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Con­fes­sion: I was hor­ri­ble at read­ing to my chil­dren when they were tiny guys. I couldn’t get them to sit still on my lap so why fight it? Once they got to about 4, they were ready and so was I. I started read­ing to them every night before going to bed. My youngest son deals with night­mares a lot but I noticed when I would read excit­ing sto­ries to him before he fell asleep, the night­mares stayed away.

So now they’re 6 and 10 and we still read almost every night before they drift off to sleep. We’ve moved from cute lit­tle books to adven­ture series. Some of our favorites — heavy on the ‘our’ because my hus­band and I are pretty much imma­ture like that:

Artemis Fowl
H.I.V.E
39 clues
The Keys to the Kingdom

This list is obvi­ously for kid­dos who are very much into super cool fights, sav­ing the day and all that jazz.

What series would you add to this list? We’re always look­ing for some­thing new.

This week Works For Me Wednes­day is over at Rocks In My Dryer.