Hey older fantasy dorks, anyone familiar with Robert Howard and Michael Moorcock? I'm getting to the point where I want to start reading Joshua some epic fantasy but I can't think of anyone age appropriate for a 6 year old besides Tolkien and CS Lewis.

So, what kind of fantasy is age appropriate for a 6/7/8 year old?

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the star wars novels?

i dont know, im not much of a reader.

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Having the same issues man. Some shorter ones would be the Spiderwick Chronicles or the Cirque du Freak series. Spiderwick is good for his age. Cirque du Freak is for tweens but what boy doesn't like werewolves and vampires all mixed with comedy? The Narnia series was my first series.....and of course there are the first few Harry potters which were written more for the younger crowd and got more advanced as they went along.

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the wizard of oz series.

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Too bad the bible isn't age appropriate.

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I was going to quote like twenty random posts of yours about how you claim to be christian or claim to "not know" when it's clever for you. I decided I'd delete all that and just say: STOP

We get it. You have a fucked up relationship with your faith...leave it off our boards. This and at least a dozen other threads have been turned sour from your needlessly injected and badly formed thoughts on religion. Phil wants advice on what to read his child that may fall into "fantasy" genre (dragons, wizards etc etc.) You also know from other threads that he isn't exactly cracking the Bible every night before bed. So back off. Get the fuck out.

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thank god. have a beer on me for doing what i wanted to do, but far more politely.

And to address the question seriously, I think Tolkien is what made the genre what it is today, and that The Hobbit is as good a place as any to start. But I'm really not a fantasy reader so take that with a grain of salt. A serious fantasy reader might laugh at that suggestion.

Phil: These might be a bit more on the older kid side but to keep in mind none the less. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and the Drizzt books by R.A. Salvatore. They're long but say, four to six years from now your boy will get lost in those books for years and love it. The Wheel of Time series is just now wrapping up after...shit like 15 years or more. Straight up D&D kinda stuff and even now as an old nerd I go back and re-read them from time to time. The Drizzt series are also very long and are broken up into three books in a couple series then solo sequels too. A more age appropriate series (also by R.A. Salvatore) is the Cleric Quintet which is outside of the Drizzt series (Drizzt is the main character of Salvatore's main series). It has more humor and being shorter may be more up your alley at his age now. Shorter reads and a little less blood and guts. Here's some links:

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/R.A._Salvatore : this is an over view but you may want to dig to read the books in either the order they were written or their chronilogical order in story terms since he did write a bit out or order sometimes.

http://www.dragonmount.com/ Here's the Jordan link. Robert Jordan actually died a few years back and Sanderson is finishing up the novels. A great and EPIC story man....like 14-16 books which most are like 6-8 hundred pages or more.

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Deltora QUest, at least from personal experience, might be good

It MAY be a little advanced, but its somewhat hard to judge. If it is, its just barely, and mabye a year or so would do it

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The Hobbit is a great read but for as iconic as it is, I never felt compelled to read it a second time. The whole series was fun but nothing that really "changed" me or whatever you'd call it. Some books just rope you in and the Lord of the Rings books never really did that for me. But to each their own.

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No dude, The Hobbit is the perfect jumping-off point for fantasy. It's what I had read to me as a boy, and it's what I'll be reading to my boy.

Friends of mine's input has ruled out the Conan stuff, as unbeknownst to me, it was originally hardcore 1930's serial pulp stuff. Gonna go with Tolkien, CS Lewis, the Lemony Snicket's series, and the Spiderwick Chronicles to start.

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Forgot about that one....very good series.

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yeah...the Hobbit is an easy read and a great introduction to Tolkien's world...if he likes it then you can dive into the series, if not, you haven't wasted much time

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