Reading Recommendations - Beginning Chapter Books

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Misty Cato

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I'm looking for beginning chapter books I can read to my 4 year old boy. We've been reading the Magic Treehouse Series and they been absolutely perfect. He's loved them. However, we've now read all the ones published to date and I'm looking for something new. Any ideas?
 
I bought some "Ready, Freddy" books for Mason (he's 6, though). Other ones I see repeatedly in the Scholastic flyers are Geronimo Stilton, Dinosaur Cove, Puppy Place (these ones look cute, I haven't bought any yet), Jigsaw Jones.
 
My kids loved:
Judy Blume books: Super Fudge, Double Fudge and Fudge A Mania!!
Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary (The Mouse and the Motorcycle,Runaway Ralph, and Ralph S. Mouse)
Everything and anything by Geronimo Stilton
 
My boys loved Nate The Great...and they also loved something about Captain Underwear or the likes...
 
We love Boxcar Children, Paddington Bear, Winnie the Pooh, Nate the Grate, Encyclopedia Brown, ANYTHING by Beverly Cleary, George & Martha, Amelia Bedelia, The Littles, and we could go on and on!

MTH is a HUGE hit at our house.
 
I love Nate the Great, The Littles, Junie B. (if you don't mind her grammar), Boxcar Children...everything listed here. :)
 
My 2nd grade students (and my 5 year old!) love Junie B. Jones, Judy Moody, Cam Jansen, A to Z Mysteries, Nate the Great, Gooney Bird Greene...
 
Thanks so much. I knew you gals would have great recommendations. I've put holds on a few of these via our library. Thanks again.
 
There are a bunch of Scooby Doo mysteries out too & many of them the...rebus? rombus? roomba? pictures in them to help with begining reading. We've got a Dinosaur Cove and a Magic Treehouse from the library now. We just finished Rip Roaring Russell and a book in the A-Z Mysteries series. (our library doesn't have a whole collection of anything)
 
Hank the Cowdog is a GREAT series and there are lots of books so it should last you a while. Our all-time favorite chapter books are the Flat Stanley series by Jeff Brown. Seriously, I LOVE them almost as much as Cameron does! We even took the boys to see "The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley" at our local stage theater.
 
Lilcameronsmommy said:
Hank the Cowdog is a GREAT series and there are lots of books so it should last you a while. Our all-time favorite chapter books are the Flat Stanley series by Jeff Brown. Seriously, I LOVE them almost as much as Cameron does! We even took the boys to see "The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley" at our local stage theater.
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Oh yeah... Flat Stanley is great! :thumbup:
 
Box Car Children (I prob have 40 of those books!)

Flat Stanley is really fun...I bought the whole series through a local egroup...got it for a really good price. My niece sent a "flat stanley" with her dad when he was activated to Iraq. He sent back pictures of flat stanley in different places and with different "wildlife" (like a big lizard they found next to him one day)...she got a kick out it. She sent me one and I took him to a crop and all the ladies posed with him outside the scrapbook store! lol It is a great way to encourage reading because people write the adventures Flat Stanley had with them. I put my niece's letters she received in a 3 ring binder so she could read them over and over. She had her own "original" flat stanley set of stories.

Captain Underpants when he is about 8 ... he'd understand more of it then. hee hee (and also understand when not to say a few of those things in the book)... lol Captain Underpants was saved until they could read...and it soooo appealed to a boy's sense of humor so it really encouraged them to read for themselves.
 
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Lilcameronsmommy said:
Hank the Cowdog is a GREAT series and there are lots of books so it should last you a while. Our all-time favorite chapter books are the Flat Stanley series by Jeff Brown. Seriously, I LOVE them almost as much as Cameron does! We even took the boys to see "The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley" at our local stage theater.
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Hank is AWESOME. I love the books, and they crack me up LOL. Benjamin is a huge fan of Hank!

He also liked Captain Underpants, Judy Blume (Super Fudge, etc), Magic Schoolbus, Boxcar Children...I can't think of anything else right now, but Benjamin is an avid reader, reads all the time, so I'll check out his bookshelf tomorrow!
 
Lilcameronsmommy said:
Hank the Cowdog is a GREAT series and there are lots of books so it should last you a while. Our all-time favorite chapter books are the Flat Stanley series by Jeff Brown. Seriously, I LOVE them almost as much as Cameron does! We even took the boys to see "The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley" at our local stage theater.
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You know, I was going to suggest Hank, but thought it a bit too old and verbage heavy for 4. But we LOOOVE our Hank books at our house - and listening to the CD's for rest time and travel times!
 
Both of my kids have absolutely loved all of the Laura Numeroff books (If You Take a Mouse to School, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, etc.) I loved reading them to my daughter when she was younger and I made sure to save all of them and I'm so glad that I did because now my 2 and a half-year old son thinks they're so funny. I can't wait til he's reading them on his own (he thinks he can now but of course it's just memorization. So cute, though!)
 
My son (he's 7 but still learning to read) is hooked on the Magic Tree House books, too. He also likes Nate the Great and has those Ready Freddy. He also has the Weird School books.
The girls have Junie B Jones and Judy Moody and he listens if they/I'm reading them out loud but the ones he really liked (of the "girls'" books) were Ivy & Bean. The books are about 2 7yo girls but they are really cute and funny. I was reading one to my 6yo and he was supposed to be doing his homework and ended up listening to the whole story and wanted to listen to the next one, too. I struggle to find stuff he's interested in (he hates to read).
 
my kids always loved the Magic Treehouse (think thats what they were called)

The also liked Freckle Juice, How To Eat Fried Worms, SuperFudge, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Amelia the Great, All the Ramona books

I love the Encyclopedia Brown stories as a young kid and the original Boxcar Children book.
 
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