Our son, now a first-grader, read an entire book this afternoon.
It wasn't a picture book, nor an easy reader, but a 106-page chapter book called "Winter of the Ice Wizard," Number 32 in The Magic Tree House series.
He has tackled other chapter books, starting with the "Spiderwick Chronicles," which he completed over the summer. But he hadn't read a whole book in one sitting before.
He reads just about anywhere -- in his bed by headlamp after we've tucked him in for the night, sprawled across the living room floor, on a train ride with Grandma Edna, in the car, in the hammock in my brother-in-law's cabin.
His love of books comes as no surprise, considering I have read to him, and still do, every morning before breakfast and every evening before bedtime since he was born. What sometimes surprises us is the reading level of the books he selects.
We just completed JRR Tolkien's "The Hobbit," a story that continues to captivate my husband and myself, as well.
Other good reads for young boys: The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Runaway Ralph, Ralph S. Mouse (Beverly Cleary)
Henry Huggins, Henry and Ribsy (Beverly Cleary)
Kung Fu Panda: The Movie Storybook (Catherine Hapka)
National Geographic readers: Bats! Snakes! Pandas, Mummies, Storms (various authors)
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