like I did when I was younger. They don’t tend to sit with a book and read on their own, so I wanted to encourage as much of that as possible this summer. To help with that, we stopped off at the library this morning and got a bunch of books, then we ran to the second hand store and let them choose 2 books for them to keep.
Here are some of the books/series that do hold our boys’ interest (ranging from ages 5-10).
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney
Big Nate series by Lincoln Peirce
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Geronimo Stilton series by Geronimo Stilton
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The Action Bible by Sergio Cariello – our oldest LOVES this, and we love watching him enjoy it.
Zac Power series by H. I. Larry
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Anything Lego or Superheroes
What are your kids reading this summer? Any other good books we should know about?
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From what your boys are reading, they would get along great with mine! Lots of Lego and Star Wars books have been coming home from the library.
Does your library have a summer reading program? Ours is part of the TD Summer Reading Club. You get a sticker book to keep track of books you’ve read and there’s a draw for some fun prizes. The incentives keep them wanting to go to the library every week.
I should check that program out. I saw it, but didn’t bother to look into it!
The only one I’ve heard of so far is Diary of the Wimpy Kid. I’m so out of the loop, but I do know that series is fantastic.
Our kids have been doing the summer reading program at the library for years and it is great! Very encouraging to all readers. Our fills up fast so hopefully you can still get in!
Check out the graphic novel section at your library, too. There are some really good ones for kids in there – our kids really liked “Adventure Time.” Once we took out all 6 Adventure Times that our library had and the kids spent the entire (long) drive reading and switching books – even our not-yet-a-reader enjoys them. “El Deafo” is another really awesome graphic novel that all our kids read several times each (ages 5-12).
I’ll have to check those out – they sound great!!
These are great books. My son didn’t like to read when he was that age, but when he grew a little older, I was surprised that he was reading a lot.
These books will definitely catch any boy’s attention. They are into super heroes and books with great illustrations.
I work at a library and another good series is Wayside School and of course the hardy boys. I know its a classic but its still super popular!!