I have a seven year old boy and a five year old girl, and they’re both addicted to books. About two years ago, I got to the point that I couldn’t read the same picture book for the thousandth time, so I transitioned them to more advanced books. Some of these books are still for kids, and some are genuine novels.

We operate in a pattern, each one of us getting to pick a book in turn. This is the only way I can avoid reading the same book over and over!

I had to ban all Roald Dahl books for a time because that’s all they would pick.

In the past two years, these are the books I’ve read aloud:

The Hobbit – The Magician’s Nephew – The Horse and His Boy – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – The Silver Chair – The Last Battle – James and the Giant Peach (x2) – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (x3) – Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (never again) – The Twits – The BFG (never again) – Matilda (x3) – Esio Trot – The Minpins – The Wind in the Willows – Where the Red Fern Grows (x2) – Akiko on the Planet Smoo – Akiko in the Sprubly Islands – Akiko and the Great Wall of Trudd – Akiko in the Castle of Alia Rellapor – Akiko and the Intergalactic Zoo – Akiko and the Alpha Centuari 5000 – Akiko and the Journey to Toog – Akiko: The Training Master

And for a bonus, these are the books I’ve read aloud to my wife in the last two years:

The Fellowship of the Ring – The Two Towers – The Return of the King – Redwall