Top 10 laugh-out-loud reads for 5-8-year-olds

Joanna Nadin is a bestselling British author of middle grade, teen and YA fiction, a speechwriter, and a former Special Advisor to the Prime Minister.

Nadin writes the Penny Dreadful series for younger readers. Her latest YA novel is Paradise.

One of ten top laugh-out-loud reads for 5-8-year-olds the author named at the Guardian:

The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr Seuss

I first read these aged five; I first read them to my daughter aged one; we both still read them today aged nine, and a lot more. The Sneetches is a wonderfully framed lesson in difference and tolerance, but my favourite is the cautionary tale of Mrs McCave, who had 23 sons, and she named them all Dave.

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My Book, The Movie: Paradise.

--Marshal Zeringue