Reading Material for a Six Year Old Boy

[halleyscomet]

Caleb is currently burning through The Rainbow Fairies book series as well as Encyclopedia Brown. Despite having read the exploits of Encyclopedia Brown as a kid, I'm kinda more comfortable with the fairy books at the moment, as I'm realizing the Encyclopedia Brown books cater to a lot of stereotypes about women and Native Americans symptomatic of

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[sweetmmeblue]

Rainbow Fairies? Maybe you're finding them different than we did. When the boys found them and we read them it was all about them getting into trouble and needed to be rescued. Maybe we missed something but they were the one series we would not let the boys read. Then they got into the Magic Treehouse books and a few other things and it became a moot point.

but we also had that conversation. The other one that happened was when kfir realized that most of the leads in books were male.

[halleyscomet]

We have a bunch of the Magic Treehouse books. Sadly, Caleb is not comfortable with the suspense level in them yet. I think one reason the Rainbow Fairy books appeal to him is there's never any REAL danger or suspense. I look forward to him outgrowing this, as he's enjoyed some of the Magic Treehouse audio books he's heard

[sweetmmeblue]

I asked Thing1 and he suggested Captain Underpants. As well as Ricky Ricotta and his mighty robot.

[meranthi]

Personally, I hate the Captain Underpants books, but I really don't think bathroom humor is funny. Well, not anymore. I'm sure I would have found them hysterical at Caleb's age. :)

[halleyscomet]

I tend to find bathroom humor more annoying than anything else, but Hootiebird currently finds it HILARIOUS, so the Captain Underpants stories might be right up his alley.