Momma4Boys Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 my 4 boys that I can read all at one time - they range in age from 13 down to 6. Thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 (edited) Ouch! A big age/maturity range to stretch over! Well, here are some ideas to get you started -- some may be a little young for the 13yo, and some may be a little old for the 6yo, but I did my best to come up with things that a wide audience would enjoy. And -- almost all boy protagonists! BEST of luck! Warmly, Lori D. CLASSICS - Rikki Tikki Tavi (Kipling) - Just So Stories (Kipling) - The Jungle Book (Kipling) - Christmas Every Day (Howells) - The Reluctant Dragon (Graham) - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll) - The Princess and the Goblins (MacDonald) - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain) - Call of the Wild (London) - Treasure Island (Stevenson) - Merry Adventures of Robin Hood; Men of Iron; The Story of King Arthur & His Knights; The Book of Pirates (Pyle) - Black Beauty (Sewell) - Tanglewood Tales (Hawthorne) -- ancient Greek myths - A Child's Christmas in Wales (Thomas) - Tales from Shakespeare (Lamb) - A Christmas Carol (Dickens) - Cricket on the Hearth (Dickens) - The Magic Fishbone (Dickens) - Black Ships Before Troy; The Wanderings of Odysseus (Sutcliffe) - Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) - The Prince and the Pauper (Twain) REAL LIFE ADVENTURE - Little Britches (Moody) - The Great Brain series (Fitzgerald) - The Toothpaste Millionaire (Merrill) - The Pushcart War (Merrill) - Swiss Family Robinson (Wyss) - Island of the Blue Dolphins (O'Dell) - The Cay (Taylor) - Call it Courage (Armstrong) REAL LIFE WITH ANIMALS ADVENTURE - My Side of the Mountain (George) - Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls) - The Black Stallion, The Black Stallion Returns, Island Stallion (Farley) - Big Red (Kjelgaard) - Gentle Ben (Morey) - James Herriot's Treasury for Children (Herriot) FANTASY ADVENTURE - The Never Ending Story (Ende) - The Book of Dragons (Nesbit) - Five Children and It (Nesbitt) - Half Magic, Magic by the Lake, Knight's Castle (Eager) - The Father Christmas Letters (Tolkien) - The Hobbit (Tolkien) - Farmer Giles of Ham (Tolkien) - The Sea of Trolls (Farmer) - Peter and the Star Catchers (Barry) - Book of Three (Alexander) - The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster) FANTASY WITH TALKING ANIMALS - The Rescuers; Miss Bianca; The Turret; Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines; Miss Bianca in the Orient (Sharp) - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (O'Brien) - Redwall Series (Jacques) TALL TALE - The Twenty-One Balloons (DuBois) - The Whipping Boy (Fleischman) - By the Great Horn Spoon (Fleischman) - Bromeliad Trilogy: Diggers, Truckers, Wings (Pratchett) HISTORICAL ADVENTURE - Adam of the Road (Gray) -- Medieval England - The Master Puppeteer (Paterson) - 1700s Japan - Johnny Tremain (Forbes) -- Revolutionary War - The Great Wheel (Lawson) -- building of the first Ferris Wheel, late 1800s - Snow Treasure (McSwigan) -- WW2, Norweigan children save their country's gold from occupying Germans Edited June 25, 2012 by Lori D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NittanyJen Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 wow, awesome list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serendipitous journey Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 (edited) Lori's list is phenomenal. !!! A few that have charmed both my 6yo and my husband: The Trumpet of the Swan Charlotte's Web A Bear Called Paddington Winnie-the-Pooh (very clever!) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (by L Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz) The Wind in the Willows (esp. if you can find a beautifully illustrated version) Edited June 25, 2012 by serendipitous journey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Just wanted to say - Lori D, you're awesome! :) :iagree: great lists! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5wolfcubs Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Lori D's list is fabulous, as always! And as serendipitous journey said Winnie the Pooh is very clever, dh & I enjoyed it more than the kids, I think! Some more to consider: Swallows and Amazons -- summer adventure on a little sail boat, set in the 40s or 50s Surviving the Applewhites -- modern eccentric homeschooling family Puck of Pook's Hill -- Kipling, just started this and loving it! The Search for Delicious -- short fantasy, thought provoking in the guise of sweet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas_mom Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Great list! I wanted to push Swallows and Amazon Series. :D Author Ransome is a great author and his books are great. Have fun choosing your books :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassy Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I read aloud every bedtime to my four boys, ages 5 to 13 yo (all piled into my bed). Most nights the 5 yo falls asleep within 10 minutes, and often the 7 yo has fallen asleep well before we finish. Just now, though, we're reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick, and all the amazing drawings are keeping the younger two captivated, while the older two are fascinated by the whole experience. I struggle to get them to go to bed these days, they just keep wanting more and more :001_smile:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma4Boys Posted June 25, 2012 Author Share Posted June 25, 2012 What great suggestions!!! I have enough books to last quite a while now! You guys ROCK!:hurray: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughing lioness Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 The Wilderking series. Narnia The Hobbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilly Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I thought I would add a book we discovered at Amazon this week. It is called The Mystery of Smugglers Cove. It is a fun, easy book about a group of children who get caught up in a mystery while on school holiday. My kids have enjoyed reading it this week. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cathy in MA Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Thank you so much for this awesome list! It's raining here today, we finished our last read aloud on the wknd, off to the library we go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnointedHsMom Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Awesome list!! I've not read aloud much at all because of the age difference between my boys. I need to rethink when I read aloud too. Thanks again for all the ideas! :thumbup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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