Encouraging your child's reading

Do you need to get your child into reading?

• Try non-fiction books and look for subjects your child is interested in.
• Try the Sophisticated Picture book collection. This include puzzle books, comics and graphic novels.
• The Children’s Fiction Series bin has series books, including the Rainbow fairies, Beast Quest, Magic Animal Friends, Sea Quest, Gladiator Boy and Animal Ark.
• You can also try reading your child a book that you read when you were younger – your enthusiasm for the story might encourage them to read more of the same.
• Classic stories are another way to introduce your child to reading.

Here are some fiction stories (Chapter books) that might help encourage your child into reading:

• Around the World In Eighty Days by Geronimo Stilton  
• Ballet School by Poppy Rose
• Calums’ Hard Knock by Danny Scott
• Dirty Bertie: Dinosaur by Alan MacDonald
• Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
• The Fox and the Ghost King by Michael Morpurgo
• Grandpa Was an Astronaut by Jonathon Meres
• Jack Beechwhistle: Attack of the Giant Slugs by Kes Grey
• The Lion Roars by Alan Gibbons
• Luke by James Valentine
• Lucy and the Merman by Franki Wood
• Pool Panic by Jake Maddox
• Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Unpleasant Penguins from Pluto by Dav Pilkey
• The Snow Globe by Jean Ure
• Tashi and the Phoenix by Anna Fienberg
• The Truth About My Unbelievable Summer by David Cole

Or you can try books written by these popular authors:

• Judy Blume
• Enid Blyton
• Eion Colfer
• Roald Dahl
• Terry Denton
• Morris Gleitzman
• Bear Grylls
• Louise Guy
• Anthony Horowitz
• Paul Jennings
• Karen McCombie
• Michael Morpurgo
• James Riordon
• Geronimo Stilton
• Jean Ure
• Holly Webb
• Jacqueline Wilson