Fun Books for a 6Year Old Boy

For my nephew, I buy the Skippyjon Jones books by Judy Schachner. He really likes them and I think they are funny.

I think poetry is a great thing to expose kids too, and my son loves the Jack Prelutsky poetry books. They are funny and creative, and different than most of the books we own. They're kind of like the Shel Silverstein books I read growing up which I also totally recommend!

Hi, Have you ever heard of Usborne books. I sell them and they are the best educational books for kids. We have over 2000 titles including beginner readers about bugs, trees, etc. Including search and find books at lots of age levels. We have books that atart at babies all the way to young adult. I live in Mahomet and would love to show you what we have. Or you can check out my website at www.CrackOpenABook.com

Hi N., I have a GREAT book: Double Trouble in Walla Walla. It is a fun and exciting book to read. I love it because it is so silly, it alows the silly parent in me to come out. My nephews love this book even though the main character is a girl. I am planning to read this to my daughter's 1st grade class in November for the "surprise reader". Glad to hear you guys enjoy reading together-that's great.

Talk to your local librarian...I have found them very helpful. My little guy is still too young for me to help you out! Sorry

We love most of Doreen Cronin's books--Duck for Presdient, Click, Clack, Moo,Diary of a Worm, etc. We also just started some "Choose your own Adventure" Books. They have some that are more for ages 4-6 (I found them on Amazon and my local library). They're fun books that you choose which path to go down. You can read them over and over and have a different story every time.

My #1 suggestion: Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist by Jim Benton. My son has had us read the books over and over.

I also second the suggestion for Magic School Bus, both my kids (4 and 6) loves the books and videos.

The Beetle Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta and David Biedrzycki is another favorite (not too childish).

When I asked my 6 yr old boy to recommend a book, he suggested Micro-Facts Bugs (I think I bought at Jewel) that had a magnifying glass that came with it. Around each bug drawing, there is a very, very small sentence (hence the magnifying glass) giving you a fact about said bug.

Just a couple of thoughts. My kids loved the Flat Stanley series and my son loved the Magic School bus series. The are beginning chapter books so I think that they would work very well for you.
A.

We found a collection of Thomas the Tank Engine books for our son when he was about that age. It's a hard cover with the stories and pictures in it. My son is an excellent reader now that he's nearly 9, and still loves to read the Thomas stories.

Hope this helps.

J. R.

CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS!!!!! my son gobbled these up!!! he wanted to grasp reading sooner to get to them......Go to Scholastic books they have tons of book sets for beginning readers and then books that progress to be more challenging....also go to the library they usually have great "picture" book/beginning reader sections and let HIM pick this will also help ignite that spark....GREAT JOB!!!! on the continuing to read to him it is huge for his love of reading and learning....ours is 8, just began 2nd grade and is reading at a 4th grade level and we still read to him DAILY...it is "our" time with him and we both enjoy and benefit in SOOOOO many ways from it

Dear N.-
Good for you for reading to your child!! My youngest is almost 13, but she still likes for me to read to her several times a week, and those are precious times for us both. One of my kids' favorites has always been the "Hank the Cowdog" series by John Erickson. They are well written, with wholesome values, and are HYSTERICALLY FUNNY!!! My kid's have literally fallen off the couch laughing when I've read some of these out loud!!! Hank is a self-important, bungling mutt who lives on a ranch in Texas, and calls himself the "head of ranch security." He reminds me a lot of Barney Fife on the old Andy Griffith shows. Here are a couple of reviews from Amazon.com:

"The best family entertainment in years." -- USA Today

Hank is a scruffy, smart-alecky supersleuth with a nose for danger. And as Head of Ranch Security on a West Texas ranch, he's usually up to his ears in all kinds of amusing trouble. Whether he's called upon to "bark up the sun", investigate suspicious goings-on, or defend the ranch against marauders, Hank's hilarious, hair-raising adventures will delight readers young and old alike.

"Rip-roaring fun...[a] marvelous situation comedy." --School Library Journal

There are about 40 books in this series, and although there is plenty of good, goofy fun in this series, this author manages to skip most of the crude potty humor that many authors that target young boys seem to rely on so heavily. I've gotten all of ours from the library- so check one out and see what you think- and happy reading!!

When my son was that age I found the author Matt Christopher. All his books were about sports. Your son might be a little young - read aloud. Those became the only books my son like reading because he was - and still is - a huge sports fan.

I don't think he is too young for the Magic Treehouse series of books if you are doing the reading. They are by Mary Pope Osbourne and my boy loved them. They are very popular, very educational but in a fun and imaginative way. (Two kids travel to a different time period in every book and get to know all the various things about it, the culture, history-all of this with a plot etc. mystery they have to solve. Start with book 1.)

My 5 year old just got Skippyjon Jones and he loves it! It is very silly and imaginitive (a siamese cat who imagines he is a chihuahua sword fighter). I know there are other books in this series.

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He also loves the "How Does A Dinosaur" books (i.e. Go to School, Say Goodnight, Get Well Soon).

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What you're already doing is fabulous!!! Reading to a child is such a gift for both the parent and the child. I have been reading to my son since he was born, literally and he LOVES books and reading and being read to. Right now we are in the Boxcar Children series, he is loving it. I read him 1-2 chapters at night and many nights I 'catch' him with his light on after I have kissed him goodnight cause he just has to read some more! We have read a few of the Magic Treehouse books, but he seems to like the Boxcar Children better. Whenever I go to garage sales in the summer I am always looking for books cause you can get them for like 25 cents and then pass them along when you are done!!

Check out the books by David Shannon....he has a lot of really cute books about himself as a little boy!

Disney puts out a series of hardcover collections. The stories all feature the Disney characters we know and love, but they are short, sometimes silly, and always have a lesson of some sort. I recommend visiting www.scholastic.com. You can search by type and age appropriate books. Most of them are not available anywhere else but thru Scholastic. Ask at his school about it - most schools do a monthly Scholastic book sale.

check out this website: http://www.guysread.com/books/

Magic Schoolbus books are great for science (bugs and more!) and have a variety of written forms on the page. There are simple dialogue bubbles, short compositions by the students, paragraphs of narration, etc. And they even have ideas at the back for parents to explore the subject further with their kids.

Magic Treehouse (no relation to Magic Schoolbus!) books are also great, with lots of history presented in an interesting story. There are over 30 of them, and some have non-fiction books that go along with them. For example, a fiction book that involves a tornado, and a non-fiction book explaining storms.

Happy reading!

I was searching for new books for my 6 year old daughter last night and found this website http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/623. It has a nice description of the books and they are put in categories. My daughter loves the Magic Treehouse series, which are good for boys or girls. The Boxcar Children books are okay too, but not my favorite.

I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but try age appropriate classics like Pippy Longstocking (my 4 y/o LOVES it when my Mom reads this to him), I don't know what is current but the Bobbsey Twins and the Hardy boys were the books we read as young kids. I Cannot wait to read more advanced classics to my boys. I am hoping we can share reading as they get older too!

My six yr old who loves bugs laughed himself silly this week reading the diary of a worm, the diary of a spider and the diary of a fly!