Best literature books for children according to redditors

I was being funny. The network didn't go live until 2009.

This is from Goosebumps: Haunted Halloween Movie Novel. It was published this year. Actually published like two weeks ago, August 28th.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DR9K7X6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

The Passage

Kids books will be out in August. They might be slightly old for him, but links:

The Paladin's Handbook https://smile.amazon.com/Paladins-Handbook-Official-Guidebook-Legendary/dp/1534409033/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493091975&sr=8-1&keywords=voltron+simon+spotlight

Battle for the Black Lion (comes with temporary tattoos): https://smile.amazon.com/Battle-Black-Voltron-Legendary-Defender/dp/153440922X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1493091975&sr=8-2&keywords=voltron+simon+spotlight

The Rise of Voltron (temp tattoos): https://smile.amazon.com/Rise-Voltron-Legendary-Defender/dp/153440919X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1493091975&sr=8-3&keywords=voltron+simon+spotlight

Comic book links: https://smile.amazon.com/Voltron-Legendary-Defender-TP-Vol/dp/1941302211/ref=pd_sbs_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1941302211&pd_rd_r=YZRKSPMFZSF8JE0ZPKWK&pd_rd_w=YM5S0&pd_rd_wg=03IwW&psc=1&refRID=YZRKSPMFZSF8JE0ZPKWK

They still make new ones, she is a child now.

You're in luck!!!!!

(I am scared.)

According to Amazon.com this releases on May 30, 2017 - three days before the film opens in the US. So if you absolutely positively have to know the story as soon as possible, then you have this.

They're on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Sideways-Stories-Wayside-School-Sachar/dp/0380731487

Sideways Stories at Wayside School
...i think i read those when i was 9-10.
SO GOOD.

Time Warp Trio?

https://smile.amazon.com/Its-Greek-Time-Warp-Trio/dp/0142401161?sa-no-redirect=1

Aliens for Breakfast?

http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Breakfast-Stepping-Stone-Book/dp/0394820932/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418659270&sr=8-1&keywords=aliens+for+breakfast

Seven Chinese Brothers is an all time classic. I bought it for my girls. Younger but fun.

Sideways Stories from Wayside School used to be pretty short, but I think someone's turned it into a series now? Still super fun.

Miss Nelson is Missing is another classic. Bought this again for my kids too.

For slightly older, The Three Investigators was my go-to. Read everything a few times. Chapter book.

The Boxcar Children is another neat series of mysteries I loved as a young boy. Chapters also, IIRC.

Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Man, I forgot how much I loved that...

Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Yeah there were a few of them. https://www.amazon.com/Its-Greek-Time-Warp-Trio/dp/0142401161

Hey, thanks for the interest.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1520156499 ... also available on kindle, and if you purchase the book, you get the kindle version for free

The Mad Scientist Club

I believe it was this book.

It also had a bit where they tried to prevent the students from bumping into each other by telling everyone to walk on the right hand side going up the stairs and the left hand side going down...

The Three and Many Wishes of Jason Reid?

There are some really great WW books for young readers. My daughter and I read all the ones by Nina Jaffe, and some of the others.

The Contest
www.amazon.com/dp/0060565187

The Rain Forest
www.amazon.com/dp/0060565209

The Arrival
www.amazon.com/dp/0060565195

I Am Wonder Woman
www.amazon.com/dp/0060565179

Amazon Princess
www.amazon.com/dp/0060565225

The Journey Begins
www.amazon.com/dp/0060565217

Sword of the Dragon
www.amazon.com/dp/143422760X

Rumble in the Rainforest
www.amazon.com/dp/1434227650

The Fruit of All Evil
www.amazon.com/dp/1434227669

Wonder Woman: An Origin Story
www.amazon.com/dp/1434297330

Dr. Psycho's Circus of Crime
www.amazon.com/dp/1434227618

Attack of the Cheetah
www.amazon.com/dp/1434222543

I Am Wonder Woman
www.amazon.com/dp/0061885177

Creature of Chaos
www.amazon.com/dp/1406216348

Monster Magic
www.amazon.com/dp/1434222608

Cheetah and the Purrfect Crime
www.amazon.com/dp/1434239004

Trial of the Amazons
www.amazon.com/dp/1434222632

You're probably thinking about "Aliens for Breakfast!"

Without giving too much away about the plot of one of my childhood favorites (with the second cover art, not the gross new one that's on it), bleeding from the fingers and toes and wearing lots of bandaids is definitely a specific plotpoint of the story.

The Lemonade Trick was a favorite, as well as WTWTA!
Also:

The Mad Scientists' Club

I read it and reread it a million times. My mom sold my books in a garage sale but years later I found that and other books on Amazon and also a very cool publishing company:

Purple House Press

How about Holes, or maybe Sideways Stories from Wayside School, both by Louis Sachar. I think Holes would be a fun read.

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I just had a wave of nostalgia

Happy birthday!! I like XTC. Midori, Blue Curacao, Bacardi, pineapple juice & lemonade. NOM NOM NOM. We usually make it up in jugs, so I guess doing a shot of each alcohol and then to taste with the juice and lemonade (and by lemonade, I mean a Sprite-like drink, not American lemonade). Bottoms up!

This video never fails to amuse.

I would like this for my daughter.

