lorisuewho Posted April 15, 2016 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
nannyaunt Posted April 15, 2016 Posted April 15, 2016 Pippi Longstocking The Littles The Borrowers Quote
Eagle Posted April 15, 2016 Posted April 15, 2016 Fortunately, the Milk Frindle How to Train Your Dragon A Whole Nother Story Muddle Earth Quote
TriciaT Posted April 15, 2016 Posted April 15, 2016 The Moffats The Saturdays Half Magic Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote
Bluegoat Posted April 15, 2016 Posted April 15, 2016 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi The Witches Boy The Moffats Quote
Tanaqui Posted April 15, 2016 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
Lori D. Posted April 15, 2016 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
clementine Posted April 15, 2016 Posted April 15, 2016 Mrs. Piggle Wiggle was one of our favorites! Quote
dragonflyer Posted April 15, 2016 Posted April 15, 2016 The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks by McArthur. Quote
BrittanyM Posted April 15, 2016 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
Tanaqui Posted April 15, 2016 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
lorisuewho Posted April 16, 2016 Author 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
nature girl Posted April 16, 2016 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
J-rap Posted April 16, 2016 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
Bluegoat Posted April 16, 2016 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
Guest Posted April 18, 2016 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
Homeschoolmom3 Posted April 18, 2016 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
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