I would highly recommend the How to Train Your Dragon series! I’m a former classroom teacher. I taught K-2 SPED and when I was moved to 3-4 SPED I spent a ton of time listening to as many early chapter books as possible so I could better recommend books to my students. I listened to the first book on audiobook and it is the best audiobook I’ve ever listened to. So much so that I ended up listening to the whole series as an adult just for the fun of it. They’re read by Scottish actor David Tennant. The movies are very different with almost no similarities besides character names. Any child I think would enjoy them but particularly boys. I would recommend listening to the audiobook and following along with a physical copy. There are tons of silly illustrations located on every page. Can’t recommend it enough :)
My 6yo son LOVES Zoey and Sassafrass. We're in the middle of the 5th one right now with no sign of stopping before we finish the series. I look forward to finding some more of these to read together.
We use hoopla and Libby (both free library apps) for audiobooks but I just signed up for a free trial of Audible specifically to get the Anne of Green Gables audiobook narrated by Rachel McAdams! We are listening to it every time we are in the car with my 4 and 5 year old and we are LOVING it. The other day I got to have a discussion with my 5 year old (started by him!!) about why Anne didn’t want to go back to school after Gilbert teased her for the first time.
Heartwood Hotel has been such a sweet book! I plan for us to read all 4. I'm mainly focusing on my son is 7 for read alouds but my 4 year old pops in to listen here and there.
Thanks for the ideas! My kids are 7,6, and 3 and they loved the Pippi Longstocking books, the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Series, Charlotte's Web, and we listened to The Little House books on audio- the narrator for the series is wonderful!!
Did you start out saying your kids “can’t even read”? Your oldest are 6&7? This is incredibly encouraging! We hear so many well-meaning moms talk about their children reading young (young!). My oldest is 5 and I was feeling like maybe he should be able to read at least some, but he just isn’t there yet. Sometimes it feels very difficult to determine even a general sense of where “average” is.
Kids take their own time in everything There is no need to worry. My daughter started talking only at the age of 4. I was so worried...cried alot. But believe me..now she speaks fluently ...makes me proud😊😊😊 Same goes with reading or studying. She is very good in some subjects but struggles with other. I don't worry anymore. Because i know she is just waiting to suprise me😉
@@sanaabdulhameed3476 I had to chuckle at your comment. My son didn't talk to age 4 either. I remember how proud I was when he got in trouble for talking too much in school at age 7 LOL
Yep that is what I said! My 7 year old is really close to being independent with his reading - so he is reading just not on his own! As for my 6 year old, she was not interested when she was 5, so we went back to pre-reading activities for another 6 months and I tried again - she was more receptive at 5.5. So that is when we started All about reading level 1 and we are working slowly through it!
Okay I need more info on how you do audiobooks. When/how and what does it look like? My 4 kids (11,9,6,4) are rarely in the same room and never quiet, so I can't wrap my head around how to do audiobooks. We do a lot of read-alouds though, but we are constantly interrupted by one thing or another. Love your book recommendations!
Hi! We use them during quiet time 😀. We either get CDs from the library or use the Libby app from our library. Then I just run the app from an iPad to a Bluetooth speaker … that way they each can take their own book and listen in their rooms!
I just finished reading The Penderwick's first book to my daughter (5 yrs old), she really enjoyed that. My 7 yr old niece has been enjoying The Princess Black series and Isadora Moon Series. Researching for curriculum I stumbled across Greetings from Somewhere Series.
Great literature selections, I sat here writing as you were sharing. Our read alouds for chapter books are being dominated right now by the Magic Treehouse series.
For science/nature, we have loved Among the Pond People (Meadow People, Forest, etc). We read those aloud and then my son listens on audio. Also, the Thorton Burgess stories like Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse or Adventures of Buster Bear, etc. Those are a daily audiobook choice. He also loves the Boxcar Children stories on audio.
Based on your previous recommendations we just finished the wild robot series and my son loved them! Looking forward for these ones you showed us! Thanks so much!!!!
I love your read alouds! My son has recently developed a fascination with the Loch Ness monster, and The Water Horse might be perfect for him right now.
My son has listened to Brave Ollie Possum several times on audio. The author, Ethan Nicolle, does a great job reading. One of our favorite read alouds this year was Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat.
