{"id":10249,"date":"2026-05-13T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readingmate.co.uk\/littlereads\/?post_type=lr_article&p=10249"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:44:03","slug":"rainy-day-books-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"lr_article","link":"https:\/\/readingmate.co.uk\/littlereads\/articles\/rainy-day-books-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"What to read on a rainy weekend afternoon\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So i’m one of those people who really<\/em> enjoys a rainy day. And i also relish the autumn \/ winter months. I think because i love the lack of expectation to ‘do things’. But i’m also a cold weather gorrrrl (don’t come for me).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this is my pick of books for a rainy day, for kids who want to disappear into another world for an afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, nothing beats nestling under a blanket. Low lighting, a bowl of one-handed snacks, a hot drink. A book on the go. The rain doing its thing outside. I mean, does it get better than that? If you think so, we can’t be friends (joking, but the bar is set).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A rainy weekend = long, uninterrupted stretches of time. The kind of book that asks for your full attention. Not the five-minute-bursts-on-the-school-run kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These afternoons are rare. No deadline. Your child can disappear for three hours and reappear sticky-fingered and slightly dazed because they were somewhere else the whole time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book needs to be chunky enough to last. Or have enough sequels in our fantasy library to keep them going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s the kind of weekend where you get to Sunday evening and think, “could we have a weekend to get over the weekend?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to look for<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Books that work here are full of world-building. Now that doesn’t have to be fantasy (though fantasy does it really well).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It could be a bustling Paris, a Victorian boarding school, a dripping Amazon rainforest. Somewhere that feels miles from your living room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pace matters too. Short, sharp chapters won’t cut it. You want something that builds and lets the characters and plot ease themselves out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chunky or serial. Either a doorstopper, or a book with at least three more in the library so your little one won’t run out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s nothing worse than being deep in a reading hole and running out of material. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Although most bookworms keep a fairly weighty TBR pile for exactly this reason.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six books for a rainy day your kids won’t want to put down<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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The Bad Beginning (Lemony Snicket). Your atmospheric pick.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: The bad beginning<\/p>

Lemony Snicket<\/span><\/span>Age 10<\/span><\/span>Mystery<\/span><\/div><\/div>›<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n\n

These books have been around since I was in school (for a reason). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve not met the series before, the setup is grim. Three Baudelaire children lose their parents in a house fire and get packed off to live with a long-lost relative called Count Olaf. He turns out to be a theatrical villain after their inheritance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The narrator, Lemony Snicket<\/a> himself, spends the entire book warning you to put it down because things will only get worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That voice IS the weather. Dry, slightly doomed, oddly comforting. Snicket really does lean into the gloom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What stops it from being too heavy is the humour. Klaus is the bookworm. Violet invents things from any old scraps. Baby Sunny mostly bites. The three of them outwitting Olaf is genuinely funny, even when the situation isn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The big draw is the length of the series. 13 books. Once your little one is hooked, they’re set for weeks. There’s the film and the Netflix series for after, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevermoor \u2014 The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Jessica Townsend). The immersive fantasy pick.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Nevermoor – The Trials of Morrigan Crow<\/p>

Jessica Townsend<\/span><\/span>Age 9<\/span><\/span>Magic<\/span><\/div><\/div>›<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n\n

This one’s all about world-building. Dense, layered, slightly Hogwarts-shaped but absolutely its own thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morrigan Crow is a “cursed child”, which in her world means she’s blamed for every bit of bad luck in town. Worse, she’s set to die at midnight on her 11th birthday. (I know.) But minutes before her time runs out, a man called Jupiter North whisks her away to a hidden city called Nevermoor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To stay there, she has to win a place in the Wundrous Society by passing four trials. Cue strange examiners, a giant talking cat called Fenestra, and an actual umbrella-rail transport system you can ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Townsend’s gift is texture. The streets, the rules of how magic works, the slightly bonkers Hotel Deucalion where Morrigan ends up living. The kind of place your little one will lose track of time inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If they love it, Wundersmith<\/a> and Hollowpox are waiting. Three books deep before they need anything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Joan Aiken). The classic atmospheric pick.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Picture the scene: snow-covered English countryside, wolves circling the house, two girls against a wicked governess. The weather inside the book quite literally matches the weather outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cousins Bonnie and Sylvia are left alone at Willoughby Chase while Bonnie’s parents go on a sea voyage. Their guardian is a distant relative called Miss Slighcarp. She turns out to be a fraud and packs the girls off to a freezing workhouse-style school. They escape into a frozen landscape full of wolves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(The book is set in an alternate-history Britain where wolves came back through the Channel Tunnel, which is brilliant on its own.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s old-fashioned in the best way. The kind of book a grandparent will recognise and want to read with them. Reads aloud beautifully if your weekend lands on a bedtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rooftoppers (Katherine Rundell). The sweeping adventure pick.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Rooftoppers<\/p>

