kwg Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 If your 8 year old is obsessed with C and H, what other books did he like? He also has loves The 13 Story Treehouse and sequels. I can get him to get read other things but it is *not* happily. TIA ETA- We did try others by the author of 13 Treehouse and ds was uninterested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pehp Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 My son has recently read a couple of Magic Tree House books. I don't like them much, but he sailed through two books in one afternoon after our library visit, and he loved them. He enjoys Clyde Robert Bulla, but I can't say it is love. Not like Calvin & Hobbes. He will read anything I throw at him that is related to his current interests....lately that includes theatre set construction and manatees. Who knew?! He adores C&H, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlight Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 The original Dennis the Menace comics Garfield Peanuts Horrid Henry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grover Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Lunch Lady http://www.amazon.com/Lunch-Lady-Cyborg-Substitute/dp/0375846832 sigh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Garfield and Peanuts. For chapter books, any of the shorter ones by Roald Dahl, How to Train Your Dragon, Avatar the Last Airbender chapter books. Now at 11 he's read the entire Harry Potter series and isn't afraid if fat books. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Peanuts! Also Garfield, anything about dragons, and anything about mythology. (But I'm talking about DD13. Yup, just like her Daddy, facinated with C&H.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth S Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 SOON: Series of Unfortunate Events? Time Warp Trio? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deerforest Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Ah, my DD loves Calvin and Hobbes. Costco had the entire set before Christmas, and it was one of the only things she asked for! She and a friend are performing an aerial silks duet in May, and she's going to be Hobbes, and I managed to find a tiger leotard. She also loves Peanuts (I think she's read all of them from the 50s-90s) and Get Fuzzy, which is a single guy living with his hilarious dog and cat. We happened to have a bunch of those because DH and I loved them, and she got really into them too. Her non-comic interests are mostly older realistic fiction nowadays with girl protagonists so likely not as interesting to your DS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 What is it with 8 year olds and Calvin and Hobbes? Mine has read our books till they fell apart. She also likes Garfield, Babymouse, Squish (by the same author, but more gender-neutral). In "real" books, she loves the Percy Jackson series, and Harry Potter though she's self-selected to only read the first 4 books at this point. She loves all kinds of mythology, though she's not a huge fairy tale fan. She blew through Shannon Hale's Princess in Black in about 15 minutes, so I'm thinking of trying her on some more Hale books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 My dd read comics avidly for years. She enjoyed both the humor and the narrative/personalities behind it, so those were usually present in other books she enjoyed. The Sam Campbell series is good for that age. TinTin. We used the TQ history guides and she liked historical fiction with either the human element (COFAs, for instance) or humor (Mr. Revere and I). It wasn't so much that I looked for books with humor as that she just seemed to gravitate to them. She still likes things with that irony, satire, or twist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22ns Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Ds was obsessed with Calvin and Hobbes. We have them all and he read them constantly in 3rd grade. Other favorites at that age: The Secrets of Droon Geronimo Stilton Captain Underpants (yuck) To this day, he credits the Secrets of Droon series with getting him hooked on reading and even making him want to become an author, his current goal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 DS also liked: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Geronimo Stilton Hank Zipzer He's also very into Minecraft and Pokémon so he loves reading the various guidebooks, manga, comics, etc. for both of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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