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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Yeah, my niece is living with me now and we're doing our best to brainwash her into becoming a reader.
Timing is bad, because we can't take her to a bookstore or the library to browse the shelves herself. We're trying to find things on our own. Goosebumps flopped (she's a little too young. She mainly found them boring), Captain Underpants was great until she watched the series on Netflix and the books lost their lustre.
So far, the two that gained the most traction are the Roald Dahl boxed set and the Encyclopedia Brown books.
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How old is she? Maybe some of us could come up with possibilities. Does she read at age level? Above? Below? I envy you. I think reading kids’ book with a kid is one of the great pleasures.
The library is a colossal loss. I was talking with the woman across the street the other day who’s a professor at the local university, and she was bemoaning her seven-year old’s reading level. I have yet to find a kid who is resistant to being let loose in the library (with a little informed influence from the adult at hand). FWIW, she may find books with girls set a flame. Good on you; you’re giving her an incalculable gift in reading.