Anonymous
Post 09/17/2025 12:36     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:+1 for Little House series, especially Farmer Boy
Series of Unfortunate Events
Mysterious Benedict Society


We just read Little House in the Big Woods and it is just ok. Just of gross detail about food processing. I could do with put details of how they made head cheese


It can get a little bogged down in the details of various agricultural and food processes, but I think those sections have some value for teaching kids how people lived in the nineteenth century. My kindergartener loves Little House in the Big Woods and we've read it several times now.


My child was pretty horrified that the girls were chasing each other around with the charred pig’s tail and then fighting over who got to chew on it. And then they blew up the pig’s bladder and used it like a balloon, tossing it back and forth.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2025 10:10     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:+1 for Little House series, especially Farmer Boy
Series of Unfortunate Events
Mysterious Benedict Society


We just read Little House in the Big Woods and it is just ok. Just of gross detail about food processing. I could do with put details of how they made head cheese


It can get a little bogged down in the details of various agricultural and food processes, but I think those sections have some value for teaching kids how people lived in the nineteenth century. My kindergartener loves Little House in the Big Woods and we've read it several times now.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2025 23:02     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
Anonymous wrote:+1 for Little House series, especially Farmer Boy
Series of Unfortunate Events
Mysterious Benedict Society


We just read Little House in the Big Woods and it is just ok. Just of gross detail about food processing. I could do with put details of how they made head cheese
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2025 22:43     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
Anonymous wrote:+1 on Humphrey and Mysterious Benedict Society,

also IQ, My Father's Dragon, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Search for Delicious, Catwings, Impossible Creatures, Jumby, The Once and Future King, The Inquistor's Tale, so many more.


^^ Jumbies
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2025 22:42     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
Beverly Cleary is perfect for that age.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2025 22:42     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
+1 on Humphrey and Mysterious Benedict Society,

also IQ, My Father's Dragon, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Search for Delicious, Catwings, Impossible Creatures, Jumby, The Once and Future King, The Inquistor's Tale, so many more.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2025 22:40     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
Anonymous wrote:Half Magic


Was wondering if anyone would bring up Edward Eager books. Your kid would think they're fun, and reread them as a tween and see the darker side
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2025 22:29     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
Anonymous wrote:Frog and Toad


Awesome at any age.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2025 22:23     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
Half Magic
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2025 20:08     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:+1 for Little House series, especially Farmer Boy
Series of Unfortunate Events
Mysterious Benedict Society


Fair warning. Farmer Boy didn't scare me when I was 6, but it scared my son when he was 7-8. It opens with a teacher brandishing a whip because the teens had beat the previous teacher to death.




What...? I seem to remember Strawberry Girl having a similar plot point. What is with all the male one room schoolhouse teachers getting beaten up?
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2025 20:00     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
Anonymous wrote:+1 for Little House series, especially Farmer Boy
Series of Unfortunate Events
Mysterious Benedict Society


Fair warning. Farmer Boy didn't scare me when I was 6, but it scared my son when he was 7-8. It opens with a teacher brandishing a whip because the teens had beat the previous teacher to death.


Anonymous
Post 09/16/2025 19:50     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
Anonymous wrote:D’Aulaires (sp?) Greek and Norse myths


+1
I have great memories of reading these with my dad as a kid.
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2025 19:45     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
+1 for Little House series, especially Farmer Boy
Series of Unfortunate Events
Mysterious Benedict Society
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2025 19:42     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
Maybe Gumluck?
Anonymous
Post 09/16/2025 19:41     Subject: Favorite read aloud books that are well written and fun for parents too
Dory!