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[An-Det]

My nephew has been reading my old Goosebumps books and my sister bought our nieces the Hunger Games books for Xmas. Not sure how representative that is for their age group though.

 

[JDSN]

They arent!

Just kidding, I just wanted to sound bitter and out of touch.

 

[Allforce]

My daughter was reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter this summer. She's 11. She read Jurassic Park too on my recommendation (and I put it on her Kindle) and she told me they say "fuck" alot in it haha.

She's into the Wimpy Kid books still, I even read those as they're fucking hilarious. She reads some series where some girls are like "Sisters Grimm" and solve fairy tale crimes in some modern day town where those characters have taken up residence.

 

[Smellycat]

 

[Kud Dukan]

Kids are (as a whole) reading plenty today, probably more than ever. Frankly, I don't think there has ever been a time when kids has as many choices as they do now when it comes to picking something to read. I was in a bookstore this week and was blown away by how large the Young Adults and Kids sections have become. I wish it had been like that when I was a kid.

 

[Anticitizen One]

Is R.L.Stine still in business?

 

[subversus]

Ain't no one reading books anymore.

all people I know who don't read books say this. Cool story bro

 

[x Power Pad Death Stomp x]

My daughter is 10 and she's all about Percy Jackson right now. She's reading the Hobbit before the movie comes out and seems to reread all of Harry Potter every 6 months.

She's really into graphic novels like Bone and is also reading the new retranslated Sailor Moon manga.

I don't know how she reads 2 or 3 books at once but I always talk to her about them and she has full comprehension of what she's reading. She also thinks Twilight is stupid, so score one for the good guys.

 

[Enduin]

I've read like 6 books my whole life and most of them were for class. Ain't no one reading books anymore.

I think someone is looking to take up Plywood's old tag.

Spoiler

Read a book motherfucker.

On topic. This topic is making me look back and fondly remember reading the Redwall series. Brian Jacques wrote a shit ton of books and I stopped reading them in like 2000.

 

[subversus]

I don't know how she reads 2 or 3 books at once but I always talk to her about them and she has full comprehension of what she's reading. She also thinks Twilight is stupid, so score one for the good guys.

I still do this. I remember every plot strand for like 6 months even if I dropped the book.

 

[Allforce]

Same here, I always have a couple books going.

Is there a good book thread on GAF for recommendations?

 

[Neffarias_Bredd]

Whoaa Seventh Tower series name drop...just brought back so many memories.

 

[x Power Pad Death Stomp x]

I still do this. I remember every plot strand for like 6 months even if I dropped the book.

My wife and I are the complete opposite, so it seems strange and confusing to us. But, we're more than happy to keep providing books.

 

[Cat Party]

My 7 year old girl is into Magic School Bus right now.

 

[Sielys]

Same here, I always have a couple books going.

Is there a good book thread on GAF for recommendations?

There's this a monthly thread, which you can pull books from.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497995

 

[3N16MA]

Whatever they're reading it's sure to be turned into a film franchise and make loads of money.

 

[Kwixotik]

The Hunger Games is alright, but the rest of what today's kids are reading looks like total shit.

And obligatory Garth Nix comment: I loved Keys to the Kingdom. Never really got into Abhorsen. Apparently a fourth book is coming out?

edit: Bartimaeus Sequence. That is all.

 

[HallucinatingElvis]

My 11yo son devours the GooseBumps books along with Captain Underpants and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, He's also just started up The Rangers Apprentice series wich I am not familiar with. Very excited that he's moving into the fantasy settings...i get to steer him towards some of my favorites :-D

 

[suzu]

Percy Jackson and all the other stuff from Rick Riordan.

 

[KevinCow]

How has Goosebumps been mentioned several times in this thread, but Animorphs hasn't been mentioned once?

 

[xxracerxx]

How has Goosebumps been mentioned several times in this thread, but Animorphs hasn't been mentioned once?

I never read it as a kid, hell I never even read Goosebumps.

 

[Mr.Fresh]

My neice and nephew reads Wimpy Kid series.

 

[Pau]

*fist bump*

Everything you've said. Everything!

That's two copies guaranteed to sell!

How has Goosebumps been mentioned several times in this thread, but Animorphs hasn't been mentioned once?

I always preferred Everworld. Even with the shitty ending.

 

[fredrancour]

How has Goosebumps been mentioned several times in this thread, but Animorphs hasn't been mentioned once?

I read the first half or so of Animorphs and then the final one. So many damn books. I'm not sure why I stopped reading them. Applegate's other series remnants was some god-tier stuff.

 

[Candeldandel]

Cosmopolitan, 17 Magazine, Twilight.

For fuck's sake, my 15 year old sister reads Fifty Shades of Grey.

Who the hell would let a 15 year old read that book? That is... not good. Seriously.

I mean, I'm all for reading and stuff, but there should be a little bit of screening when it comes to straight up S&M pornography, right??

 

[Messofanego]

How has Goosebumps been mentioned several times in this thread, but Animorphs hasn't been mentioned once?

I read both equally.

I used to confuse Christina Applegate as being related to the author.

I'm going to grow my kids on Roald Dahl, pretty timeless. lol at some who're projecting that just because they don't read, no one else does or reads just Twilight shit.

 

[ksdixon]

goosebumps, goosebumps you choose the scare, goosebumps series 2000, fear street, point horror, spooksville. those series were my ish back in the day.

 

[Conor 419]

 

[Bomber Bob]

50 grays of shade

 

[Ceebs]

Who the hell would let a 15 year old read that book? That is... not good. Seriously.

Here is a great recent quote by Terry Pratchett on the topic of kids reading things they probably should not be:

When I was quite young, I used to work in the local library. One day, I was carting books around. A lady asked me what kind of book would I suggest for a child of 6? I said, “A book intended for a child of 7.” She said, “Why?” I said, “You want them to grow.” When you were a kid, you undoubtedly read books you were not suited for. Did you tell your mum about them? Did you understand all the words at that time? “Pederasty,” I had difficulty with. “Ogre,” I thought was “ogg-ree,” because I’d never heard it said.

I read grown-up literature because I could in that library. I could run around and do what I wanted. I read stuff that kids shouldn’t know about, but because it came in when you weren’t sitting with mom and dad side by side, very embarrassed, you’re just, “Ah, that’s an interesting word. That’s an interesting thing they’re doing.” So that just gets locked up there, and sooner or later it will lock into its right place. I don’t think you can say, “Oh, this isn’t for kids” with the written word, where you might with other things.

I know it rings true for me. I was carting around copies of Stephen King books at far to young of an age. The bathroom scene in The Shining still freaks me the fuck out because I read that when I was really young.

 

[lacinius]

Get them reading the amazingly awesome Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull

Or if they are more into action, have them jump in on the Leviathan trilogy by Scott Westerfeld

Or go a little outside the box with something like this:

**edit... this thread is pretty good...

 

[Anth0ny]

Kids still read Captain Underpants? I LOVED those books back in fifth grade. I had the box set:

soooooooo good.

 

[siddx]

A lot of the same stuff kids have been reading for years with some newer stuff too. Judy Blume, Andrew Clements, Shel Silverstein, Jerry Spinelli, Magic Treehouse, Diary of a wimpy kid, Percy Jackson series, Geronimo Stilton.
It also largely depends on whatever the school librarian and teacher encourage and stock the bookshelves with. Every school will have certain children's books that seem to be more popular than they are elsewhere just because they have one (or more) strong advocate encouraging students to read them. Which is what has happened in my school with Geronimo Stilton.