Katherine Rundell<\/span><\/span>Age 9<\/span><\/span>Adventure<\/span><\/div><\/div>›<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n\n

A baby is found floating in a cello case after a Channel shipwreck. Wait for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That baby grows up to be Sophie, raised in a London flat by an \u2018out-there\u2019 scholar called Charles Maxim. He lets her read books on the kitchen floor, eat with her fingers, and wear his old shirts as dresses. (Honestly, dream parenting.) When the authorities decide she’s better off in an orphanage, the two of them flee to Paris on a hunch. Sophie thinks her mother survived the shipwreck too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From there it gets magical. Sophie climbs out onto the rooftops and discovers a whole society of children who live up there. Pigeons, chimney-pots, gendarmes below. It reads like being told a story by a slightly naughty storyteller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short enough to finish in an afternoon. Rich enough that you feel like you’ve actually been to Paris when you close it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rundell<\/a> has plenty more too. The Explorer, The Wolf Wilder, and Impossible Creatures all wait next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journey to the River Sea (Eva Ibbotson). The historical adventure pick.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Journey to the River Sea<\/p>

Eva Ibbotson<\/span><\/span>Age 9<\/span><\/span>Adventure<\/span><\/div><\/div>›<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n\n

Set in 1910. Maia, an orphaned schoolgirl in London, is sent up the Amazon to live with relatives she’s never met. They turn out to be appalling. They keep their bungalow disinfected, their windows shut, and their backs turned to the rainforest pressing in on every side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maia, of course, loves the rainforest. She befriends a boy called Finn (who has his own complicated story going on), gets swept into a travelling opera company, and starts uncovering something about who Finn really is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ibbotson writes the Amazon brilliantly. The heat. The Manaus opera house. The smell of the river. The clinking of glasses at riverside parties. Genuinely transporting in the way only a really good historical novel can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chunky enough to fill a wet afternoon but never slow. If your little one gets stuck in, The Dragonfly Pool,<\/a> The Secret of Platform 13 and Dial a Ghost are waiting next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coraline (Neil Gaiman<\/a>). The properly atmospheric pick. (Flag age suitability.)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Coraline<\/p>

Dave McKean<\/span><\/span>Age 10<\/span><\/span>Scary<\/span><\/div><\/div>›<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n\n

One for slightly older readers. A nervous 9-year-old probably isn’t ready. A confident 10-year-old will love it. (You know your child.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coraline Jones moves into a new flat and finds a small door in the drawing room. Usually it leads to a brick wall. One day it doesn’t. On the other side is a parallel version of her flat, with her “Other Mother” and “Other Father” waiting for her. They look almost normal, except their eyes are black buttons sewn into their faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Other Mother wants Coraline to stay. Forever. With buttons sewn over her eyes too. (Told you.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s short, it’s creepy in the best way, and it absolutely belongs on a grey afternoon when you want something that stays with your little one afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honourable mentions\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For younger readers or a more classic feel, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)<\/strong> is a great call. Your little one can settle in for the long haul with the full Narnia series to follow.. And let’s face it, that opening (wardrobe to snow to lamppost) is properly atmospheric. Sorry, used the word again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your child loves Secret Garden energy, A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett)<\/strong> is a lovely pick. Same warmth, similar boarding-school cosiness, a different shape of story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For older readers (11+), Five Children and It (E. Nesbit)<\/strong> is the one. Wishes that go wrong in surprising ways. It suits a confident reader who likes something that feels more grown-up and old-fashioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make it an event<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Whether your little one wants to brood with Snicket or climb onto the Paris rooftops with Sophie, there’s something here for the kind of afternoon you don’t want to end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hardest part of the day shouldn’t be finding the next book. (It should be deciding which snacks go in the bowl.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try 3,000+ hand-picked books<\/strong> on Little Reads, including every single one of these. \u00a37.99 a month after a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your child is still finding their feet with reading, this isn’t quite your app. There are better-suited options out there with phonics tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But for a bookworm parent and a bookworm little one on a rainy Sunday? Get the kettle on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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