What books are right for an eight year old child?

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Anna Fedulova

Children's author, columnist for parent media, founder of the blog “Children and books».

Fortunately, today the answer to this question can be quite voluminous and multifaceted. Naturally, when choosing books and authors, it is best to focus on the preferences and hobbies of the reader or reader.

Some people like stories about adventure and travel. Others are detective stories or science fiction. Still others recognize nothing but colorful science pop and comics. And this is absolutely normal.

But there are certain important points to consider in most cases. For example, for the age of 7-9 years (if we are talking about fiction), the so-called chapterbooks, that is, books of 64-128 pages, divided into chapters and decorated with a sufficient number of illustrations.

Another significant point is that at the moment there is no separate literature for boys and girls. Such absurdities and stereotypes have long become obsolete. Now the main focus is on the age and interests of children. And this is also very cool and promising.

Of the brightest and most qualitatively designed books suitable for independent reading, I can safely recommend the following.

Foreign prose

1. «Isadora Moon. Adventures of a very unusual girl, Harriet Muncaster.
2. «Vico. Adventures of an amazing boy", Oliver Pouch.
3. «Maisie Hitchins. The Adventures of a Detective Girl, Holly Webb.
4. «Super secret gang of pussies”, Katya Alves.
5. «Tea house, Hayley Scott.
6. «Pirate school", Sir Steve Stevenson.
7. «Charozemli, Thea Stilton.
8. «Astronauts, Drew Brockington.
9. «Rabbit and Teddy Bear", Julian Gough.
10. «Winnie and Wilbur", Laura Owen and Valerie Thomas.
11. «Magic losers, Neil Patrick Harris.
12. «Lou All the top", François Place.
13. «Detective Fletcher", Antje Zillat.
14. «Hotel "Flamingo"", Alex Milway.

And also true stories Timo Parvela, Ruse Lagercrantz, Moni Nilsson and Lucy Hawking.

Russian prose

1. Book series "Adventures in time", Anna Gurovaya.
2. Book series "Asta-Hurricane", Christina Kretova.
3. School stories Victoria Lederman.
4. School stories Anna Zenkova.
5. Humorous stories and stories Anton Soi.
6. Book series "Jingliki"And"Fairy patrol", Oleg Roy.
7. Adventure stories and detectives Katya Matyushkina.
8. Stories from the life and fantastic adventures of Yulia Ivanova.

Comics and graphic novels

1. «Ariol", Emmanuelle Guibert.
2. «Emil and Margot", Anne Didier and Olivier Maller.
3. «5 worlds”, Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel, Xante Booma, Boya Sun and Matt Rockefeller.
4. «Cherry Diaries», Joris Chamblin, Aurelie Neire.
5. «Hildafolk", Luke Pearson.
6. «The Children of Captain Grant"(Based on the story by Jules Verne), Alexi Nam.
7. Books based on cartoons from Pixar and Disney.