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I'm trying to get an idea of the range of books that primary school children enjoy. Apart from the G. Stilton books that seem to be topping charts week after week, are there any other books our young readers enjoy?

I cannot remember much of what I read in primary school (just that I did read a lot)!

However, I would probably recommend the Wishing Chair series by Enid Blyton as a start. I remember enjoying it very much.

Books by Roald Dahl are good as well. George's Marvellous Medicine was funny. The Witches was interesting as well!

Apparently, my brother used to like the Percy Jackson series too when he was younger.

Justine wrote: "I'm trying to get an idea of the range of books that primary school children enjoy. Apart from the G. Stilton books that seem to be topping charts week after week, are there any other books our you..."

Anything by Roald Dahl, Beverly Cleary, Eva Ibbotson, Diana Wynne Jones, and Enid Blyton.

Also, the Harry Potter series, The Doomspell trilogy by Cliff McNish, and all the Nancy Drew books.

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood, Wildwood by Colin Meloy, Drift House by Dale Peck.

Encyclopedia Brown Series, Boxcar Children, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Nancy Drew / Hardy Boys series

My daughter enjoys these local series: Ellie Belly, Robozonic, Sherlock Sam, Danger Dan, Diary of Amos Lee.

I read a lot of Enid Blyton. We got a reading list in P4 of excellent books for younger readers - can't remember what, unfortunstely. i read encyclopaedias - the condensed illustrated kinds. (DK has a great one called the Explore or something.) Lots of DK Eyewitness books. I don't remember specifically going for books marketed at children, like the Stilton series (they weren't out back then anyway, but my brother liked them when he was younger). I'd wander the kids' section and select books at random that looked appealing.

Artemis Fowl and Harry Potter definitely.

For girls, the Tracy Beaker series by Jacqueline Wilson is good.

I'm reading some of the classics with my daughter (now P5) - she won't read on her own but she likes to have them read to her.....Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, What Katy Did, Ballet Shoes

My girl(P5) is reading Harry Potter.

Back when I was primary school I really enjoyed the goddess girls series and the magic tree House

There are still many kids who like Enid blyton

I found Django Wexler's Forbidden Library series to be very engaging and age-appropriate for primary school kids interested in fantasy.

The Forbidden Library

Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co. is pretty good as well (nice mix of horror and humor), if a tad dark for kids not into the supernatural themes

The Screaming Staircase

for kids into Enid Blyton/mystery style books, Robin Stevens is a good choice, with a mystery series starring a Hong Kong Chinese girl in England, pre-World War 2

Murder Most Unladylike