Childrens books

[petes_dragon]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend any good books to read to a three and a half year old boy?

He absolutely hates anything that is too 'baby-ish'.....he is very bright, but I don't want to read anything that will be too advanced for him - I've been through all the normal fairy tales but we're looking for something a bit different - we've just finished The BFG by Roald Dahl which he enjoyed but I think may have been just a little too much!

Any advice appreciated, Thanks
A xXx

[Lore]

Have you thought about Dick King Smith books?

The hodgeheg
Horse pie
The sheep pig
E.S.P
Omnibomulator
The guard dog
Funny Frank
All because of Jackson....

Or you could try Anne Fine... Diary of a killer cat, being one of my favs!

[saxy_jag]

Hairy McLairy from Donaldson's Dairy is good.

Also, anything by Alan Ahlberg.

[morbidstorm]

Hiya,

My three year old boy and four year old boy love:
Bumpus jumpus Dinosaurumpus,
the gruffalo,
afraid of the dark
the really rude rhino

Best bet is to go to your local library, and early learning centre & waterstones have really good kids books in at the moment.

Happy reading!!

[crisgal]

"itsy bitsy house" is really good.
and "burglar bill" by alan ahlberg.
What about some of the shirley hughes stories about little Alfie and Annie Rose? They are lovely stories with fab illustrations. Some of them are quite long and you can get collections of them.
How about some poetry for children?

[mandylew]

my son loved aesops fables at that age, also the series of books called flying foxes www.kidsatrandomhouse.co.uk these are brilliant, making short stories about real life things and historical events, my 3 year old daughter loves them and my son (who is 8 now) will still occasionally dip into one if it covers a subject they are learning at school. Roald dahls revolting rymes are good too, and the enormous crocodile.

[bellbelle]

I think a good one for any kid to read or have read to them is 'A Huge Bag of Worries'.

[luckyeight]

Peter Scarry is great fun and very educational.

[luckyeight]

I fear that I infact meant Richard Scarry. Woops.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Scarry

[FUZZYBEE]

There is a book my daughters loved and it was really helpful too called SHARING A SHELL, really colourful, glittery pictures on every page, and a really nice meaning. Can't remeber who it's by and I have given it local nursery.