What are your kids reading?

[pluckyduck]

We just finished the fourth Harry Potter book.

Now:

A Wrinkle in Time

Andrea
shamelessly stealing a thread idea from another forum

[amykhar]

Kareem loved A Wrinkle in Time, and went on to read more from the author. He is now reading The Hobbit, and Toxin by Robin Cook.

Sarah reads too fast for me to keep up. The little ones seem to be stuck on One Fish, Two Fish right now.

Amy

[theeye]

Originally posted by amykhar
The little ones seem to be stuck on One Fish, Two Fish right now.

Yours, too, huh? It's all we're allowed to read to our (21 month old) son. Try to read something else and he'll pull the book out of your hands and replace it with the one and only.

[Grouch]

My 13-year-old daughter just finished Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness. She absolutely loved it--cried at the end, she admitted. She even managed to beat my DRI (Daily Reading Intake). She had a DRI of 35 pages.

[erik_kosberg]

Nate’s recently been very interested in military history. He just finished one about Gettysburg and another about ironclads in the Civil War; today he got two from his school library, one an overview of WW2, the other about D-Day. Not bad for an 8-year-old.

His most recent fiction book was Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet.

[jenninca]

Man, I wish my "kids" would read like your kids. They're supposed to read 20 minutes a night. I check their reading logs every day, and it takes most of them about two weeks to finish a pulp kid-fiction book like a Babysitter's Club book. I hate that I have to make them read at home, but 90% of them wouldn't read at all if I didn't (and 20% of them still don't on a regular basis, even though they get in trouble each day that they don't).

Cindy
the frustrated book-lover

[pluckyduck]

Well, I wish my kids read more independently.

I had a serious problem, about a year ago, when I realized that they just weren't picking a book up and reading on their own. Books were my lifeblood when I was a kid, and here I was, raising children who weren't reading real books (not Dr. Seuss) regularly on their own. Took me a little while to notice because they had, for the most part, just started being able read real books.

Disclaimer: I don't mean to dis the good Dr. by saying that his books don't count. They just weren't much of a stretch, and the plot is a little thin.

I discovered that leaving books out on the coffee table, rather than put away in their bookcase helped. I do wish they would push themselves more, though. They read, but they don't sit down for an hour or two and just read, and that's hard for me to fathom.

Andrea

[sylvanb]

Well, my older kid is reading something on international negotiation, and my younger kid is reading something on restoring old houses.

Oh, wait, you meant children.

[Redlass]

We've been reading a lot of "Thomas the Tank Engine." We bought the big hard cover that has the complete works of Rev. Audrey in it and we've been reading one or two stories a night.

My son has also entered a phase where he won't go to bed unless he has at least ten books piled up next to him so that he can look at the pictures with either his nightlight or the Bear in the Big Blue House flashlight. What can his dad or I say? We've already determined we weren't going to do the "do as I say not as I do" routine, so instead, we let the poor child ruin his eyes. For about a week, we were leaving his room light on until he fell asleep, but then he started getting up to play.

[conradd]

Shane's high school just instituted a DEAR (drop everything and read) program - it's been in the elementary grades for years but the high schools haven't had time until now. For the last 15 minutes of first period before the morning break, everyone - students, staff, principals, custodians - stop whatever they're doing and read for a quarter-hour.



It's reawakened his love of reading. At first he thought it was a waste of time, but our last trip to Costco included the purchase of Under Fire by W.E.B. Griffin in hardcover and a paperback copy of Black Hawk Down. It's so nice to see him reading something besides Sports Illustrated and Snowboarding.

Deb

[ms_n]

My eldest, 13 on Sunday, is reading The Last of the Mohicans , the next one is busy outdoing me in Lemony Snicket books along with something she checked out from her school library, the youngest is starting to understand that reading a whole book is better than just reading a few pages and then skipping to another book - she is reading Little House in the Big Woods. My forever-cast-in-stone-as-a-baby-cuz-she's-the-last-one likes Cookie Monster, Clifford, and...Barbie.

[mtbat]

My daughter just started one of the Magic Tree House books-she wants to read this one by herself-and so far so good!

Fridai