Comments on: Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan

By: Dionne

Dionne — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:03:47 +0000

I had a chuckle when I read this as I just started The Lightning Thief with Caleb two weeks ago. We’ve recently read The Hobbit and Tale of Desperaux, and he enjoyed both.

Michael is my reader, and some of the books he really liked when he was younger were the Silverwing series by Kenneth Oppel, the Deltora series by Emily Rodda, the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, and the Guardians of Ga’Hoole books by Kathryn Lasky. (Ummm, I suppose this is where I admit I also read all of them except the Guardians of Ga’Hoole as well. One of the great things about your kids getting older is when they say, “Mom, you gotta read this, it’s really good” – and it is.)

And I have to put a plug in for one of my all-time favorite children’s series – coming in a close second after Madeleine L’Engle’s Wrinkle in Time books -The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. Man, I love these books.

By: Lahni

Lahni — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:38:24 +0000

John,
Your daughter is the same age as my son. Maybe I should start on the Harry Potter series?
Kristin,
I didn’t find the fear factor to be all that bad. Isaiah said he didn’t find them scary at all but I guess that depends on your kids too.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:52:04 +0000

I am so glad you posted about this, we have the first of this series and I have been wanting to read it with my boys but I wasn’t sure. What is the fear factor in these books?
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By: John Mutford

John Mutford — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:04:17 +0000

I admit that I’d not heard of this series until the movie came out. Still, sounds interesting and maybe I’ll give it a spin with my daughter. Speaking of her, I have been slowly reading her the Harry Potter series. I read her the first two in grade one, and now that she’s going to grade 2 in the fall, I’ll probably begin the third this summer. I agree that it gets darker and darker and that’s why I’m dishing them out slowly, hoping she’ll mature with the series.
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