lorisuewho Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 I just finished reading aloud Number the Stars. Although it is an excellent book, I now really want to read something light-hearted and fun. What comes to mind? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nannyaunt Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Pippi Longstocking The Littles The Borrowers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Fortunately, the Milk Frindle How to Train Your Dragon A Whole Nother Story Muddle Earth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriciaT Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 The Moffats The Saturdays Half Magic Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi The Witches Boy The Moffats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 (edited) This is just off the top of my head. I can come up with more if you've read all these. The Penderwicks Misadventures of the Family Fletcher Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer Pickle The Grand Plan to Fix Everything A Year Down Yonder The Toothpaste Millionaire Ramona The Great Greene Heist How Tia Lola Came to Stay (short!) Clementine Year of the Dog All-of-a-Kind Family Swindle Strawberry Hill Children of Noisy Village Edited April 15, 2016 by Tanaqui Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildwood Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Homer Price 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 A Hat Full Of Sky by Terry Pratchett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 (edited) The Ordinary Princess (Kaye) By the Great Horn Spoon (Fleischman) The Whipping Boy (Fleischman) Half Magic, Magic by the Lake, Knight's Castle (Eager) Ben and Me (Lawson) Mr. Revere and I (Lawson) The Rescuers -- and sequels (Sharp) Pippi in the South Seas (Lindgren) Mr. Popper's Penguins (Atwater) Mrs. Piggle Wiggle (MacDonald) Rascal (North) Owls in the Family (Mowat) Henry Huggins series (McCleary) Bromeliad trilogy: Truckers, Diggers, Wings (Pratchett) Christmas Every Day (Howells) Letters from Father Christmas (Tolkien) -- one of these editions: ISBN 10: 0007663714 / ISBN 13: 9780007663712 / ISBN 10: 039559698X ISBN 13: 9780395596982 Edited April 15, 2016 by Lori D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clementine Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Mrs. Piggle Wiggle was one of our favorites! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonflyer Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks by McArthur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrittanyM Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 The BFG, my 7 and 5 year old loved it so much they constantly asked me for it and laughed out loud a lot! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 (edited) The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks by McArthur. Now recently back in print! Or at least the later novels are. Oddly, I think the first one may still be OOP. The Witches Boy I don't know if either of these classify as lighthearted. In The Witches, he stops a plot to destroy all the world's children, but he's permanently turned into a mouse, closing on the realization that he won't outlive his grandmother. He seems okay with this, but... well, it's not like he has any choice but to be okay with it, right? As for Boy, Roald Dahl's childhood was interesting, certainly, but an awful lot of terrible things seem to have happened to him! Edited April 15, 2016 by Tanaqui Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TracyP Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 The Search for Delicious 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorisuewho Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 Thank you for all the happy suggestions! I now have about 5 or 6 books coming to me from amazon. So many awesome ideas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nature girl Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 My DD is currently reading Sideways Stories from Wayside School, and loving it! (Every once in awhile I'll hear her snicker from her chair... :) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles The BFG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 One of the funniest books I read to my kids around that age was "Gretchen's Hill" by Jeannette Eyerly. Now, I did read it to my daughters, and I don't know if it would be equally enjoyable for boys? It does have boys in it though. Also, it's an older book -- from the 1960's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Now recently back in print! Or at least the later novels are. Oddly, I think the first one may still be OOP. I don't know if either of these classify as lighthearted. In The Witches, he stops a plot to destroy all the world's children, but he's permanently turned into a mouse, closing on the realization that he won't outlive his grandmother. He seems okay with this, but... well, it's not like he has any choice but to be okay with it, right? As for Boy, Roald Dahl's childhood was interesting, certainly, but an awful lot of terrible things seem to have happened to him! Hmm, I think of them both as lighthearted - The Witches in part because the terrible things are so silly. It isn't serious like a book where something realistic happens - a child or parent dies, people are sold into slavery, and so on. As far as Boy, it is very much in the completed past to me, and as the narrator he seems very comfortable with it, and it is very funny. There is not a sense of ongoing activity that might be bad or scary. But I can see some kids might not like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 The Moffats The Saturdays < snip > Those are what I have sitting on my bedside table for when i finish <strikethrough> destroying my baby's innocence</strikethrough> reading my youngest a book about The Manhattan Project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homeschoolmom3 Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 I agree with the others who mentioned: Mrs. Piggle Wiggle and Pippi Longstocking. I love Pippi! My son and I are reading it right now, it is just SO funny! Another idea is: Amelia Bedelia or Fantastic Mr. Fox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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