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School-age kids love books in series; they’re one of the most popular shelves in the library. Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid Greg Heffley, Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants, Lincoln Peirce’s Big Nate, and Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House team continue to be popular characters year after year. But also year after year wonderful new characters appear in bookstores and on library shelves, characters that become friends whose adventures children want to follow. I asked Ryan, the third grader in our family, for some help in choosing some new series that he thought would be fun to read. Here are some good ones, both fiction and nonfiction, all ongoing and all with illustrations, for early readers in grades K–3.
Elephant and Piggie by Mo Willems: This existential duo has been making kids laugh since 2007. They are true-blue friends who have wacky adventures, and we’ve enjoyed reading them together. Ryan gives them an A+ for kids who are just learning to read.
Elephant and Piggie Books by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books for Children) Grades K–1.
Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold. Fly Guy, a.k.a. “Buzz,” is an old friend to many beginning readers. Now Buzz finds a new role in a series of nonfiction books with colorful photos on topics for kids who just want ...