Anyone have suggestions for a 10 year old who likes comic mischief? He’s a huge fan of diary of a wimpy kid series but his reading level has moved beyond that. He’s also really enjoyed the wild robot series, Matilda, and the skunk and fox books.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: thank you all for your great recommendations. I’m going to check them all out with him tonight!

  • almpeter@feddit.de
    9·
    10 months ago

    I’d recommend tje authors Jack London, Joanne Rowling, Rudyard Kipling, Terry Pratchett, Arthur Doyle… in no particular order.

    • neatchee@lemmy.world
      5·
      10 months ago

      I don’t think Terry Pratchett is appropriate for a 10y/o if only because it’s a huge waste; they won’t understand more than 10% of the jokes

      • joby@programming.dev
        7·
        10 months ago

        He wrote a decent number of books aimed at kids. There are the Tiffany Aching books in Discworld for a start, as well as non discworld books like Only You Can Save Mankind or the Bromeliad books.

        I wouldn’t stop a 10yo from reading any of the discworld books if they’re enjoying them, mind. There’s lots to find funny anyway, and we all had to start building our “reference vocabulary” somewhere.

        • neatchee@lemmy.world
          4·
          10 months ago

          I didn’t realize he was a prolific kids author! TIL!

          I’m always torn: I’d never stop someone from reading a book “too early” but I also don’t want someone to, fot example, miss out on a great character romance story because they already read the book for the action when they were 11