Ooh so glad you mentioned HP! I just got the new illustrated version of the first one, and I was wondering if he was old enough to start. I’ve been anxiously waiting to start the series. 🤣
We are reading Tumtum and Nutmeg, it’s some adventures of a couple of mice. My kids are ages 3/4/6 and the older two love it. I saw it on another persons read aloud list and didn’t see anyone mention it. We got the book with three stories in one.
We’re also reading Harry Potter! We did the minalima version and loved it 😍 my boys are 4 & 6 and I agree about the future scariness 🙈 but I think it was you that said books being scary is easier than movies which totally opened my eyes to introducing things like that through books and it was helpful!
We just finished book 3 with my 7 and 8 year old this past summer and they love it and want to keep going ... but we are still sticking to the one a summer schedule :)
My daughter really liked the Hilde cracks the case series. She really likes mysteries. They are in the scholastic branches line, so a little more simple, but not quite read alone level for us yet. There were some instances of mild bullying by older kids, but overall were really cute and age appropriate. They had 2 sisters working together, which I really liked.
My daughter LOVES the Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins collections on audiobook. I find Ramona a bit bratty, and to be honest she has lost listening privileges because she imitates Ramonas bad behavior, but this series started her absolute love of audiobooks. My second recommendation is the Gooney Bird Green series. The books are good, but the audiobook is AMAZING! So much fun!
Could you share how you do read aloud time with your kiddos? Finally going to start incorporating these non-picture books for my 5 and 6 year olds. Thank you! Really loving your videos..
This was a great video! So many great suggestions. If you don't mind would you elaborate on your preferred audiobook provider. My kids love audiobooks and we use audible but it gets a little pricey since they can go through one book so quickly. Thanks!
Hi! I only get audiobooks from the library with our Libby app … but they have tons of books, benefits or a large city! Haha, I couldn’t afford Audible with how much my kids listen to audiobooks 🤦🏼♀️
Several of these are on my list to read to my kids at some point, like Poppy, The Water Horse, The Tale of Despereaux, Nathanial Fludd, and The Frog Princess. My daughter loves the Zoey and Sassafras books! She has us read them over and over. She has also gotten into listening to audiobooks. She enjoys the Princess in Black audiobooks.
Super helpful! My oldest is almost 5yo and would definitely love some of these suggestions. We are almost done listening to Pinocchio on audiobook (never read as a child) and she has liked it. Even with the older wording. Ha. I have not, because although there are good lessons taught about selflessness, obedience, natural consequences, etc. I do not like the character of Pinocchio. Haha.
Hi Angie, one question, we are going to start with audio books. From where do you listen? I was trying to listen Capyboppy but not success yet. Thank you so much!
I recommend Thornton Burgess Animal Book for Children. It's a collection of stories but incorporates animal facts within the story so the child actually is learning about the animal. It's a classic.
We love Harry Potter!!! I remember wen I was that age and wen my kids where that age we loved Heidi. We love Narnia!!! I bought some Christian princesses books, my daughter loves them. I found them at my local Christian bookstore.
Hi! We use the Libby app through our library! Then we have an old iPhone (that isn’t connected to anything, like it can’t get on the internet) and run the app off of there. But it’s all connected to the same library account, so I can pick books for them and see what they are picking. Hope that makes sense 😊
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I would highly recommend the How to Train Your Dragon series! I’m a former classroom teacher. I taught K-2 SPED and when I was moved to 3-4 SPED I spent a ton of time listening to as many early chapter books as possible so I could better recommend books to my students. I listened to the first book on audiobook and it is the best audiobook I’ve ever listened to. So much so that I ended up listening to the whole series as an adult just for the fun of it. They’re read by Scottish actor David Tennant. The movies are very different with almost no similarities besides character names. Any child I think would enjoy them but particularly boys. I would recommend listening to the audiobook and following along with a physical copy. There are tons of silly illustrations located on every page. Can’t recommend it enough :)
Thank you for the recommendation, that sounds like a series my son would love!!
My 6yo son LOVES Zoey and Sassafrass. We're in the middle of the 5th one right now with no sign of stopping before we finish the series.
I look forward to finding some more of these to read together.
We use hoopla and Libby (both free library apps) for audiobooks but I just signed up for a free trial of Audible specifically to get the Anne of Green Gables audiobook narrated by Rachel McAdams! We are listening to it every time we are in the car with my 4 and 5 year old and we are LOVING it.
The other day I got to have a discussion with my 5 year old (started by him!!) about why Anne didn’t want to go back to school after Gilbert teased her for the first time.
