I want to get my nephew a book for Christmas, he enjoys reading. He's an adventurous active kid. I wanted to get him goosebumps cause that's what I first started reading as a kid but maybe he is too young for that?
At that age my boys LOVED dinosaur books. Also, there’s a book called “The Book With No Pictures” that they absolutely loved. It’s so silly.
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Diligent_Durian7752 on
1. Boxcar children
2. Heartwood hotel
3. The Puppy place
4. Imagination station
5. Sugar creek gang
My boys love all of these! each one has their own series.
dr_xenon on
Where the wild things are. – Maurice Sendak
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The Polar Express
AntisocialDick on
5 is pretty young. It’s an age where some kids are still struggling to read multi-syllable words and others are reading many grade levels above their age. I love the idea of Goosebumps if he is reading at an advanced level for his age. But most kids are doing picture books still at 5.
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*The book with no pictures* was a very big hit at my house at that age
Demisluktefee on
Tow Truck Pluck by Annie M.G. Schmidt
MaxPower637 on
Mercy Watson
uncertainhope on
*My Father’s Dragon*
No-Research-3279 on
Check beyondthebookends.com – they have lots of suggestions for younger kids
JessTheTwilek on
My favorite was The Monster at The End of This Book.
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Dog Man! Dav Pilkey is a treasure. When my son was into the Dog Man books I think I enjoyed them just as much as he did.
mazerbrown on
We started our kids out on the Biscuit I can Read Books. I seem to remember the I Can Read series also had Berenstein Bears and Paddington, Frog and Toad and Clark the Shark. If the little guy has been reading well, I’d consider some of the Fun Dr. Seuss books. Cat in the Hat, Summer in a Day, One Fish Two Fish, Green Eggs and Ham. They also LOVE animal fact books at that age.
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The starter reading books that are like, $5 at target.
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My 5 year old son can’t read chapter books yet but he enjoys having us read to him. One he particularly loved was a series called The Last Firehawk, the first book is called The Ember Stone. He also loved Super Turbo Saves the Day, which is the first book in a series about a group of classroom pets that are also secret superheroes. As for shorter books he is really into non-fiction books, especially about animals. Even before he could read he would love to look at them by himself.
SkyOfFallingWater on
Emil of Lönneberga series by Astrid Lindgren
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I started reading choose your own adventure books when I was in 1st grade and loved them! The fact that I had some control over the narrative was so much fun.
azzthom on
The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree, and The Folk Of The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton have just the right amount of adventure, peril, and happy endings for most children of that age.
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The Gruffalo
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At that age I LOVED the Richard Scary busy books. You could read them or make up your own stories. I find them to have so much going on that they are interactive in a way.
Also – Where the Wild things Are
Pop up Books!!!!
Robert Sabuda – His Pop up books are out of this world!!! Take a look at the Alice in wonderland center. We loved pop up books. We had one that was a ferris wheel that moved. and bridges with strings.
Actually, Just google image best pop up books.
Tonys Hard Day at Work (he build a house from scratch)
Monster at the end of this book
Dr Suess
Bernstein Bears
Tove Jansson – Moomin, Me and My
Never too young to read. Anything with GREAT illustrations will grown with him.
Like Peter Sis
Gale de Marcken
Eric Carlye
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Sideways Stories from Wayside School could be read to him!
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At that age my boys LOVED dinosaur books. Also, there’s a book called “The Book With No Pictures” that they absolutely loved. It’s so silly.
The Phantom Tollbooth
1. Boxcar children
2. Heartwood hotel
3. The Puppy place
4. Imagination station
5. Sugar creek gang
My boys love all of these! each one has their own series.
Where the wild things are. – Maurice Sendak
The Polar Express
5 is pretty young. It’s an age where some kids are still struggling to read multi-syllable words and others are reading many grade levels above their age. I love the idea of Goosebumps if he is reading at an advanced level for his age. But most kids are doing picture books still at 5.
*The book with no pictures* was a very big hit at my house at that age
Tow Truck Pluck by Annie M.G. Schmidt
Mercy Watson
*My Father’s Dragon*
Check beyondthebookends.com – they have lots of suggestions for younger kids
My favorite was The Monster at The End of This Book.
Dog Man! Dav Pilkey is a treasure. When my son was into the Dog Man books I think I enjoyed them just as much as he did.
We started our kids out on the Biscuit I can Read Books. I seem to remember the I Can Read series also had Berenstein Bears and Paddington, Frog and Toad and Clark the Shark. If the little guy has been reading well, I’d consider some of the Fun Dr. Seuss books. Cat in the Hat, Summer in a Day, One Fish Two Fish, Green Eggs and Ham. They also LOVE animal fact books at that age.
The starter reading books that are like, $5 at target.
My 5 year old son can’t read chapter books yet but he enjoys having us read to him. One he particularly loved was a series called The Last Firehawk, the first book is called The Ember Stone. He also loved Super Turbo Saves the Day, which is the first book in a series about a group of classroom pets that are also secret superheroes. As for shorter books he is really into non-fiction books, especially about animals. Even before he could read he would love to look at them by himself.
Emil of Lönneberga series by Astrid Lindgren
I started reading choose your own adventure books when I was in 1st grade and loved them! The fact that I had some control over the narrative was so much fun.
The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree, and The Folk Of The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton have just the right amount of adventure, peril, and happy endings for most children of that age.
The Gruffalo
At that age I LOVED the Richard Scary busy books. You could read them or make up your own stories. I find them to have so much going on that they are interactive in a way.
Also – Where the Wild things Are
Pop up Books!!!!
Robert Sabuda – His Pop up books are out of this world!!! Take a look at the Alice in wonderland center. We loved pop up books. We had one that was a ferris wheel that moved. and bridges with strings.
Actually, Just google image best pop up books.
Tonys Hard Day at Work (he build a house from scratch)
Monster at the end of this book
Dr Suess
Bernstein Bears
Tove Jansson – Moomin, Me and My
Never too young to read. Anything with GREAT illustrations will grown with him.
Like Peter Sis
Gale de Marcken
Eric Carlye
Sideways Stories from Wayside School could be read to him!
Look up *Dory Fantasmagory*. These are charming.