Finding Books Your Child Will Love

(This is one of a series of posts in the Parentlode Book Club. You can also find a list of books that parents either love or hate, or suggestions of apps that help kids love to read, or any of the other Bookclub offerings about how to give your children a love of books.).

The more I love a book, the more slowly I read. I noticed my kids doing that too, over the years, not wanting to get to the end because then it will be gone.

We have been talking about loving books here at the Parentlode Book Club for four weeks now, and the last installment of that conversation today is in three parts.

This first, compiled with the help of Pam Allyn and the literacy champions over at LitWorld, tries to fill the emptiness after you have come to the last page of a book that you love. We gave Pam a list of books that kids love, and asked her to pair them (like wine, but with words) with other books that have the same soul. The author of such books as "Pam Allyn's Best Books for Boys" and "Your Child's Writing Life," that is Pam's mission -- to help children learn the joy of being so captivated by a book that they can't wait to open the next. "That's how to cultivate lifelong readers," she says,"using the stories our kids already love as a roadmap for future reading."

(The other two parts are a list of reading apps for kids, and a look at kids books that some parents love but others hate.)

Have you discovered pairings of your own? Using Pam's list as a jumping off point, and your children as consultants, use the comments to help us create a mix and match that children of all ages can use.

Comments

[Naturebound]

03:40 PM on 12/06/2011

Try IN THE NICK OF TIME and THE TIME OF HIS LIFE by J. Lee Graham. If you're wanting to 'pair' genres, these are terrific time travel novels. I can't help but agree, however, with allowing kids to find their own way through the literature without the 'forced' pairing.

[BettyEverdene]

10:08 AM on 12/06/2011

My sister's kids love "Fabrizio's Fable" written in English & Italian. They really love to repeat the Italian "Corri! Corri!" as Fabrizio runs from the cat. http://www.pbdmusic.com/fabrizio.html

[ecotopian]

05:31 PM on 12/05/2011

Not necessarily. My daughters, 12 and 13, read Harry Potter and have recently started to read my Ellis Peters' Cadfael books. They aren't even close to the same genre. Let kids explore all sorts of books regardless of what they have read in the past..

[ESerafina42]

05:33 PM on 12/03/2011

I've read Hex Hall, and while I enjoyed it, it was no Harry Potter.

[Amber Hinds]

01:53 AM on 12/03/2011

You have more self control than I do.  If I love a book I find every possible moment to squeeze in more reading to get top the end (and find out what happens) as soon as possible.  Books I'm not into as much take longer.

Thanks for the pairings.  That's nice.

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