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138 adventure books for 8-year-olds
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If your child has just torn through Cressida Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon (and watched the films), you’ll know how great these books are. A scrawny Viking boy called Hiccup, a small naughty dragon, big laughs, and a friendship that turns the runt of the village into the hero of it. So when your […]
Your child has read every Magic Tree House. Here are the books like Magic Tree House I would hand them next, from quick adventures to one step up.
The fondest memories most of us have of reading aren’t of reading. They’re of being read to. For me, it’s the bunk bed. When I was six or seven I got a bunk bed and, even though I could read to myself by then, I still insisted on a bedtime story. So every night my […]
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