I need a book recommendation.........

[sbstudley]

I am looking for a story book I can be reading to my 7 year old daughter at night.
Thank you for your help.

[glock 19z]

Start reading her the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. You can amazon.com it, or look at www.redwall.org (I think thats the site). I read them when I was that age, and still read the new ones to my friends kids. They love them, and there are morals and all that happy horse crap in them as well. I'd highly recommend them to anyone to read them to their kids.

[Notrega]

There is a book or series about kids living in a railroad car... I know sounds like a weird story but I remeber that from school at that age and it was great. good for a girl too....


PLEASE don't do a Dora or other type BS

[PeterJasonMN]

Blackhawk Down!

Just skip out the part about the "combat jacks" ;f

[sbstudley]

Thanks for your help. Any other ideas are welcome and appreciated.

Steve

[sbstudley]

I read the first chapter of Redwall to my daughter tonight and she had no interest in the story ;g
Any other suggestions?

Steve

[jake9]

I like the early English novels. They're old but all kid-safe and should be still in print. Some might be too "boyish" for your daughter. Seven years old might be too young still for some of these.


-Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
-The Jungle Book or Captains Couragous by R. Kipling
-Call of the Wild or White Fang by J. London
-The Little Prince by French guy in early 20th cent.


Good luck. Tell us what works and what doesn't.

[RiverVan]

Driftwood Valley by Theodora Stanwell Fletcher, published in 1946 from her journals she kept while living in the northern british colombia wildreness. It might be a little to mature for her, but not inappropriate. Great Book

[PeterJasonMN]

In seriousness though, about 7y/o is when our teachers/parents got us into reading the Beverly Cleary "Ribsy" and "Ramona" book series.

Link (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/103-6927760-9219021?url=index%3Dblended&field-keywords=Beverly+Cleary)

This one's a really funny book about summer camp:

I Want To Go Home (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0590330462/103-6927760-9219021?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance)

[mitchshrader]

heidi

(one of my faves but maybe a couple years soon)
swiss family robinson

A GREAT BOOK: The Princess Bride (may again be a little advanced, but there's GREAT scenes, with swashing and buckling and bombast and heroic speeches .. guy uses a trowel to pile it on, sweet stuff..

tarzan

black beauty

dr suess (for giggles)

tell STORIES. make em up.

talk about ancestors. where you came from, what happened 100, 200 years ago..

and you MAY look at some of Jonathan swifts stuff, or Daniel Defoe..

worth it, on either one, to do excerpts..

oh, and as an ex-home schooler, single dad of two sane teenage females..

KUDOS! You may not yet realize what the worth is of your time investment. Make it anyway. Time, REGULAR NON TELEVISION TIME, with your children, is a one chance, goes by and it's GONE opportunity.

You won't regret a moment of it ever, and your kid(s) will be saner & have character..

[Taipei Personality]

The "American Girl" series was popular with my daughter. They're stories of everyday girls set in different historical periods.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0937295779/103-6867971-3456663?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance

[MrMurphy]

C.S Lewis. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and all the other books in that series.

I read them when I was about 5.

[RunsWithScissor]

My daughter (who is now 25) - yup, I was a child bride, still remembers us reading the "Little House on the Prairie" series. Much better than the TV shows we all think of (they took way too much artistic license to make the advertisers happy).

Glad you're spending quality time reading with your daughter, loving good books is a gift she'll enjoy her whole life.

[sbstudley]

Thank you all for all the great information. I was able to contact my local library and put several of these on hold.

Youve got to love the Glock Talk community.

Steve

[dfbarnes]

Originally posted by MrMurphy
C.S Lewis. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and all the other books in that series.

I read them when I was about 5.

+1 on the series. My mother read the entire series with my sister and I when we were young.

There is a motion picture out in a few weeks, that could help to urge her interest in the series.

When she gets older, Lewis has a lot of other great writings for adults.

[Lookingglass]

I'm not a girl, but books I enjoyed as a kid were The Little Britches series by Ralph Moody. The books chronicle a boys life from the time that he loses his father in the late 1890s until he gets married. 'The Fields of Home' and 'Shaking the Nickel Tree' were my favorites of the series.

I also got a kick out of the Hank the Cowdog books. They are great to read to your kids because you will probably enjoy them as much or more.

Others were;

The Prince and the Pauper
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Big Red
Black Beauty
The Black Stallion
Call of the Wild
Where the Red Fern Grows
Captains Courageous
Jungle Book


Oops, these are all boys books. Oh well, somebody might get a few good ideas.

My folks read to me all the time up to the age of probably 12 or 13. I believe that reading to your kids will make them better readers. Also you can pick out what they hear, so

[Vic303]

Narnia Chronicles
The HObbit, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Keep trying with the Redwall stuff--it takes a bit to get into the story.

[Glocknsgreat]

"Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell