What should be the evening story? Tips for 5-10 year olds

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What should be the evening story? Tips for 5-10 year olds
What should be the evening story? Tips for 5-10 year olds
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My favorite time in the evening storytelling happened when my little son, around the age of four or five, started to be interested in connected stories and novels. It completely changed the mood of our evening stories that I don't read individual stories, but a long, exciting, continuous one, where we have time to get to know and fall in love with the characters, the story has twists and turns, which we can talk about during the day and guess what will happen. It's a pleasure to see how interested and engaged he is, how he remembers even the smallest details, how he integrates what he hears into his own world view and thinks further.

Of course, it is not easy to find a suitable novel for a bedtime story. Now I recommend a few, but I state in advance that you will get a completely random, in no way "best bedtime stories in the world" type list, but one that we liked, recent editions, reissues, published in the last couple of years, so they are easily and simply available. I tried to choose contemporary, or almost contemporary, classic, light texts that can be read aloud to both boys and girls.

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Caleb Krisp: Ivy Pocket and the Giant Diamond

Our newest favorite is quite fresh, it was published a few days ago by Kolibri. My little boy immediately fell for it because of the colorful and funny graphics, and although he chose several books for himself that day, in the evening he pulled out the funny ones from among his spoils. And Ivy Pocket is really funny!

It has an absurd, evil, funny, laugh-out-loud sense of humor, the kind when we laugh at a countess who decapitates a plate of soup, and a hapless narrator who thinks he's super beautiful and super smart, but who is none other than the famous- infamous twelve-year-old maid Ivy Pocket. Stuck in Paris after her countess ran away from her, Ivy must return a magnificent diamond to London. He sets about it furiously, which of course causes all hell to break loose.

Kristina Ohlsson: The Secret of the Castle

Ohlsson is originally a crime writer, and this can also be seen in his children's books: he usually describes spooky, tooth-rattling stories, where deep, human, thought-provoking stories and human dramas take place between the nail-biting thrills. I would rather recommend him to the age group over 9-10, but that's a matter of taste and children. My little boy loved his previous books, the Glass Children trilogy, even though he is only in first grade.

In his latest book, The Secret of the Castle, a pair of twelve-year-old twins follows a mysterious mystery and a baby crying at night. However, behind the almost thriller-like plot, the everyday, familiar traumas and anxieties of the children of a divorced couple come to life.

Roald Dahl: Matilda

I don't think anyone needs to introduce Dahl, the English writer is a classic of children's literature, whose works we have already admired on the screen, most recently the Friendly Giant from Sofi and Habó directed by Spielberg.

The book Matilda has already been made into a movie, but in Dahl's case it is a thousand times true that even though the movie turned out to be great, you have to read the original first. As is often the case in the author's other books, the main character here is a smart and smart kid named Matilda, who lives in a completely ignorant and horrible family who want her to watch as much TV as possible and become dull like the adults.

However, one of her teachers discovers that Matilda is secretly a genius. And Matilda discovers that she can secretly do magical things. Dahl's novels always delight you with wonderfully witty, outspoken humor, which will make both parents and children laugh out loud, and his heroes are real little self-confidence bombs.

Ágnes Bálint: The Enchanted Miss Mouse

Bálint Ágnes is an instant classic. I vividly remember his books from my childhood, which I devoured and loved, whether they were read to me or I read them, and now I have to see that the texts have not worn out at all, in fact.

My favorite was Friends, my son's favorite was The Enchanted Mouse Lady (this also shows that a really good fairy tale is not gender-specific). In the story, a little mouse named Fáni carelessly bites into a sugar figure representing a witch, and turns into a baby-faced witch. He gets involved in all kinds of crazy adventures while serving the grumpy Cat Hercsula and gets to know the inhabitants of a small island.

Although we had some problems understanding the different scales (now Fani clicks once and it becomes small or big, but anyway, how big is it by default, the size of a person, but then how does it fit into Hercsula Macska's house) this can easily be overcome. We have as many favorites as any Dahl, which is a big word. Since the Móra publishing house reissued it a few years ago, it is not difficult to get it.

Lois Lowry: Bradley is the terror of the class

My old favorite Lois Lowry, one of the big names of the Animus publishing house, The Keeper of Memories was one of my defining teenage readings, and I can't wait for my son to get there when he's old enough (just a few years away). Now, however, it's even more of a Bradley era: my strong-willed but creative child was happy to listen to the sometimes funny and sometimes touching adventures of the brawling, class terror Bradley. According to the teachers, he suffers from a behavioral disorder and the children stay away from him, but a young kindergarten teacher arrives who sees the value in the boy and listens to his made-up stories with great pleasure.

Animus has now republished the award-winning classic, as well as the writer's novel It Happened in the Summer. The main character of the story, which has a softer tone, is sadder, and is intended for older people, maybe more for girls, is a little girl, Meg, who is jealous of her sister, who has to face her brother's illness, and she is helped by some unusual, new friendships in processing her feelings that are swirling back and forth during the difficult period.

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Todó guesses about kindergarten:

Kicsit kakukktojás Balázs Vig's new children's book, Todó, is about preschoolers, because according to the title, it is more for preschoolers. However, the author's edgy, kid-friendly, slightly pungent but innocent language can be enjoyed by older children as well, especially if the kindergarten is nearby. Gender is not gender, that's why Todó and his problems are sometimes very boyish, fights and kicks, and rudeness, and other big adventures, which are usually arranged in a magical way.

The author's previous book, The Purse Robbers, was a similarly light but enjoyable read, and it was a great success with us: it is about a princess named Szeretke, who is kidnapped from the bathroom of the Panel Palace by a pirate ship. The princess befriends a little boy named Bújócska and his kangaroo, Damil, so that they return home accompanied by all kinds of exciting and chosen adventures, and the fairy tale has a happy ending.

+1 for adults:

Mark Woods: Planet of Parents (The World's Best Parenting Methods)

Since we are actually speaking to parents with our book recommendations, we also include one that is really written for them. Planet of the Parents may seem a bit scary at first with its clever sub title (The best child-rearing methods in the world), but luckily it's not about this guy coming and telling you everything about how to feed, drink, sleep, and raise your child. Fortunately, these universal sayings usually don't work.

The Planet of Parents instead takes you on a journey, Woods looks for answers to how families in different parts of the world use similar or even radically different solutions to similar problems. Whether it's about giving birth, babies sleeping, room cleanliness, eating or even learning, or the role of technology in education or the child's life, he walks around how these issues are approached in different countries and cultures. It shows side by side, for example, how the Finns and the Koreans created a super successful education system, or what East and West think about praising children. The Planet of Parents will not make anyone a perfect parent, but it is suitable for letting go of the cramp that we should know the only saving solution.

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