We haven’t jumped into the Anne series yet, I will look for the Rachel McAdams version!
I loved the magic tree house books at that age! You go to lots of different places and learn a lot!
Heartwood Hotel has been such a sweet book! I plan for us to read all 4. I'm mainly focusing on my son is 7 for read alouds but my 4 year old pops in to listen here and there.
Thanks for the ideas! My kids are 7,6, and 3 and they loved the Pippi Longstocking books, the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Series, Charlotte's Web, and we listened to The Little House books on audio- the narrator for the series is wonderful!!
SUCH a great list!!! I need to re-watch and write some down 😉
Did you start out saying your kids “can’t even read”? Your oldest are 6&7? This is incredibly encouraging! We hear so many well-meaning moms talk about their children reading young (young!). My oldest is 5 and I was feeling like maybe he should be able to read at least some, but he just isn’t there yet. Sometimes it feels very difficult to determine even a general sense of where “average” is.
Kids take their own time in everything There is no need to worry. My daughter started talking only at the age of 4. I was so worried...cried alot. But believe me..now she speaks fluently ...makes me proud😊😊😊
Same goes with reading or studying. She is very good in some subjects but struggles with other. I don't worry anymore. Because i know she is just waiting to suprise me😉
@@sanaabdulhameed3476 I had to chuckle at your comment. My son didn't talk to age 4 either. I remember how proud I was when he got in trouble for talking too much in school at age 7 LOL
@@jenniferferguson3 😂😂😂
Yep that is what I said! My 7 year old is really close to being independent with his reading - so he is reading just not on his own! As for my 6 year old, she was not interested when she was 5, so we went back to pre-reading activities for another 6 months and I tried again - she was more receptive at 5.5. So that is when we started All about reading level 1 and we are working slowly through it!
Okay I need more info on how you do audiobooks. When/how and what does it look like? My 4 kids (11,9,6,4) are rarely in the same room and never quiet, so I can't wrap my head around how to do audiobooks. We do a lot of read-alouds though, but we are constantly interrupted by one thing or another.
Love your book recommendations!
We like listening to audiobooks when we are in the car or when we are putting the clothes away.
Hi! We use them during quiet time 😀. We either get CDs from the library or use the Libby app from our library. Then I just run the app from an iPad to a Bluetooth speaker … that way they each can take their own book and listen in their rooms!
I just finished reading The Penderwick's first book to my daughter (5 yrs old), she really enjoyed that. My 7 yr old niece has been enjoying The Princess Black series and Isadora Moon Series. Researching for curriculum I stumbled across Greetings from Somewhere Series.
Great literature selections, I sat here writing as you were sharing. Our read alouds for chapter books are being dominated right now by the Magic Treehouse series.
We have read a far number of Magic Tree House books - can’t wait till they can read them on their own! Haha, not my favorite to read aloud 🤣
Love this list! Thanks for sharing!
For science/nature, we have loved Among the Pond People (Meadow People, Forest, etc). We read those aloud and then my son listens on audio. Also, the Thorton Burgess stories like Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse or Adventures of Buster Bear, etc. Those are a daily audiobook choice. He also loves the Boxcar Children stories on audio.
Based on your previous recommendations we just finished the wild robot series and my son loved them! Looking forward for these ones you showed us! Thanks so much!!!!
So glad you loved The Wild Robot!
I love your read alouds! My son has recently developed a fascination with the Loch Ness monster, and The Water Horse might be perfect for him right now.
My son has listened to Brave Ollie Possum several times on audio. The author, Ethan Nicolle, does a great job reading. One of our favorite read alouds this year was Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat.
Thanks for the recommendations!
Great list!! I’ve added a handful to my wishlist!
You have some great choices here, many of which we have enjoyed as well! There are some we will be adding to our list too, thank you!
This was so fun! Thank you so much for sharing this!
Thank you. This video was very helpful. I had only heard of two of these titles.
Came back to watch a second time as I construct next year's reading list!
I find myself doing that all the time!!
Ooh so glad you mentioned HP! I just got the new illustrated version of the first one, and I was wondering if he was old enough to start. I’ve been anxiously waiting to start the series. 🤣
We started the first one when my son was 6 and daughter 5 … but I probably won’t start with the twins until they are 6!
Thank you for sharing your selection.
We are reading Tumtum and Nutmeg, it’s some adventures of a couple of mice. My kids are ages 3/4/6 and the older two love it. I saw it on another persons read aloud list and didn’t see anyone mention it. We got the book with three stories in one.
