It is interesting to me to see the kids' tastes develop as readers.
As new readers, neither N nor G stuck with The Magic Treehouse series for very long, although they both enjoyed them for a time (this was kind of a bummer to me because I rather enjoyed them.)
N was big into Junie B. Jones in early elementary (and I enjoyed Junie's wit and mouth, although I probably would not had those words been coming out of my actual child's mouth). She dabbled in the Puppy Place series and Thea Stilton, but nothing really stuck. I threw Newbury winners at her (and still do) and even though she fought me (and still does), she was (and is) always crazy about the book by the time she got a chapter or two in.
G has been on a Geronimo Stilton reading kick this school year.
Since school began he has read these:
#3 Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House
#6 Paws Off, Cheddarface!
#14 The Temple of the Ruby of Fire
#18 Shipwreck on the Pirate Islands
#46 The Haunted Castle
He sorta fought reading chapter books, so I am very happy he has taken to these books and continues checking them out. He is a big fantasy, mystical creature lover so when he saw these mentioned in the back of one of the other books, he was very keen to read them. I hightailed it to the local Scholastic warehouse sale and bought him the three in this series that I could find.
As new readers, neither N nor G stuck with The Magic Treehouse series for very long, although they both enjoyed them for a time (this was kind of a bummer to me because I rather enjoyed them.)
N was big into Junie B. Jones in early elementary (and I enjoyed Junie's wit and mouth, although I probably would not had those words been coming out of my actual child's mouth). She dabbled in the Puppy Place series and Thea Stilton, but nothing really stuck. I threw Newbury winners at her (and still do) and even though she fought me (and still does), she was (and is) always crazy about the book by the time she got a chapter or two in.
G has been on a Geronimo Stilton reading kick this school year.
Since school began he has read these:
#3 Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House
#6 Paws Off, Cheddarface!
#14 The Temple of the Ruby of Fire
#18 Shipwreck on the Pirate Islands
#46 The Haunted Castle
He sorta fought reading chapter books, so I am very happy he has taken to these books and continues checking them out. He is a big fantasy, mystical creature lover so when he saw these mentioned in the back of one of the other books, he was very keen to read them. I hightailed it to the local Scholastic warehouse sale and bought him the three in this series that I could find.
This is the one he is reading now. It is a little like The Fellowship of the Ring. There is a giant, the king of the fairies (who appears as a deer) and Puss in Boots. D and I take turns having G read to us at night, so I can't follow the story much more closely than that.
These are the other two he will read.
We sent in for a special "gift" from Geronimo and got this back. G was pretty excited to get it and specifically mentioned that Geronimo says writing stories isn't as hard as you think.
One of the things I like about these books is the way some of the words are highlighted, colored, or in unusual fonts. Not all of the words are big or difficult or mean anything particularly helpful, but some are/do. If nothing else, the unusual lettering makes the reader pay attention because the word might be important. Or it might just be cool the way the font mimics what the word is, like "frozen" is done in white/blue and looks like ice.
G is enough of a vested reader that he has asked me to define a number of words that he has read in the Geronimo books, which is a good sign, I think. He cares enough and/or is paying attention enough to want to know.
So until it ends, the love affair will continue....
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