Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?

6 pointsjopizio8 comments

I was inspired by the other thread I saw today about books for adults. For those with young children, what are you reading to them these days? Any good science and technology books appropriate for age 5 or 6? Or other non-fiction?

I can strongly recommend "Mushrooms and Company" (https://greystonebooks.com/products/mushrooms-and-company). My five year old daughter and I really enjoyed it, and now I'm personally very interested in fungi as a result.

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No kids, but I'm listening to His Dark Materials currently, and would recommend it to every parent. 5 and 6 might be a bit young for it, I would compare it to the third or fourth Harry Potter books in terms of maturity. Got great themes and messages too.

When my kids were that age I read several of the Edge Chronicles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge_Chronicles

My childhood favorite is the Dragonlance Twins trilogy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonlance_Legends

Greek Mythology (PG-3 version), God bless Sir Fry for his books. They are amazing.

Fairy tales I make inspired by some famous tale, but using local geography (mountains, woods, local trees, etc.).

Kid loves both. While early on he was just falling asleep, these days I have to stop because between his excitement and the three million questions the narrative might take 1.5 hours...

Skulduggery Pleasant currently.

Read Harry Potter obviously. And His Dark Materials.

The Narnia books by CS Lewis are very good IMHO. But you might want to wait a year or two.

Give 'Rosie Revere, Engineer' a look

We go to the library a few times a month and pick out new books. Our reading list is always changing. Buying new books is pretty expensive, as we don't read most books repeatedly for more than a week or two.

Frog & Toad series by Arnold Lobel is a favorite.

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