What books are your Mini Mustaches enjoying right now?

[ashleyinchs]

My son just turned 2. He loves Mike Austin books, especially Junkyard. I’m a fan of books illustrated by Tim Hopgood, including Singin’ in the Rain, What a Wonderful World, and Fabulous Frogs. We are members of the Imagination Library (free in many areas!) and we get a book each month.

[nessness]

My 5-year-old is mostly into nonfiction books about animals right now. We just got Panda Kindergarten from the library, which is a good one - highly recommended for anyone who likes cute pictures of baby pandas.

My 3-year-old's current favorites are The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Mix it Up, Brown Bear Brown Bear, and Bedtime for Little Bears.

[shelivesthedream]

My 5-year-old is mostly into nonfiction books about animals right now. We just got Panda Kindergarten from the library, which is a good one - highly recommended for anyone who likes cute pictures of baby pandas.

My 3-year-old's current favorites are The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Mix it Up, Brown Bear Brown Bear, and Bedtime for Little Bears.

Your three year old might also like Polar Bear Polar Bear, which is about hearing and offers the opportunity for elaborate animal noises!

[Kmp2]

I almost forgot about this thread. My 7 year old has taken the leap into her own reading world and is devouring early reader chapter books at a rate of 3/day...
I'm desperately trying to keep her overdrive reader stocked but I'm struggling to keep up. I love the ebook rentals from the library, we can check in and out all day long!

She's been reading
Dogman,
Ivy and Bean
Dragon Masters

Up next:
Fancy Clancy - Sleuth
The Notebook of Doom
Wings of Fire
The Hamster Princess
Dragon Breath
Rainbow Magic
and The Princess in Black looked great too!

I knew it would happen eventually, while the quiet is AMAZING, I'm already missing her :)

[gatortator]

My 5-year-old is mostly into nonfiction books about animals right now. We just got Panda Kindergarten from the library, which is a good one - highly recommended for anyone who likes cute pictures of baby pandas.

My 3-year-old's current favorites are The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Mix it Up, Brown Bear Brown Bear, and Bedtime for Little Bears.

For beautiful nonfiction animal books with illustrations similar to Eric Carle,  check out the Steve Jenkins books.  "Actual Size" and "What Do You Do with a Tail Like This" are two of our favorites.

[StarBright]

I almost forgot about this thread. My 7 year old has taken the leap into her own reading world and is devouring early reader chapter books at a rate of 3/day...
I'm desperately trying to keep her overdrive reader stocked but I'm struggling to keep up. I love the ebook rentals from the library, we can check in and out all day long!

She's been reading
Dogman,
Ivy and Bean
Dragon Masters

Up next:
Fancy Clancy - Sleuth
The Notebook of Doom
Wings of Fire
The Hamster Princess
Dragon Breath
Rainbow Magic
and The Princess in Black looked great too!

I knew it would happen eventually, while the quiet is AMAZING, I'm already missing her :)

Eerie Elementary has several books at this point and is from the same publishing series (Scholastic Branches) as Notebook of Doom and Dragon Masters. We're also about to start the Layla and the Bots series with my daughter (6) and my son (8) loves to come back and read branches books in between bigger reads. He has always hated Magic Treehouse but loves the Branches Time Jumpers series.

I think I may have also mentioned this upthread - but my son DEVOURED the I Survived series. There was something about kids surviving disasters that just really appealed to him. 

[mm1970]

I almost forgot about this thread. My 7 year old has taken the leap into her own reading world and is devouring early reader chapter books at a rate of 3/day...
I'm desperately trying to keep her overdrive reader stocked but I'm struggling to keep up. I love the ebook rentals from the library, we can check in and out all day long!

She's been reading
Dogman,
Ivy and Bean
Dragon Masters

Up next:
Fancy Clancy - Sleuth
The Notebook of Doom
Wings of Fire
The Hamster Princess
Dragon Breath
Rainbow Magic
and The Princess in Black looked great too!

I knew it would happen eventually, while the quiet is AMAZING, I'm already missing her :)

Eerie Elementary has several books at this point and is from the same publishing series (Scholastic Branches) as Notebook of Doom and Dragon Masters. We're also about to start the Layla and the Bots series with my daughter (6) and my son (8) loves to come back and read branches books in between bigger reads. He has always hated Magic Treehouse but loves the Branches Time Jumpers series.

I think I may have also mentioned this upthread - but my son DEVOURED the I Survived series. There was something about kids surviving disasters that just really appealed to him.

Ooh, I need to save these to my list.

My 8 yo is reading Harry Potter.  He finished the Percy Jackson books over the summer.  Right now he's on book #5 of Harry Potter.  He's obsessed.  He watched all the movies this summer, at least twice.

[Kmp2]

I almost forgot about this thread. My 7 year old has taken the leap into her own reading world and is devouring early reader chapter books at a rate of 3/day...
I'm desperately trying to keep her overdrive reader stocked but I'm struggling to keep up. I love the ebook rentals from the library, we can check in and out all day long!

