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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two boys 5 and 7 and I have tried practically every book on this list....The only real home run hits have been Dr. Seuss (read one of his pretty much every night), the Gingerbread Man, and the Peanuts treasury which my son likes to read with a night light in bed. I thought Roald Dahl would be perfect but they can take or leave him. Anything to get away from Dog Man...but I'm afraid my kids just aren't bookworms the way I was, since my husband wasn't one either.[/quote]

Don’t give up on them yet. There’s a lot of range between Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl. You’ve had some hits, so they are bookworms. You just need to find the books they want to get excited about. It sounds like they may still want lighter books, which is great.

Bookworms can love picture books too. You might try books by Jez Alborough like Fix-It Duck, Laura Numeroff like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Amelia Bedelia, Mark Teague’s LaRue books, Doug Cushman’s Seymour Sleuth, Jon Sciezska’s series of fairy tale adaptations, Magic School Bus picture books

In fact, you might want to do some that have minimal text, like No, David by David Shannon or 10 minutes till Bedtime by Peggy Rathmann.  The I Spy books by Walter Wick and Jean Marzollo are great. C-D-B (See the Bee) is fun to read, Where’s Waldo, etc.

Where the Sidewalk Ends has fun, quirky poetry, so it’s easy to do in small chunks

For longer books, you might try:
Flat Stanley
Boxcar Children
Secrets of Droon
Time Warp Trio
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Beverly Cleary
Frindle
Wayside School series by Louis Sachar

You might try reading to them while they play or eat. Storytime doesn’t have to be formal.  Build on whatever they like. 
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