All About Grooming & Encouraging Good Reading Habits
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BlueBells:
Popular Bookstore is having sales now, so I picked up two titles to let my boy try out.
I have read one Geronimo Stilton book, and though I agree that the artwork of the book is very enticing, I am not in the least bit captivated by the story line.
Although I agree that the storyline is so-so, that mouse is working his magic on my boy.
I have not been nagging him to read for the past week (Yippee!!). He is on his second book now. 
breguet:
Erm...still remember which title is that?All this talk about good looking women, I feel, is not exactly appropriate for young children. I didn't know how to explain to my 5yo!
My boy is currently captivated by Pinky. He told me about how he wished that she is real so that he can meet her. :roll: -
My P2 boy loves books on sci , history and geography. I try and get him to read books from other genres...at times it's been challenging..He loves his Young Scientist and even guide books for P3...hopefully he wont have any problems in sci next yr
Recently, he asked me to get books from this range :
http://www.kidslovetravel.com/travel_mystery_books.htm -
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To name a few
At the moment they are
1. Julia Donaldson
2. Lucy Cousins
3. Richard Scarry
4. Sandra Boynton
5. Eric Carle
6. Dr Suess
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Like tamarind, I started my ger with Ladybird series. The words just repeat n repeat many times. Infact I got so boring with the book. I thot that was very uninteresting.
Little did I know it actually help my daughter into a independent reader. She is able to finish the 1a then 1b and process on to a higher grade. Althot we didnt go thru the book every day or weeks, my ger is able to read some simple book all by herself.
Mummies can really consider investing in the Ladybird series. -
mummytofengkai:
This is a local website? The books are quoted in US or Sin$?My P2 boy loves books on sci , history and geography. I try and get him to read books from other genres...at times it's been challenging..He loves his Young Scientist and even guide books for P3...hopefully he wont have any problems in sci next yr
Recently, he asked me to get books from this range :
http://www.kidslovetravel.com/travel_mystery_books.htm -
my son is p4… this year he switched from geronimo to hardy boys and the ‘choose your own adventure’ series… i decided on hardy boys because i wanted to find out the formula to why it appealed to me last time at his age…
there is a certain type of story-telling for it and i think it is evident in certain types of books only.
now i’m on the look-out for titles that exhibit similar patterns… mystery and adventure seems to be a good starting point. -
mckenzy:
my son is p4... this year he switched from geronimo to hardy boys and the 'choose your own adventure' series... i decided on hardy boys because i wanted to find out the formula to why it appealed to me last time at his age....
I feel http://www.thrillingdetective.com/3invest.html is by far superior to Hardy Boys, which are rather watered down and predicable to me, but it's different strokes for different folks. -
Not too sure why but I was drawn to Alfred Hitchcock's The 3 Investigators more than Hardy Boys. In fact, during my pri sch days, my friends loved Hardy Boys and Bobby Twins, but I didn't find the stories interesting. I preferred Nancy Drew, amongst other Enid Blyton mystery series. Also, I loved C.S. Lewis Lion, Witch and Wardrobe and the subsequent titles. They're just some of my personal preference.
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i think i may know why...
i believe hardy boys talks more on situations and action... things that boys are related-to... whereas The 3 Investigators may deal with more complex issues like character development... Narnia definitely goes into that area... i suppose thats why i devoured books like spy novels, detective series and scifi when i was younger...
i think most boys at that age prefer non-stop action...
last week i tried something different:
http://www.katedicamillo.com/books/tale.html -
Err... I was from an all girls sch so my friends who liked Bobby Twins and Hardy Boys were all girls! ... and they were not tom-boy at all... :?
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