#Long book reviews for kids series#

He isn't a pacifist, by any means, but he chooses the most direct path to the quickest end to each battle. If anything, Ender's story is one in which he constantly seeks to avoid violence. It has battles and stuff, but the battles are mostly conducted as laser tag - no actual violence except for two or three instances, and they are very well written and no real details of the violence. Whereas I think Enders Game is fine for the 10-12 group, no need to wait until High School. I want to re-read Mossflower to make sure it isn't too violent, then may work through that as well. = )ДЄfter this series, we'll move on to Magic Tree House, Boxcar Children, and I think we'll throw in some Borrowers too. Starts out with the premise of a prince being turned into a frog - what is his life like then? Very entertaining, especially reading aloud the frog prince's words, since he has a pronunciation problem with that long new tongue. It's the first of three books, and they are pretty cute. Right now we're reading Donna Jo Napoli's Prince of the Pond, a chapter a night. In addition I'm moving on to reading books to her that are on the next level. She loves to read on her own, so I let her at it for all of those. She really liked it, so we'll be getting the rest of those. (Of course, she also likes the books based on cartoon characters - Dora, Angelina, Blues Clues, Curious George, Clifford, etc.) Oh, and I just got her one of the 'Pigs' books by Amy Axelrod - they teach math skills through the stories.

Harry the Dog books by Gene Zion are also good.

#Long book reviews for kids series#

She likes the Henry & Mudge series and she's worked her way through most of those. I also just introduced her to both Amelia Bedelia and Nate the Great and she is liking them as well. Let's see, she likes the Cowgirl Kate series, and she just 'met' the Madeleine series and is liking them a lot. We've pretty much been vacuuming books up off the shelves of our library - 10-15 a week - we go every weekend to return them and get more. You can find a bunch of the books I mention in my bookshelves - under kids or tbr-kids) [Sorry, would add the links for you, but I'm getting a GR error message when I try. She loves the Magic School Bus books (and they watch the videos in her preschool). = ) Well, I wish I could take credit for it, but I didn't start this list - I posted my comment about maintenance in hopes that the list owner would see it (and delete those books.)ДЇor my 5 yr old (just turned 5 in December), she's also reading ahead of her level - now we're working on adding to her vocabulary and on reading comprehension. Kittiya wrote: 'Oh, That was such a good ideal of why to start the list! What does your 5 yr old like so far?.'