Special Edition Stack: Kids Books

My boys have to read thirty minutes a day for school, and our deal with them is they get to choose the book for fifteen minutes and we choose a book for the other fifteen. They don’t know what they don’t know and would read Calvin and Hobbes and Captain Underpants for an eternity if we didn’t kindly force other titles on them. The split keeps it fair and gets them into books they would love but won’t try. Case in point, I made Sam start Superfudge, and he’s so into it. 

I asked my kind followers on Instagram to recommend their favorite kid reads. Here are their top recommendations.

• The Green Ember by S.D. Smith

• The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

• The BFG by Roald Dahl

• Matilda by Roald Dahl

• Wedgie & Gizmo by Suzanne Selfors

• 100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson

• Dandelion Fire by N.D. Wilson

• The Chestnut King by N.D. Wilson

• The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi

• Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen

• Grump by Liesl Shurtliff

• The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies

• Wonder by R. J. Palacio

• Big Nate Series by Lincoln Peirce

• On the Dog (Andrew Lost Series) by J.C. Greenburg

• Wayside School is Falling Down by Louis Sachar

• Holes by Louis Sachar

• The Ramona Collection by Beverly Cleary

• The Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier

• Frindle by Andrew Clements

• The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris

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