By way of background: my boys are 11 and 8. The 8 year old is currently reading Battle of the Labyrinth, the 11 year old is reading The Chamber of Secrets (he came late to Harry Potter; I'm not sure why). In a nutshell, they both like reading pretty well (not as well as their mama did when she was their ages); although they like fantasy, they read across genres.
There lists of book presents include very little regular fiction (1 out of 11). Our house is so full of middle grade sci fi/fantasy that they have enough of it to read (lucky children!), and I also find it very difficult to predict what they will actually pick up and read, let alone truly enjoy. So their book presents tend to be random grab bag of non-fiction and graphic novels.
For the eleven year old:The Last Dragon, by Jane Yolen and Rebecca Guay (so beautiful!)
The Dragon of Hong Kong (Yoko Tsuno book 5) by Roger Leloup (this will make him very happy)
The Acme Catalog (Quality is Our #1 Dream)
The Way We Work, by David McCauley
The Magic of Reality, by Richard Dawkins
All of My Friends are Dead (he saw it in a store, and wants it really badly...I think the title is the funniest thing, and it goes downhill from there, but whatever.)
For my eight year old:The Mythbusters science fair book
A Greyhound of a Girl, by Roddy Doyle (I hope he likes it; I haven't read it myself yet, but he loves The Meanwhile Adventures et seq. so he should be pleased. Unless he's disappointed because it doesn't have Rover in it)
Eric, by Shaun Tan (An expended story from Tales from Outer Suburbia. Eric is pictured at right)
Gon, Vol. 4 My boy sees a lot of himself in Gon, the dinosaur that time forgot--both are loyal, determined, and very fierce.
The Fog Mound book 1-- Travels of Thelonius (a post apocalyptic fantasy with mice that's part graphic novel. I picked this one up used, and haven't read it myself, but I tested it on his brother, and it was approved)
If you were to be given one of these books, which would you like?
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