pocjets Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 My DD is reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and has asked for more from the same author. What are some favorites that would be good to buy? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 We've liked The BFG - I liked it better than Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi26 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 I loved the following growing up and my kids have enjoyed them so far as well: Matilda James and the Giant Peach The BFG 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minerva Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 The BFG and Matilda are our favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4KookieKids Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 How old/mature is your dd? Because I know that our ds really liked Charlie and the Chocolate factory, but when we re-read our favorite Dahl books from our own childhood (and several that we hadn't been familiar with), we were struck very quickly by the fact that he was not even close to developmentally ready to read the others (possibly excepting Charlie and the great glass elevator and most of James and Giant peach). There was just lots of name-calling and some fairly scary scenes, depending on how sensitive your kid is. Disclaimer: our kids are super sensitive (as evidenced by their crying in Ice age when the baby gets taken from its family at the beginning, or their crying in Tinkerbell and the great fairy rescue when Tink and the girl separate, just as two examples. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pocjets Posted March 18, 2015 Author Share Posted March 18, 2015 How old/mature is your dd? Because I know that our ds really liked Charlie and the Chocolate factory, but when we re-read our favorite Dahl books from our own childhood (and several that we hadn't been familiar with), we were struck very quickly by the fact that he was not even close to developmentally ready to read the others (possibly excepting Charlie and the great glass elevator and most of James and Giant peach). There was just lots of name-calling and some fairly scary scenes, depending on how sensitive your kid is. Disclaimer: our kids are super sensitive (as evidenced by their crying in Ice age when the baby gets taken from its family at the beginning, or their crying in Tinkerbell and the great fairy rescue when Tink and the girl separate, just as two examples. She is 10. I don't love name-calling and I've heard some of his books were "tacky" for a lack of a better word so I was hoping to get a good list here. I don't particularly mind "scary" though. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perogi Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 I love Danny, Matilda, and BFG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKWAcademy Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Fantastic Mr Fox and James and the Giant Peach. Quick reads. Very enjoyable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 I had a thread a while back about best "starter" Roald Dahl books for a very young kid. I got several good suggestions, which we've enjoyed adding to our read alouds. It may give you ideas for which books are less dark and/or rude :). http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/526355-roald-dahl-starters/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Matilda and The BFG were our favorites (in addition to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Danny Champion of the World is also very good. The rest of them are good too, and well worth reading, but not not quite up to these. James and the Giant Peach starts out very well but then sort of loses it in the middle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Our favorites after Charlie were The BFG, James and the Giant Peach and The Witches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reign Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 My Roald Dahl fan loved all the books except for BFG. That she didn't even finish. She is saving Matilda for later. She saw part of the movie and heard the sound track from the musical and thinks it's too sad. The book of poems is great too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanikit Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 My DD has been reading them all, starting with the shorter ones - her favourites though were The Witches and The BFG. I liked the Magic Finger when I was very young, but by 10 Matilda, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, James and the Giant Peach are probably more suitable. You can also get her to read Boy and Going Solo at that age - usually though these two are read after some exposure to his fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathnerd Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 My sensitive kid was scared to read some of them - he was upset for a couple of days when the farmer shot the Fox's tail off in Fantastic Mr. Fox. Not all kids are as sensitive, so if yours are not, this is the list I recommend: Matilda Fantastic Mr. Fox BFG Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto2Cs Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 All of them. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaMere Academy Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Pretty much all of them, but I have to say we didn't enjoy Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator. Just too weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 I'll vote for all of them, right down to The Twits. The slim volumes really brought chapter books alive for my kids. They are quirky and unusual, which is exactly what endeared them to us. :001_smile: The name-calling gave us some fabulous examples of why you shouldn't, and none of my kids felt the need to start calling people ridiculous names. DS/10th did briefly complain about The Witches when he first read it eons ago. He read it nonstop until he finished it, totally sucked in! Then he told me, "I can't believe you told me to read something like that,. I'm never reading that again," with the most horrified expression. LOL Now he remembers it fondly and even suggested DD/1st try it, so he couldn't have been too scarred. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplejackmama Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 My son and I loved Danny. We had big smiles on our tear stained face throughout the book. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalphs Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 James and the Giant Peach and Matilda were our family favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 ladybugs Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 The BFG here. Though we can't read it to our boys. My husband read it to our daughter when she was in the NICU (5 month stay) and she died. Neither of us have been able to pick up the book since. :( 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSinNS Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 I actually always thought his stuff was really weird as a kid. But I loved (loved, loved) Danny Champion of the World, so it was one of the first novels my oldest read (it followed his bird obsession at the time) and he loved it too. I also really liked the Minpins, though the version we had was a picture book, which might be too young for your guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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