We love Tumtum and Nutmeg!
We just finished our first Harry Potter! I also bought the illustrated version.
We’re also reading Harry Potter! We did the minalima version and loved it 😍 my boys are 4 & 6 and I agree about the future scariness 🙈 but I think it was you that said books being scary is easier than movies which totally opened my eyes to introducing things like that through books and it was helpful!
We just finished book 3 with my 7 and 8 year old this past summer and they love it and want to keep going ... but we are still sticking to the one a summer schedule :)
@@sciencemama I love that idea. We’ll see if I can restrain myself 😂 because I agree they won’t be ready if we read them all back to back
My daughter really liked the Hilde cracks the case series. She really likes mysteries. They are in the scholastic branches line, so a little more simple, but not quite read alone level for us yet. There were some instances of mild bullying by older kids, but overall were really cute and age appropriate. They had 2 sisters working together, which I really liked.
Thank you, I will check those out!
My daughter LOVES the Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins collections on audiobook. I find Ramona a bit bratty, and to be honest she has lost listening privileges because she imitates Ramonas bad behavior, but this series started her absolute love of audiobooks. My second recommendation is the Gooney Bird Green series. The books are good, but the audiobook is AMAZING! So much fun!
I need to check out Goony Bird Green!
Could you share how you do read aloud time with your kiddos? Finally going to start incorporating these non-picture books for my 5 and 6 year olds. Thank you! Really loving your videos..
Hi! Start slow, make sure you have snack and something for their hands and then stop when it all seems to be going downhill :)
Thank you!!
This was a great video! So many great suggestions. If you don't mind would you elaborate on your preferred audiobook provider. My kids love audiobooks and we use audible but it gets a little pricey since they can go through one book so quickly. Thanks!
Hi! I only get audiobooks from the library with our Libby app … but they have tons of books, benefits or a large city! Haha, I couldn’t afford Audible with how much my kids listen to audiobooks 🤦🏼♀️
Awesome! I checked our local library system and they do utilize the Libby app for audiobooks. So excited! Thank you again for this! :)
We are reading the illustrated Harry Potter series too, we’ve just finished the second one.
Several of these are on my list to read to my kids at some point, like Poppy, The Water Horse, The Tale of Despereaux, Nathanial Fludd, and The Frog Princess.
My daughter loves the Zoey and Sassafras books! She has us read them over and over.
She has also gotten into listening to audiobooks. She enjoys the Princess in Black audiobooks.
Super helpful! My oldest is almost 5yo and would definitely love some of these suggestions. We are almost done listening to Pinocchio on audiobook (never read as a child) and she has liked it. Even with the older wording. Ha. I have not, because although there are good lessons taught about selflessness, obedience, natural consequences, etc. I do not like the character of Pinocchio. Haha.
I have heard that about Pinocchio!
The Little Riders was my 7 year olds favorite recently. WWII era.
I need to look that up!
Hi Angie, one question, we are going to start with audio books. From where do you listen? I was trying to listen Capyboppy but not success yet. Thank you so much!
We pretty much only use the Libby app through our library ... I have a tough time paying for audiobooks :)
I recommend Thornton Burgess Animal Book for Children. It's a collection of stories but incorporates animal facts within the story so the child actually is learning about the animal. It's a classic.
I really need to check that book out!
We love Harry Potter!!! I remember wen I was that age and wen my kids where that age we loved Heidi. We love Narnia!!! I bought some Christian princesses books, my daughter loves them. I found them at my local Christian bookstore.
What media do you use to play the audiobooks?
We use the Libby app through the library … and play it using a Bluetooth speaker!
How do your kids listen to audio books? I'm trying to avoid buying them but I can't find everything on Libby.
We use Libby, but we live in a big city so I think that helps availability 🤷🏼♀️
How do y’all listen to the audiobooks? I’m looking into a good way to get them for my kids.
Hi! We use the Libby app through our library! Then we have an old iPhone (that isn’t connected to anything, like it can’t get on the internet) and run the app off of there. But it’s all connected to the same library account, so I can pick books for them and see what they are picking. Hope that makes sense 😊
@@sciencemama thank you! That is really helpful!! Love that idea.
Great list, thank you! Did you subscribe for audiobooks
No, I only get audiobooks from the library with our Libby app … but they have tons of books, benefits or a large city!