lincap Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 I need some new books for DS4. What does your 4-5 yr old like? I think if I just walk into Borders I will just sit there forever... any good booklists anywhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladydusk Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 My guy loves the Billy & Blaze books, books about space, and the books by Tiki and Ronde Barber (from the library) about good sportsmanship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 My boys are 5 and they have pretty varied tastes. Are you looking for picture books? Early readers to get them ready for reading? Chapter books for reading aloud? Longer classics and books for reading aloud? My kids do all of those at various times. It's so individual too. We do a lot of chapter books (those short, usually series books that come before the slightly longer books) as read alouds and I recently did a blog post about boy chapter books: http://farrarwilliams.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/boy-books-found/ We do longer books sometimes too. My kids love Roald Dahl. We're working our way through Dragonrider by Cornelia Funke and they've loved that. They loved The Tale of Desperaux. They really liked Nim's Island. I could go on for a long time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirch Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 I have to limit my ds to just 2 or he'll check out all the Billy and Blaze books at the library. So another vote for those here! He also really likes The Egg and The Dragon Snatcher by M. P. Robertson. He's reading shorter chapter books independently now and loves the Flat Stanley series. Some favorite read-alouds/audio books have been The Cricket in Times Square, Mr. Popper's Penguins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Chronicles of Narnia (we're working through these now), and My Father's Dragon and sequels. Echoing the previous poster--what kind of books are you looking for? I could add more to all of these categories! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom0012 Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 You've got to get The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. It has tons of great book suggestions in it. I discovered it when my children were about your age and it was wonderful to have so many fantastic books to choose from. Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbed0849 Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 If you are looking for read-alouds ,look at Sonlight grade 1 and 2 read-alouds list. I second the suggestion for Read-Aloud Handbook . Suprisingly, my son loves Little House in the Big Woods and is begging to finish LH on the Prairie. Who would have thought??? Also, sonlight has a good list of readers to choose from. My ds is 6 and we are reading some of the advanced 2 readers. So, be sure to look at 1st and 2nd grade. I am going to follow this thread. I feel like I need to go buy a Billy and Blaze book today!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 My son is 4 1/2 and he'd never sit for longer read alouds. He likes when I read him poems and enjoys especially Shel Silverstein poems but still likes nursery-rhyme type poems, too. He enjoys Dr. Seuss books. There's this very early "chapter book" called "Fire Cat" that for some reason he just loves, he'll have me read that over and over. Also, at the library recently we found a picture book that had no words. He loved when we sat and just made up the story based on the pictures, and that he could do that, too. But other than that, no particular favorites. He likes when I take him to the library and let him just pick out a handful of books on his own. Some of them are hits, some of them aren't, but he likes being able to choose them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckens Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 Uglyfish. http://www.amazon.com/Ugly-Fish-Kara-LaReau/dp/0152050825/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277645453&sr=8-1 Alistair and the Elephant Alistair in Outer Space Alistair's Science Project by Marilyn Sadler It isn't Easy Being a Bunny P.J. Funnybunny Camps Out by Marilyn Sadler Also try: Great Books for Boys by Kathleen Odean http://www.amazon.com/Great-Books-Boys-Kathleen-Odean/dp/0345420837/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277645517&sr=1-1 The library should have the Odean book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nknapp5 Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 A few my 5 yr old son loved were The Story of Dr. Dolittle, My father's dragon, boxcar children, and dolphin adventure. All titles that came from SL K read-aloud list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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