Help with book suggestions

[Mama Geek]

Dd is now reading a Christmas Carol.  She has read and enjoyed

The Black Stallion  

several Ronald Dahl books and is kind of tired of those,  

Stuart Little

The Trumpet of the Swan

Misty of Chincoteague

A Mouse Called Wolf

Henry Huggins

The Tale of Despereaux

Because of Winn Dixie

Mr Popper's Penguins

 

She read Little House in the Big Woods and started Little house on the Prairie and is kind of tired of it.

 

We have read aloud

Seabiscuit

The Wright Brothers

Dove

Home is the Sailor (current read aloud)

A couple of books about young sailors sailing around the world like Jessica Watson

 

Does anyone have suggestions for what else she might like?  Classics or stuff for read alouds that are true and adventurous.  She doesn't like unhappy ending right now.

[Lori D.]

There are a number of sequels to The Black Stallion, and there is a parallel series by the same author (Walter Farley) with 2-3 titles with a different teen boy and different fabulous horse -- the first in that series is called Island Stallion.

 

Also, Marguerite Henry, the author of Misty of Chincoteague has written quite a few other horse books.

 

Two other horse books that may be of interest: Black Beauty (Sewell), and Smoky the Cow Pony (James).

 

For realistic adventure:

- The Cay (Taylor) -- shipwreck survival

- Island of the Blue Dolphins (O'Dell) -- stranded alone on an island

- Call it Courage (Armstrong) -- South Seas islander boy overcomes his fear of the ocean

- Daughter of the Mountains -- Nepalese girl travels alone into India to recover her stolen dog

- My Side of the Mountain (George) -- and sequels -- teen boy surviving/"living off the land"

- Caddie Woodlawn (Brink) -- pioneer times, which may not fly if she's tired of that

- Naya Nuki (Thomasa) -- true story of a friend of Sacajawea, stolen by rival Indians, travels 1000 miles alone to get home

- The Great Wheel (Lawson) -- fun adventure of an immigrant teen boy who helps build the first Ferris wheel

 

Other adventure:

- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Aiken) -- and sequels

- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Fleming)

- The Twenty One Balloons (du Bois) -- fun Jules Verne like adventure with inventions

- Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (Fields) -- a doll recounts the places she's been and the adventures she's had

 

Realistic Animal Adventure (no dogs die -- LOL)

- Summer of the Monkeys (Rawls)

- Shiloh (Naylor)

- Rascal (North)

- Owls in the Family (Farley)

- Big Red

- Gentle Ben

 

For talking animal adventure:

- One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Smith)

- 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)

- Watership Down (Adams) -- probably a read-aloud

 

For a read-alouds:

- Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery) -- real life misadventures

- Mysterious Island (Verne) -- 1800s futuristic inventions

- Treasure Island (Stevenson)

- Kon Tiki (Heyersdahl) -- non-fiction account of the Norwegian crew of 6 men who in 1948 built a log raft and recreated traveling from South America to the South Seas Islands.

Edited November 16, 2016 by Lori D.

[three4me]

My Dd has read and enjoyed quite a few of those. She also loves The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Magic Faraway Tree, Tumtum and Nutmeg, Flora and Ulysses, and A Little Princess.

[Ausmumof3]

You could check the Sonlight Core b reading list for ideas as you look like several of your books are on their list so would provide stuff at a similar level.

 

I'd add Charlottes web at least.

[Kathleen.]

"The Adventures of a South Pole Pig" by Chris Kurtz. "A Nest for Celeste" and"Brambleheart" by Henry Cole.

[SarahW]

Has she tried Astrid Lindgren? Pippi Longstocking is the most famous, it's funny and has adventure. Brothers Lionheart moves into fantasy and is a bit heavy. There's other books by her, but I'm not so familiar with them.

[Loesje22000]

Has she tried Astrid Lindgren? Pippi Longstocking is the most famous, it's funny and has adventure. Brothers Lionheart moves into fantasy and is a bit heavy. There's other books by her, but I'm not so familiar with them.

 

For a 5yo DD I would start with Lotta / Troublemakerstreet / Noisy Village

For a DS the Michiel Stories might be more interesting.

After that Follows the Pippi Longstocking stories and the Karlsson (with the propellor on his back) stories,Seacrow Island .

Ronja and Rasmus (2 different titles) are about that age too.

 Bill Bergson (Blomkwist) books and Lionheart are geared to older middle and upper elementary years IMO.

Bill Bergson is about real criminals, real crimes, and real dead bodies :D

Lionhart is a fantasy story about dead of a beloved brother / the after life / reincarnation if you read the book that way.

 

Most books of Astrid Lindgren are funny and adventurious indeed.

But they don't show much respect to parents, teachers and other adults.

The childeren are a little rebellious sometimes.

Sometimes it is fun, sometimes you don't want to see that behaviour copied in your own child ;)

[ealp2009]

My kids love Heidi and other books by Johanna Spyri.

 

 

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