It’s Book Week from the 18th-24th August and this year to celebrate I’m going to share some of my recommendations.
Lets start with the younger children. For me you can’t go past
Possum Magic
whether you’re a child or like myself a child at heart and
Guess how much I love you
If it’s primary school aged then Roald Dahl is sure to give you some laughs, whether it’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, George’s Marvelous Medicine, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda, which personally is one of my favourites and many other gobblefunk, whizbanger books.
Speaking of weird words. I’d love to have a competition as to who can make up the weirdest word with the best definition. To start off I’ll start by sharing my weird word… vovered.
Vovered is when you’re covered in a tinkerbell mess. aka. Glitter. I actually discovered it by accident when I made a typo instead of the word covered I wrote vovered.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
or the equivalent for girls is Dork Diaries. Not that you can’t read the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series if you’re a girl. I’ve read the whole series and they’re great!
My pick for young adults is Wonder, especially for my chronic illness followers who all agree we all need to show kindness if we want to make the world a better place.
Wonder is the inspirational story of Auggie Pullman, a boy born with a facial deformity. For those of you who read my previous blog post earlier this year Kids Flix https://coolncreative.wordpress.com/2018/01/ you might know what I’m talking about. And if you’re hungry for more, then there’s Auggie and Me which tells the story from three different perspectives, Christopher, Julian and Charlotte.
And if you’re into Sci-fi (I’ve never personally read Sci-fi), you might want to check out these reviews of Nyxia and Failsafe written by my blogging friend Dannie at Chronicallydannie.
https://chronicallydannie.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/september-october-goodreads-reading-wrap-up-the-finale/ https://chronicallydannie.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/review-failsafe-by-anela-deen/
There are so many more I could list but I don’t have the space to fit all of them but I will definitely write up some more recommendations next year. So what are your favourite reads for both children and adults? I’d love to hear from you. If your children have ever had to dress up as a character for book week, I’d also love to see photos.
Happy Reading!
Coolncreative 
Nice books BUT “Guess how much I love you?” Is my favorite because I read it too my daughter when she was learning to read! Thank you for this post and for the nice memory!
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Wonderful choices! I’ve come across that Guess How Much I Love You? title before because I’ve seen it’s received lots of positive reviews for being such a beautiful book 🙂
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Thank you for the Dork Diaries recommendation! My daughter who is 8 would love those x
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They are a great read! I will have to write up another book review recommendation next year.
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She’ll also enjoy the Ramona and Beezus series. They’re a great read and a lot of the girls around 9 years old seem to like some Treetop Adventures series or something.
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Great! Thanks for the ideas, that gives me plenty to try her with… hopefully one of them will trigger a love of reading!
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Guess how much I love you is such a great book. I will have to get one of those for my cousins new baby, she is the newest addition to our family and her mom is already starting a library for her.
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Thank you for commenting. Guess How Much I Love you was one of my favourites when I was small. Possum Magic is an Australian Book which I also love. Another cute for that age group is e definitely Ten Little Fingers and Ten Tiny toes by Mem Fox and then there’s We’re going on a Bear Hunt which is a fun one to sing along with.
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