Fiction for 6 year old boy

pinkshoes

My 5 year old loves the Enid Blyton mystery series, with 5 kids trying to solve mysteries.

https://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?productId=578189&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&searchTerm=enid

He also likes the famous five, although some of them are a little scary for young kids!! The Mystery series is a little more light hearted.

flipper_72

In addition to the ones already listed my 7 year old enjoys the Astrosaurs books, which are about dinosaurs in space, they sound to be in your son's list of likes.

barbiedoll

If he likes reading non-fiction, try these books....

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boys-Miscellany-Childrens-Martin-Oliver/dp/1780550405

My son absolutely loved them, he has 3 altogether and even now he'll still come out with some weird fact that he learned from them.

The Horrid Henry books are fab, we all loved those. And, as every reader knows, the books are always better than the tv show/film!

Also, look out for children's science or space encyclopedias and the like. Some are aimed at 8-12 year olds but it sounds as though this boy is an above-average reader. And they're always full of great pictures too. I can remember borrowing some books from our library, they were a set of "How things work" type books. We had ones about combustion engines, rockets, computers and so on. (I don't know about my son, but I learned loads from them!)

lindens

Thanks so much for all of the suggestions.
Trip to the library first on Saturday and then go from there!

teddysmum

I was going to suggest the Horrible Histories series, as though still non-fiction, they are on the fun side.


My sister, who is much younger than me ( now in her fifties) loved having me read the Faraway Tree books, which I still have. However, I'm reluctant to read them to my grandchildren as they are so upper middle class and have less meaning to 'modern' children, because they don't have the same background of fairy tales.


I, too, would suggest regular library visits. In school holidays, they have reward schemes, based on the books read.

thriftyemma

Another vote for Horrible Histories. my now 8yo boy is pretty similar, in terms of reading, to your GS. he loved the HH books. they're full of facts, humorous in places, and have engaging stories. They often sell them in B&M, for less than £1.

Spendless

My son was a late reader, having left Reception year unable to read all his key words. After being put in a group to catch up, we discovered that he enjoyed non-fiction and as such everything we'd tried just didn't interest him.

For this reason, I'm going to agree with the others who have suggested the Horrible Histories range (I'm aware they also Horrible Science and Horrible Geography). I found they bridged the gap before my DS was ready for moving on to fiction.

My own son being late to reading, enjoyed 'younger' books at age 6 such as The Gruffalo. He later moved on to Horrid Henry, all of Roald Dahl, some classics such as Charlotte's Web and The Lion, The WitCh and the Wardrobe before moving on to being hooked on the Percy Jackson series around age 9.

ecgirl07

http://www.jackstalwart.com/html/index.html

These books are set in a country with lots of non fiction facts interwoven in the story. Sounds exactly what you are looking for!

Qtipps4

some able boys who love reading non fiction find the imagery of fiction difficult at first especially if at their age they are deemed able enough for chapter bookd. They like illustrations to be there so don't shy away from picture books. Project x aliens adventures from the book people is a great series for more able readers particularly buys although my daughter loves them with strong computer generated graphics based on a new planet. There is a encyclopaedic type book that comes with it. Good luck.

Zeni

If he likes the horrible history books I would recommend also trying some of Terry Deary's history fiction books which are adventure stories but based in history with plenty of facts such as the Egyptian tales, the Tudor tales , Roman tales, Greek tales, World War I and II tales as these can be a good bridge between non fiction and fiction.