I second the Tamora Pierce suggestion. Also definitely Gregor the Overlander! Suzanne Collin's lesser known series (she wrote Hunger Games). I recently finished reading (it's a 5-book series) and it was FANTASTIC. Just amazing. It's a YA series. The House of the Scorpion is also great, might be for your stronger readers. Eragon series is fun, and Dealing with Dragons is still one of my all-time favorite dragon books/series. Bruce Coville is a great author, and his work might be a little young but it's good to have a mix. I absolutely loved everything of his I have read, but especially Aliens Ate My Homework and the rest of that series. Most of these will appeal to the young men, hopefully.



When I was a young lady, I read pretty much anything, but I know a lot of boys like books with a boy main character. I really was a bit horse crazy, so here's some you might look into for your young ladies. The Saddle Club is a very long series about 3 girls and their horse-y adventures. It was really fun and it's great to find longer series because, if they like the first one, there's a lot to enjoy. (Oh a thought - you could always get the first one in a series, then just tell them to get the rest from the library or something, if there's budget concerns) I also liked the Thoroughbred Series and the wonderful Marguerite Henry horse books, especially the famous Misty of Chincoteague but really any of her books is a good read. My all time favorite horse series was and still is The Black Stallion by Walter Farley. Oh, how I loved that book.


There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom was fantastic the first time I read it, and I also like the "Wayside School" books which are both by Louis Sachar. Judy Blume is fun as is Beverly Cleary. Redwall gets a lot of kids into reading, you also might consider some high-level comics/graphic novels to reach a different audience. The Hobbit Graphic Novel has great illustration and I loved reading it so much when I found it one day in a store.


I found history pretty boring so avoided those books but I did enjoy The King's Swift Rider about Robert the Bruce and Scotland, might be the only vaguely historical book I remember reading around those ages. I tried to avoid mystery books more or less, but I loved Encyclopedia Brown (even though according to Amazon it's for younger ages). I enjoyed Harriet the Spy she was a pretty cool girl role-model at the time. My Side of the Mountain was absolutely fantastic and such a great adventure, though I enjoy everything Jean Craigshead George writes. I feel like Julie of the Wolves is pretty standard reading material, maybe not anymore, but what a great story. Oh my gosh, I just about forgot The Indian in the Cupboard, that was such a good story. Anything Roald Dahl is wonderful as is Jane Yolen, I especially recommend the Pit Dragon trilogy. The Golden Compass, So You Want to be A Wizard, Animorphs, Goosebumps, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Kiki Strike, Dinotopia, Song of the Gargoyle and The City of Ember.


I am sure that is way more than you need, but my mind started racing. It was hard to stop once I started -- thank you for that enjoyable tour through my past. Lots of great memories of time spent reading. Hope you find some of this helpful, at least.

Aliens for Breakfast? Based off a kids book. Unfortunately, the movie is damn near impossible to find.

http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Breakfast-Stepping-Stone-Book/dp/0394820932/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418659270&sr=8-1&keywords=aliens+for+breakfast

Books! Kids should start reading at a young age. Young readers are forever readers. You can get them books related to their interests or something different. I love the How to Train Your Dragon series and The Guardians. There are many different books for young kids that are great!

For the first one, it could be Bartlett and the City of Flames or perhaps The Lake at End of the World? And the second one might be The Magic Hare?

It's not this one, is it?

The Case of the Poisoned Pig (Milo & Jazz Mysteries)

>When Jazz's pet piglet gets sick and the veterinarian suspects it was
>poisoned, she and Milo use their detective skills to try to figure out who did
>it.

Sorry about that!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07JXYKJ18/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1541085127&sr=8-1

Muh childhood

Fun with Dick and Jane is the first book I remember reading.

First kid book with no pictures probably "The Mad Scientist Club" or one of Roy Chapman Andrews' dinosaur books.

First adult book: The Godfather. My mom let me read it when I was about 13.

Green eggs and ham. Oh how many times have we read that book here? Millions? Surely. I think your daughter (aged 1) might love any of the Margaret Wise Brown books. Our personal favorite was Big Red Barn. Because children's books are my absolute passion though, I'm going to throw out a couple more. If your daughter loves to look at faces (mine did) - I loved this book, Global Babies. It's a picture board book and the photography is stunning. My daughter also loved Touch and Feel books, have you guys tried those? And if she likes bright colors, my daughter loved Planting a Rainbow.

Can I throw out a few for later? Just because I love these books so much. A lesser known book that came to me by chance and became my favorite thing ever is Open Me, I'm a Dog by Art Spiegelman. Also, make sure that you get Janell Cannon's books, Verdi and Stellaluna as she gets older, especially if she is an animal lover. Stellaluna can be scary though, or at least it was for my daughter, so in a few years might be best. OH and we love the Alexander books.

My son is a wee bit obsessed with the Lego Movie, which is odd since we still haven't seen it. But he's wanting to read this novel about it for $4.61.

Mostly though, I wanted to talk about books. And kids. Because I love them both very much. Thanks for a great contest!

This reminds me of reading this book as a kid, which has a story in it about the fabled 13th floor and how it was full of all sorts of awful and nasty things (I don't remember exact details, it's been well over 10 years since I read it)

I really liked The Monster at the End of this Book, The Poky Little Puppy, Persnickety, Corduroy, Where the Wild Things Are, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, The Rainbow Fish, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man, Miss Nelson is Missing, Go Away Big Green Monster, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Stone Soup, Frog and Toad, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, and, of course, every Dr. Seuss book.