Elephant & Piggie

We've 2 kids, 8 and 5 - both total book worms (and into Minecraft and biking and dude perfect and all sorts... But they love books). Find stuff you'll enjoy reading to them. And read to them a lot. You've got the right idea. MO Williams books are great for that age. The elephant and piggie books are fun, Annette's Baguette is brilliant. The Brambly Hedge books are lovely. Dr Seuss is mostly quite fun. Peter's railway (if they like trains or engineering at all), the Thomas the Tank engine books, the topsy and Tim books are ok... But get lots of books from the library, charity / thrift stores. Get lots of books to try out, and have available for them to read. And if they aren't interested, you can always thrift them again. Hanging out at the local library can be good. No time pressure, just let them browse and look at whatever random things they want. For slightly older kids, we've really enjoyed reading Hillary McKay, Terry Pratchett's kids books / short stories, Vivian French's books are great. and some of the classics are great too - EE Milne, the Paddington books...

Mo Willems is awesome (Pigeon series, Elephant and Piggy). Some of the Dr. Suess books are still great and fun to read (I can read with my eyes shut, One fish two fish). The book with no pictures, the day the crayons quit, dragons love tacos, and the princess and the dragon by Audrey Wood are all books that I've probably read 100 times and still enjoy. As my kids got a bit older the Box Car children series was compelling, and the girls loved the Rainbow Magic books. Capt. Underpants and Dog man are hilarious and just subversive enough that a 7-9 yr old feel like they are getting away with something. Then on to Mysterious Benedict Society, Harry Potter, Rick Riordan, and Keeper of the Lost Cities. Our M.O. was to max out our Library card on a regular basis with just about everything possible and then iterate from there on the authors the kids enjoyed. I feel like reading is one of the things we've gotten right so far.