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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.

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We’ve created a special category of books, broken down by age range, which our experts think will be enjoyed enormously by boys.

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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.speed freaks

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


Monster and Chips
Monster and Chips
David O'Connell
April 2013 Debut of the Month   Fans of The Wimpy Kid will love this delightfully disgusting and dangerous story about what happens when Joe sets out to buy some chips from McGreasy’s takeaway. Instead of finding the takeaway, Joe meets...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/02/2013
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Superfrog and the Big Stink
Superfrog and the Big Stink
Michael Foreman
February 2013  Debut of the Month A delightful series of detailed pictures tell the eco-tale of Frank the Superfrog who is determined to prevent the rubbish building up in his favourite pond.  He bounds into action using a unique form of...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/02/2013
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March of the Armoured Beasts
March of the Armoured Beasts
Rex Stone
Exciting adventures in this easy to read series about two boys and the dangerous dinosaurs they encounter – especially the deadly Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jamie’s dad is opening a dinosaur museum in Dinosaur Cove. Jamie expects to find some fossils but...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2013
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Fluff the Farting Fish
Fluff the Farting Fish
Michael Rosen
Perfect for every child who’s just beginning to read alone, this hilarious tale is a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune and the possible resulting disasters. Elvie longs for a dog but gets a goldfish instead! Undeterred from following...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2013
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Charge of the Three Horned Monster
Charge of the Three Horned Monster
Rex Stone
Exciting adventures in this easy to read series about two boys and the dangerous dinosaurs they encounter – especially the deadly Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jamie’s dad is opening a dinosaur museum in Dinosaur Cove. Jamie expects to find some fossils but...
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Big Book of Big Tractors
Big Book of Big Tractors
Lisa Jane Gillespie
Open the giant fold-out pages of this bright, friendly book to discover some of the biggest and most amazing tractors ever built. From huge harvesting machines and monster polar vehicles, to the world’s largest tractor.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2013
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Attack of the Lizard King
Attack of the Lizard King
Rex Stone
Exciting adventures in this easy to read series about two boys and the dangerous dinosaurs they encounter – especially the deadly Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jamie’s dad is opening a dinosaur museum in Dinosaur Cove. Jamie expects to find some fossils but...
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A Cretaceous Survival Guide
A Cretaceous Survival Guide
Rex Stone
Are you ready for the Dinosaur Cove Cretaceous Survival Guide? It's jam-packed full of fascinating dinosaur facts, it's bursting at the seams with fantastic puzzles to solve, and it's overflowing with great activities to do...such as creating your own volcano...
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We're Going to Build a Dam
We're Going to Build a Dam
Gillian McClure
With fluid, engaging line and watercolour illustrations, Gillian McClure’ s  story simple but dramatic story captures the spontaneity of two small boys working and playing together on the beach. And in the visual narrative readers can enjoy following the antics...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/03/2013
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Toothy!
Toothy!
Alan MacDonald
Dirty Bertie, the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits, returns for another helping of comic chaos in the 19th book of this successful series.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2013
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The Wind in the Wallows
The Wind in the Wallows
Jeanne Willis
A side-splitting look at a topic every child knows and giggles about - noisy bottoms! - cheeky, quirky and outrageous humour from this bestselling team. Boys in particular will love this but beware parents they may decide to wallow around...
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The Man Who Wore All His Clothes
The Man Who Wore All His Clothes
Allan Ahlberg
Mr Gaskitt does a strange thing one day; he puts on all his clothes right on top of each other. Going out dressed like that makes Mr Gaskitt look very different and it's lucky that he does when he meets...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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The Haunted House of Buffin Street
The Haunted House of Buffin Street
Francesca Simon
An easy-to-read adventure with a delightfully entertaining story.  Fang and Honey,  just two of the good friends who live in Buffin Street, are set to move. Their owners want a house with a garden. What on earth can the animals...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 13/09/2012
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The Disgusting Sandwich
The Disgusting Sandwich
Gareth Edwards
There’s a great joke running right through this witty picture book to the excellent punch line. Badger is always hungry and now his tummy is rumbling! He so badly wants the fresh white bread and peanut butter sandwich which he...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2013
