Secondhand Chapter Book (Age 6-9) Bargain Book Box SP4275

Secondhand Chapter Book (Age 6-9) Bargain Book Box SP4275

Eighteen funny, heavily illustrated chapter books: five Captain Underpants, three WeirDos, three Billie B Browns including a six-in-one mystery volume, plus rescue dogs, a flying unicorn and a real war dog. A box for a child who has just started reading alone and wants to laugh while doing it.

1. Grover McBane Rescue Dog: Grover Finds a Home — Claire Garth — Grover is a scruffy border collie who lands in a Sydney dogs’ home and has to learn to trust people again. Based on a real rescue dog, with drawings by Johannes Leak. Shortlisted for the Readings Children’s Book Prize.
2. The Adventures of Captain Underpants — Dav Pilkey — George and Harold hypnotise their mean principal, and he becomes a superhero who fights crime in his underpants. The first epic novel, and the book that got a generation of boys reading.
3. Pearl: The Flying Unicorn — Sally Odgers & Adele K. Thomas — Pearl’s magic never does what she means it to, and now she wants to fly. Her friends Olive the ogre and Tweet the firebird are along for the crash landings.
4. WeirDo 8: Really Weird! — Anh Do — Weir Do’s family is weird enough, and now there is a chicken on his head. Jokes on every page, and short enough to finish in a sitting.
5. WeirDo 9: Spooky Weird! — Anh Do — Halloween at the Do house, with a ghost that may be a bedsheet. The spooky one, and never scary.
6. WeirDo 10: Messy Weird! — Anh Do — A school clean-up goes exactly as badly as the title suggests. Book ten of the series.
7. Tilda Teaches Animal Care — Amy Adeney — Tilda appoints herself teacher on a subject she loves, with a dog under one arm and a parrot on the other. Sally Rippin calls it brilliant on the cover.
8. The All New Captain Underpants Extra-Crunchy Book o’ Fun 2 — Dav Pilkey — Comics, puzzles, jokes, Flip-O-Ramas and instructions for drawing the characters. An activity book, so check it before gifting.
9. Billie B Mysteries: The Big Book of Mystery — Sally Rippin — Six books in one: Billie, Jack, Alex and Mika form the Secret Mystery Club and solve a case per book. The step up from Billie B Brown, and good value at this size.
10. Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 2: The Revenge of the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers — Dav Pilkey — Three giant robotic bogeys chase George and Harold across town. The seventh epic novel, and as disgusting as promised.
11. Fairy vs Wizard — Jenny McLachlan — Danny’s tiny, rude fairy Stink is back, and this time a wizard turns up at school. Drawn on every page, and “stinkingly brilliant” according to Maz Evans.
12. Zooniverse: The Speedy Spidersaurus — Nova Weetman — Noah and Blue look after a zoo of mixed-up creatures, and the half-spider, half-dinosaur one has escaped. Illustrated by Chris Kennett.
13. Billie B Brown: The Bully Buster — Sally Rippin — Someone at school is being mean, and Billie has to work out how to stand up to them. Big print, fifty pages, and a problem every six-year-old knows.
14. Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman — Dav Pilkey — The boys hypnotise their teacher Ms Ribble, and it goes wrong: she becomes a villain with robot arms. The fifth epic novel.
15. Oscar’s Lonely Christmas — Holly Webb — Oscar is a Dalmatian puppy in a house too busy with Christmas to notice him. Webb’s puppy books are gentle, a little sad, and end well.
16. Billie B Brown: The Honey Bees — Sally Rippin — Billie and a hive of bees, in the tenth-anniversary edition. One small adventure, told in short sentences.
17. Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets — Dav Pilkey — The school invention convention produces an army of man-eating toilets. The second epic novel, and many readers’ favourite.
18. G.I. Dogs: Judy, Prisoner of War — Laurie Calkhoven — Judy was a real Royal Navy ship’s dog who survived a sinking and a Japanese prison camp, the only dog registered as a prisoner of war. Told in her own voice.