LOOK NO FURTHER FOR GUIDANCE ON THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOYS
There's no shortage of research that suggests that boys don't read as much as girls and if our email requests from members and browsers is anything to go by a list of books that are 'Great for Boys', is long overdue. So right here on Lovereading4kids our aim is to redress that balance.
We’ve created a special category of books, broken down by age range, which our experts think will be enjoyed enormously by boys.
It might be purely because there’s plenty of exciting action and fast-moving plots in the story and that the book will grab the reader’s attention before they’ve even finished the first page or perhaps the characters in the story are mostly boys.
Please don’t think however, that we’re excluding girls from having an interest in these books. We know there are plenty of girls who also enjoy books that are more aimed at boys.
We hope parents will find it a useful resource. As always you can download free Opening Extracts of each book and buy with a 25% discount, and do come back often as we will be refreshing the list regularly.
Finally, if you as a parent would like more guidance on getting boys to read more then why not take a look at our top tips to get your kid reading.

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Great Books for Boys
Finding 'Great Books for Boys' is easy - Just click on the age range you are interested in to see our special selection of books that we feel are brilliant for boys
Books for Boys 5 and older
Geronimo Stilton
This is an adventure you'll never forget. Meet Geronimo, a newspaper owner whose favourite pastime is writing tales of adventure. Geronimo heads for Egypt to meet mummies, read hieroglypyhics and learn the secrets of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Janet Foxley
A welcome return of a delightfully tiny giant. Everything has changed on Mount Grumble as the Smallings – or humans - have gone. But, while all the other giants celebrate, Muncle Trogg worries that something is going badly wrong… Luckily...
Featured in: 7+ readers | Books for Boys | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
Rex Stone
The boys are off on a thrilling new adventure in Dinosaur Cove. This time they meet up again with a gentle and friendly pareiasaurus and discover that it is in deadly danger. Will they be able to save it from...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Books for Boys | Fascinating Facts
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
Gareth P. Jones
The Clan of the Scorpion are escorting their mentor, Grandmaster One Eye, to a Kung Fu Grandmaster Meet deep in the mountains of Chile, when they are ambushed by a horde of enormous spiders - the Trained Tarantulas of Santiago!...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2012
Gareth P. Jones
The meerkat members of the Clan of the Scorpions are back. This time they are investigating the theft of an Indian Emerald with magical powers which vanished from right under the noses of the monkeys who were guarding it. Even...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Books for Boys | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2011
Gareth P. Jones
Bravery propels this entertaining adventure of how the four meerkat members of the Clan of the Scorpions fight to the death to prevent the evil ringmaster’s plan for world domination. A Big Cat is missing from the Hong Kong zoo;...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Books for Boys | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2011
Lou Kuenzler
Follow Jack Splat, a fearless fly, on his eventful day out enjoying as many disgusting things as possible. The weather is hot and sticky and the park is the perfect place for every kind of tasty treat including fleas, frogs...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Books for Boys | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2011
Lou Kuenzler
This is a hilarious new series, told from the fly-on-the-wall perspective of our death-defying hero Jack Splat as he goes about his daily business - landing on tasty bits of food and spreading germs. But there is danger everywhere for...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Books for Boys | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2011
Simon Bartram
Simon Bartram’s Man on the Moon was one of the most memorable, witty, and intriguing picture books of recent times. Now at last, Bob, the man on the moon, is back and he's looking for a best ever best friend...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2009
Al MacCuish, Jim Bletsas
Operation Alphabet is the story of a little boy called Charlie Foxtrot. This entertaining and delightfully illustrated caper is an ideal way to introduce young children to the wonder of words and the magic of reading. Charlie has just started school...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/09/2011
Tony Bradman
A wonderful celebration of a boy who is thought to be bad but is just... different! At school, Michael’s teachers despair of him. He is late, scruffy, cheeky and doesn’t listen. He loves reading and sums and science. But NOT the...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Books for Boys | Bookshelf Essentials | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009
Jeff Brown
Stanley is a perfectly ordinary little boy until an extra large notice board falls on top of him and makes him completely flat. Luckily, Stanley is of a cheerful disposition and he adapts readily to his new, flat self and...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Books for Boys | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2003
Alan McDonald
Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping in A&E after an accident with a door, forgetting his swimming trunks on a visit to Splash City, and proving that Know-All Nick doesn't actually...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Books for Boys | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/06/2011
Alan MacDonald
Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping of comic chaos! Join Bertie as he struggles to escape from the clutches of Angela Nicely, attempts to prove that anything Know-All Nick can do,...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Books for Boys | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2011
Marcus Sedgwick
Goth Froth for Early Readers. Cudweed wants a monkey for his birthday in this brand new story featuring some of the characters that have proved such a hit in the Raven Mysteries series for slightly older kids but Cudweed's is...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Books for Boys | Early Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2011
Jane Yolen
Join two little monsters in this new rhyming read-aloud from the beloved Jane Yolen about the snarfing, growling, hip-hopping way that monsters go to bed. Young children and parents alike will find much to identify with as they follow these...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/08/2011
Dr. Seuss
Classic and best-selling, the rhyming verse story of The Cat in the Hat remains as fresh as when it was first published. Arriving announced and uninvited the exuberant Cat shocks Sally and her brother with the total mayhem he causes....