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Stuart The Bug Eating Man
Stuart The Bug Eating Man
Calvin Innes
Even though Stuart's talent is a strange (and gross) one, he uses it to his advantage, works hard and becomes very successful. The book is filled with humorous and disgusting illustrations, lots of strange and funny bugs and has as...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/12/2012
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Nuddy Ned
Nuddy Ned
Kes Gray
Ned’s extreme delight in having no clothes on is wickedly captured in this story of a little boy who runs around everywhere with nothing on at all. Young readers will love Ned’s nude prancing and especially lifting the provocatively placed...
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No More Kisses for Bernard
No More Kisses for Bernard
Niki Daly
Award-winning Niki Daly is brilliant at capturing Bernard’s horror at his aunt’s passion to kiss him! Bernard has four equally adoring aunts so he has to think up a great many cunning plans to avoid being kissed. This is a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/05/2011
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Mega Mash-up: Secret Agents v Giant Slugs in the Jungle
Mega Mash-up: Secret Agents v Giant Slugs in the Jungle
Nikalas Catlow, Tim Wesson
Draw your own adventure! The secret agents and the giant slugs are fighting it out in the jungle.  It’s exciting, it’s funny and it’s disgusting! Can you the reader help them to finish it off? There are lots of creative...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2012
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Jack's Mega Machines: The Rocket Racing Car
Jack's Mega Machines: The Rocket Racing Car
Alison Ritchie
Machine-mad Jack is the best mechanic for miles around…Happily, he settles down to mend a turbo-charged racing car. When all is fixed, Jack sets off on a wonderful space adventure at the wheel of his super machine. Machine-mad readers can...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/08/2012
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How Dinosaurs Really Work
How Dinosaurs Really Work
Alan Snow
Fact and fiction and lots of jokes about all things to do with dinosaurs are cleverly melded together in this attractive picture book format which makes finding out fun and easy. Alan Snow’s brilliant illustrations are centred around delightful cross-sections...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/03/2013
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Farty Fred
Farty Fred
Sam Lloyd
Amazing novelty book with whoopee cushion that makes a comedy farting sound. Written and illustrated by much-loved novelty book author, Sam Lloyd. A fun gift book.
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Format: Board book - Released: 07/03/2013
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Dog's Dinner (Jack Splat)
Dog's Dinner (Jack Splat)
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...
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Dinosaur Zoom!
Dinosaur Zoom!
Penny Dale
Perfect for all machine-mad dinosaur lovers! Big dinosaurs and even bigger machines are on the move in this lively, action-packed picture book with a lovely surprise ending.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2012
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Dinosaur Farm
Dinosaur Farm
Frann Preston-Gannon
A delightful farming story – with a difference! Like all farmers, this farmer is busy all day long – feeding the animals, cleaning up after them and even cleaning them. That’s a pretty big job as the animals in question...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 21/03/2013
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Vulgar the Viking and the Rock Cake Raiders
Vulgar the Viking and the Rock Cake Raiders
Odin Redbeard
Revolting – in the very best way – this is a rollickingly good adventure. Vulgar the Viking finds his home life in the town of Blubber exceptionally boring. If only things were like they used to be in the good...
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Superfly Pest  (Jack Splat)
Superfly Pest (Jack Splat)
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2011
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Operation Alphabet
Operation Alphabet
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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 19/09/2011
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Ninja Meerkats 4 : Hollywood Showdown
Ninja Meerkats 4 : Hollywood Showdown
Gareth P. Jones
The author has just been named as winner of the Blue Peter Book Award for 2012. Meerkats are everywhere in films and commercials at the moment so it seems quite normal for a terrific little series to be created for...
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Cudweed's Birthday (Early Reader)
Cudweed's Birthday (Early Reader)
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2011
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Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters
Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters
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...
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A Roman Rescue (Charlie and Bandit Adventures)
A Roman Rescue (Charlie and Bandit Adventures)
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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2011
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The Diggers are Coming!
The Diggers are Coming!
Susan Steggall
November 2012 Book of the Month   Machine-mad readers will love this dramatic picture book which brings to life all the action and especially the noise of a building site. Susan Steggall’s brilliantly created 3D collage illustrations of wreckers wrecking and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/2012
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