She's been reading
Dogman,
Ivy and Bean
Dragon Masters

Up next:
Fancy Clancy - Sleuth
The Notebook of Doom
Wings of Fire
The Hamster Princess
Dragon Breath
Rainbow Magic
and The Princess in Black looked great too!

I knew it would happen eventually, while the quiet is AMAZING, I'm already missing her :)

Eerie Elementary has several books at this point and is from the same publishing series (Scholastic Branches) as Notebook of Doom and Dragon Masters. We're also about to start the Layla and the Bots series with my daughter (6) and my son (8) loves to come back and read branches books in between bigger reads. He has always hated Magic Treehouse but loves the Branches Time Jumpers series.

I think I may have also mentioned this upthread - but my son DEVOURED the I Survived series. There was something about kids surviving disasters that just really appealed to him.

Ooh, I need to save these to my list.

My 8 yo is reading Harry Potter.  He finished the Percy Jackson books over the summer.  Right now he's on book #5 of Harry Potter.  He's obsessed.  He watched all the movies this summer, at least twice.

Will definitely check out the I survived, layla and bots, and branches time jumpers series! Thanks!

And @mm1970  you should check out this reading list: https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=12247
They looked very cool - but slightly too advanced for my newer reader - and I even want to read some too!

As an aside - I was looking at these series to see if I could borrow them in French - I'm a little out of practice so an adult novel is intimidating - but these early readers might be perfect!

[StarBright]

I find it hard to find books for StarKid that fall between Branches Books and Harry Potter/Percy Jacksons of the world.

He loves the longer books and reads them decently, but needs to take breaks from them, just from sheer length. It seems wild to go from hundred page books to 400 pagers (with small print).

I remember there being more, shorter books at that age (Lois Lowery, Judy Bloom, Louis Sachar) - and while I pull those books for my kid, I'd love to find more current titles for him.

mm1970 - I'd recommend The Westing Game if your kiddo hasn't read it yet (such a great mystery - it is the book I buy for all my cousins and cousins' kiddos when they hit 3rd/4th grade and everyone has always loved it!).

[gatortator]

Grade 3/4 is tricky for books, I agree.

For my oldest (girl),  it was slightly easier.  At the age, she latched onto series which reinvented fairy tales-- Land of Stories, Ella Enchanted and others by Gail Carson Levine. 

My younger (boy) is trickier.  Harry Potter is a little too scary (he stopped halfway through book 2).  So far Quinny and Hopper (a series of 3 books),  Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and Dog Diaries series (by James Patterson -- I was surprised that he wrote middle grade books.) all get thumbs up from him.  The One and Only Ivan also gets a thumbs up as do Wings of Fire books.  I Survived books and Judy Bloom books all got thumbs down.

[TheFrenchCat]

Grade 3/4 is tricky for books, I agree.

For my oldest (girl),  it was slightly easier.  At the age, she latched onto series which reinvented fairy tales-- Land of Stories, Ella Enchanted and others by Gail Carson Levine. 

My younger (boy) is trickier.  Harry Potter is a little too scary (he stopped halfway through book 2).  So far Quinny and Hopper (a series of 3 books),  Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and Dog Diaries series (by James Patterson -- I was surprised that he wrote middle grade books.) all get thumbs up from him.  The One and Only Ivan also gets a thumbs up as do Wings of Fire books.  I Survived books and Judy Bloom books all got thumbs down.

I love Gail Carson Levine.  I read Ella Enchanted so many times my paperback fell apart.  I can't wait till my daughter's old enough to read it herself.  Or maybe I should read it out loud to her.  She's five, I don't think she'd be too scared.

[gatortator]

Book Riot has a great list for 3rd/4th grade I just found out.  I went through it with my fourth grade and he excitedly wrote down lots of titles he wants to read.

https://bookriot.com/books-for-4th-graders/
https://bookriot.com/books-for-3rd-graders/


I also went through the equivalent list with my 6th grader and she was excited as well.  She also read a list at imaginationsoup and found more titles there.

https://bookriot.com/books-for-6th-graders/
https://imaginationsoup.net/best-books-11-year-olds/

[Hula Hoop]

My almost 9 year old has just discovered reading. So far she's read:

Pippi Longstocking
Ramona the Brave
Eloise in Moscow

[Sanitary Stache]

Great thread! I'll be back for ideas some day.

We are on the 4th book of the Little House on the Prairie series, reading one chapter at a time to all three 1.5, 3, 4.5.  Only the 4 year old listens and remembers what happens, and is awake when the chapter is over.

They bring me "daddies favorites"  "Ox-Cart Man" by Donald Hall with illustrations from the Miss Rumphius author and "William's Doll" about a boy who wants to practice being a father and "Knots on a Counting Rope" about a blind Native American boy who learns to ride a horse.

Their favorites are usually PJ Library books about Hannukah.