Kids who have just started school will be keen on picture books, but soon they will enjoy a bed time story being read to them. Providing you encourage them to get into the habit of reading, it won’t take long until they are reading to themselves.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise  is to the body.

For  tips on developing your child’s reading skills, click their age below

Ages 6 to 8

Ages 9 to 12

Top reads for Ages 6 to 10:

• Doctor Seus (a collection of 15)
• The Tashi series ( a collection of eight)  by A & B Fienberg & K Gamble
• Famous Five series: (a collection of 15) by Enid Blyton
• Guinness World Records (published annually)
• Most books by Roald Dahl is promoted as the worlds number one story teller)
• Roald Dahl: Danny Champion of the world
• Roald Dahl: Charlie and the chocolate factory
• Roald Dahl: The Twits
• Roald Dahl: Matilda
• Roald Dahl: James and The giant Peach
• Roald Dahl: Charlie and the great  Glass elevator
• Roald Dahl: The BFG
• Roald Dahl: Fantastic Mr Fox
• Roald Dahl: Georges Marvellous Medicine
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
• The Winnie the Pooh books by A.A. Milne

Top reads for Ages 9 to 12 :

• The Harry Potter series (a collection of seven) by J.K. Rowling
• The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
• The Spiderwick Chronicles (a collection of five) by DiTerlizzi & Black
• Zac Power (a collection of Eight) by H.I. Larry
• The Fire Within by Chris d’Lacey
• Inkheapt by Cornelia Funke
• The Dangerous Book for Boys byGonn & Hal Iggulden
• The James Bond series by Ian Fleming
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
• Fungus the Bogeyman by R Briggs
• Rogue Male by G Household
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.C. Lewis
• The Narnia Chronicles
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling
• The Thirty-Nine Steps by J Buchan
• Isaac Asimov – science  fiction
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by D Adams