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You may think of potty humor and Captain Underpants when you hear the name Dav Pilkey, but I think of the silly-sweet-goofy Dragon, which was one of the first books I reviewed here when I started in 2008! When I discovered that Dragon had his own television show, I updated the review here, adding in information about other beginning readers and picture books by Pilkey that I love. In that
I first posted this review in September of 2008, when my blog was barely a month old and I was racing to write reviews of all my favorite (and my children's) books. A new comment on these books reminded me how wonderful and rare they are and I decided to repost this review and hopefully introduce a whole new generation of emerging readers to these superb books! If you already know the DRAGON
These sound great for my younger daughter -- she likes the "easy readers", but most of them are so bad. I've put them all on hold at the library...thanks for the recommendation.
I agree. So many of the easy to read books are dead boring. It's a joy to find entertaining chapter books and hard to wade through picture books that might fit the bill.
These sound like wonderful books for my first grade son! We also love "Frog and Toad," but I have never heard of these. As everyone seems to agree, most early readers are boring and pointless. I'm off to try and find this series now. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for this recommendation and thanks for commenting on my chapter book post. Your blog is a fantastic resource and am going to add it to my
Thanks for the kind words. One of my main goals is to find and review beginning reader books that are good quality. Until then, I think I'll write a post on Frog & Toad!
As expected, Ella (only four, but reading well) LOVES these books...so thanks again for the recommendation. Spot on!
I'm so glad Ella liked the Dragon books - too bad there are only a small handful. Has she tried the Poppleton books yet? I love, love, love those. Also, I hope there are a few picture books in the pile from my post that she can enjoy reading...
I didn't immediately leap at the Poppleton books because of my longstanding bias against walking, talking, dressing animals. I've avoided them whenever possible, along with any book composed of rhyming text. It's my own peculiar compunction, brought on by getting so thoroughly sick of them early on and realizing that most of them are terribly formulaic. That said, the Poppletons sound charming
I LOVED the dragon books when i was younger and now I cannot wait until my nephew is a little bit older to share and read those books with him.
I'm so glad to hear that - and I'm glad they are still in print. Pilkey's humor reminds me a little of James Marshall's hippos, George and Martha - if they got silly once in a while...
My now 4-yr old started reading the Dragon books since she was 3. She still loves them. Now she reads them to her 9 month old brother :) Hilarious stories! Our favorite is Dragon's Christmas when he tried to eat all the candies from the wreath he had made :) Thanks for your wonderful blog, I get ideas which books to get for my early reader :)<br /><br />Thanks again Tanya!
@Crinklynose - Thanks so much for your comment! That is exactly how I imagined these books being enjoyed and it is so great to know that your daughter is now reading them out loud to her baby brother! Fantastic!
Wow! This blog is so packed with information! Love that in depth posts about each book and the categorization along the right side. Thanks for writing!
Thanks for reading my blog and thanks so much for the kind words!