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We have a voracious reader in our house and we have a “if it interests me” reader. My daughter will read about anything. My son is another story, so I am constantly on the search for fun kids books that grab my son’s attention and keep it. Not an easy task.
My son is 8 years old and all boy. “Made up stories are boring,” he tells me. But, he finds big books of facts overwhelming. We have found that he prefers biographies of adventurous people in history (currently Daniel Boone), fiction books that contain lots of action and no “girly stuff”, and magazines with simple pages of information.
Our most recent find fits his preferences perfectly.
DK Adventures
DK Adventures is the newest series from one of my favorite publishers, DK Publishing. Our favorite reference books for years have been the DK Eyewitness books
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Every time my daughter went to the library in her elementary years, she came home with one. When my son first started reading, DK Readers comprised most of his collection. They always held his attention.
We were excited when our friends at DK sent us the new DK Adventure series for the kids to review and to share with our readers. These fun kids books are written for the 8-11 age range and are a great mix of the Eyewitness Books and the readers.
The DK Adventure books contain short, exciting stories interspersed with fact-filled pages of relevant information. The stories are real adventures and the fact pages are filled with those fabulous graphics and images DK is known for.
I love when my son gets excited about what he is reading and has to stop and tell me details about Darth Vadar’s armor or about how a nuclear submarine works.
Check out all four books in the series.
We really liked each one. My son was a big fan of the Star Wars books. My daughter enjoyed the Horse Club, even though she is a little older than the target age. We all learned interesting things about life and explorations in the deep sea from Terrors of the Deep.
Which one would your kids like?
My daughter would love these! She loves to read history and adventures and anything about animals.
My kids would like any of them, but the Star Wars: Jedi Battles would be great! I have 3 kids that love the series just like their Daddy. 🙂
I have a fiction and a non-fiction reader. Both love horses, so Horse Club would appeal to both.
I think they will like the terrors of the deep.
My three boys love Star Wars. I am always looking for new books that peek their interest. They have some DK books, but I haven’t seen these. They would love any of them.
Love DK books! My kiddos would love all four but especially the Star Wars: Jedi battles!
My girls would love the horse book! The older one likes facts, the younger one likes the story.
I love the DK books! We have a human body one that my kids just love 🙂 Since they can’t read yet I am all about keeping the books fun.
My daughter would love the horse book and my son would love the Star Wars books.
My son would LOVE LOVE LOVE the STAR WARS BOOK(s)!!!!!
Horse Club! My children really love to read facts.
Thanks so much for the helpful review! My family would love The Horse Club best.
My son loves Star Wars!!!
Terrors of the deep would be awesome… some of my kids like stories about people…and some of them like nonfiction.
My daughter would love Horse Club. She likes both story and fact books.
My son is 7 years old and loves stories/books about animals – Star Wars is also a huge hit!
Any and or all is fine by the Kane bunch….Thank you DK for continuing to crank out good, quality material. Thank YOU for the heads up Marci….Just found your blog today.
LaDonna
Head Momma of Kane INC
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I can’t wait to start my daughter on Star Wars!!!
My kids love Star Wars but they also love books about animals of the sea.
We would love the Horse books. We like facts.
Thank you for the giveaway.
My son loves the sea so Terrors of the Deep would be interesting. He loves reading facts more often and when he learns new things he loves to share them with me : )