Featured in: 5+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2003
Kelly Gerrard
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. New time travel series in appealing, witty, graphic novel format. Charlie follows his dog Bandit when he accidentally falls into a sinkhole transporting them to Ancient Rome. Searching for his dog...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Books for Boys | Books of the Month | Fascinating Facts | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2011
Matt And Dave
Two thoroughly horrible adventures that are sure to appeal to boys and girls. Yuck and Polly are brother and sister and their antics are enough to have every child clamouring for more; even the most reluctant of reader. For information...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2007
Mark Robinson
This is a terrific Cautionary Tale for mischievous kids demonstrating as it does that perhaps life’s not so great when spent solely in the pursuit of vileness And when two of the pupils of the University of Vile discover that...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/07/2010
Mini Grey
Hilarious action-packed new adventures for the intrepid Traction Man and his popular side-kick, Scrubbing Brush, in this fantastic sequel by prize-winning illustrator Mini Grey. After an intrepid exploration of the compost heap, Scrubbing Brush returns so dirty that the foolish adults put him in...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2009
Wiley Miller
A wonderful debut from an incredibly talented wordsmith and illustrator. Fans of The Wizard of Oz and James and the Giant Peach will love Basil and his erstwhile adventures. Basil is an ordinary boy living a very ordinary life in a lighthouse,...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2008
Sue Mongredien
Fun to read wizard school adventures for Oliver. The auditions for the school play go badly wrong from the beginning. Instead of being cast as a hero, Oliver lands the part of a troll! A gruesome forest troll who will...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/02/2008
John Grant
Littlenose is an absolutely delightful character for readers just starting out that will ensure they get hooked on reading. His irrepressible sense of adventure will strike a chord with every boy, particularly when he becomes a hero by...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2006
Mini Grey
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2011 With opening flaps and a final, magnificent picture which opens out completely, this is a wonderful illustrated version of a classic poem. Jim has everything he wants – delightfully tactile ‘slices of delicious...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Book Awards | Books for Boys
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2009
Francesca Simon
10 of Horrid Henry’s most dreadful deeds all in one wonderful volume, and perfect for every boy and girl aged 5+. Whether it’s sabotaging his parents’ dinner party, plotting revenge on everyone by writing his will or just generally being...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
Philip Ardagh
A great introduction for 5+ year olds to the well-known, and sometimes not so well- known, facts about dinosaurs. There are masses of facts about dinosaurs crammed into this attractively produced and entertainingly written information book. Henry, his dog Mothball...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Books for Boys | Fascinating Facts
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2009
Alan MacDonald
5+. Delightfully disgusting, these three stories about Bertie, a boy whose habits are far from clean, will delight emerging readers. As ever, Dirty Bertie is bursting with mad plans and crazy schemes all of which spell trouble for him and...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Books for Boys | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011































































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