My daughter?

Question

My daughter is 10 and she is a very very fast reader. The problem is, we don't have many books for her. When I go out to buy her some I don't know what she likes, and when ever I get her something she says its not a book for her, or its is to thick. Any reccomendations? She says she likes Fairytale novels.

Answer 1

Ella Enchanted or anything by that same author (Gail Carson Levine, I think).

Answer 2

Hello, I'm a mother of a daughter who is very much in to reading fantasy books and I know where you are coming from when you say it can be hard to find her something she will like, So I will share with you what I do with my daughter I take her and let her find a book that she will like and when she is done I look up the author and book company. I have found that I can see all of the books of the same kind right through the book company's web site and or the authors web site. Here is just one book that my daughter loves and the authors name, ( book) Inky the Indigo fairy written by Daisy Meadows. She has a whole series of books out for your daughters age and little girls who love fairytale novels. Hope it comes as some help. From a Mom who has a reader too.

Answer 3

Fast readers are not necessarily good readers. Some of the fast readers read fast because they just can't wait to finish whatever they started reading, but they do not retain too much information. My advice would be to take her to a public library and just let her open as many books as she likes. There are other advantages in doing so: you don't have to spend any money on books, your daughter will be exposed to a better selection (public libraries usually have wide collections of classic books for children) and, later, she can go and buy books on her own, knowing exactly what to buy, thus saving money.

Answer 4

My first instinct was to say to take her to the library, she'll have a field day. But it seems that everyone has already covered that. The reason it was going to be my suggestion was that when I was her age my mother used to take me to the library with a giant box and let me fill it up with books that I wanted to borrow. I went so often that the librarians knew what books I would be interested and would put them on the side for me when they would be returned. I would finish the entire box in less than a week. Honestly, it's much cheaper than buying her books.

How about looking for stories written by the Brothers Grimm? Those are classic fairytales that I'm sure she will be familiar with such as Rapunzel.

Since she's interested in fairytales she might also be interested in folklore and mytology, those stories can be quite riveting. :]

Answer 5

Try the eragon series, it is very long, but very easy to read. I read them when I was nine. I would also recommend some of the classics, If she is mature intelectually she might enjoy Jane Eyre, but it is very long and not easy to read. Possibly the Meg Cabot books, theyre teen fiction but they do have some reall awesome books. i read a six book series of hers in 12 hours. Ella enchanted, and Fairest are great fairytale books and are not very long. Try the secret garden as well. Harry potter books are no brainers. Or the Charlie Boone books are excellent as well too. Those are just some books that I would reccomend. :D

Answer 6

My daughter loves the Junie B Jones books and she's almost 9. They're not fairytales, but they're cute and not very thick. The Harry Potter books are really good, but really long too. The chronicles of Narnia would be good though.

Answer 7

I remember my mom having the same problem.When I was 9 she bought me the unabridged version of The three musketeers by Alexander Dumas.I was so frustrated.Later she began to buy me Famous five novels by Enid Blyton.Almost all the books written by her are good.Check out the link I've given.

Andrew Lang wrote many fairy tale books.Each one is named after a color.Each book is a collection of fairy tales.

Diana wynne jones writes some books based on a character called Chrestomanci.He is a nine-life enchanter.Read the books in the correct order.The best of the lot is magicians of caprona.

Artemis Fowl book series by Eoin Colfer is about teen age criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl who even plots to steal the gold from the fairies.

Answer 8

My daughter is a fast reader too. She liked the Redwall series when she was 10. She also enjoyed the Chronicles of Narnia.
Another good writer of fantasy-type books is Piers Anthony- although I'd wait until she is about 13 for his Xanth series.
If she enjoys a play on words she might like Robert Aspirin's
Myth Adventure Series:

1. Another Fine Myth (1978)
2. Myth Conceptions (1980)
3. Myth Directions (1982)
4. Hit or Myth (1983)
MYTH Adventures (omnibus) (1984)
5. Myth-ing Persons (1984)
6. Little Myth Marker (1985)
Myth Adventures One (omnibus) (1985)
7. M.Y.T.H. inc. Link (1986)
8. Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections (1987)
9. M.Y.T.H. inc. in Action (1990)
The MYTH-ing Omnibus (omnibus) (1992)
The Second MYTH-ing Omnibus (omnibus) (1992)
10. Sweet Myth-tery of Life (1993)
11. Myth-Ion Improbable (2001)
M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action / Sweet Myth-Tery of Life (omnibus) (2002)
M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link / Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections (omnibus) (2002)
Myth Adventures Three (omnibus) (2002)
Myth-ing Persons / Little Myth Marker (omnibus) (2002)
12. Something M. Y. T. H. Inc. (2002)

Answer 9

These are some great suggestions from my fellow 'answerers' above. You may also want to try browsing on Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com. You can search under the youth or teen fiction book categories. Your daughter can read summaries and reviews of books and see what the covers look like. This may help her identify what she would like. Then you could go to the library to check them out. Good luck.

Answer 10

Ask her for series she likes. Or just go together to the library. Read a newspaper or surf the web while she checks them out. I don't know what fairytale novels would be good, though...

Answer 11

My daughter likes Junie B. Jones novels, Little House on the Prairie novels, Judy Blume 'Dog Biscuits.' She also likes Dear America novels. I hope this helps some.