As promised, here’s my list of the best under-100-pages chapter books I’ve read in the past months.
Be sure to check the Title index for 50 more great easy chapter books — some of my all-time favorites are already there!
I’ve tried to list these in a semblance of order from easiest (largest print, most space devoted to pictures) to most challenging (similar in difficulty to any chapter book but under 100 pages.)
Boris Gets a Lizard, written and illustrated by Andrew Joyner
published in 2011 by Scholastic
72 pages
The Boris books, coming to us out of Australia, are a complete delight. Colorful, energetic, friendly, heavily-illustrated, and perfectly suited to both boys and girls. Each one has a little craft project to go with the story. Click here to read more about this jaunty series.
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea, written and illustrated by Ben Clanton
published in 2016 by Tundra Books
64 pages
This graphic-novel style book is predominantly visual, loaded with cheer and energy. Its ocean-dwelling characters sparkle with personality and the text incorporates some jazzy puns. Short, snappy, silly, but with cool science facts and an appeal to imagination tossed in for good measure. It’ll be a hit with older beginning readers as well. Sequel coming.
Great post!
Thanks, Judy! Lots of great books that deserve to be found!
Bookmarking this page!
The chapter books I recently picked up are actually a little longer than I thought when I speculated last night if they might have made your list! Still curious though if you’ve read any of these 3: Olga da Polga by Michael Bond (there’s a gorgeous new illustrated edition out!) and two newer ones: Cora and the Crocodile by Laura Amy Schlitz & Brian Floca and My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz & Eva Eriksson. They are also illustrated (my weakness!) (And My Happy Life is from a Swedish author/illustrator duo too!)
Yes, when I went searching for these I realized how very thin a 100-page book is 🙂 I have read the titles you mentioned. My favorite of them is the Lagercrantz/Eriksson title. I have reviewed a couple of the books in this series. You can find the reviews by using the search bar on the blog or you can look in the Titles Index under Chapter Books for My Happy Life and My Heart is Happy. There are more…I just haven’t taken the time to keep up with them all. Very poignant and dear.
What a wonderful post! I’ve only read The Whipping Boy (ages ago in grade-school) and Basil of Baker Street (all in the series that our library had just a few years ago); summer reading, here we come! I just finished reading aloud to my daughter a 100-page cheater called The Ordinary Princess by MM Kaye. Here’s the lovely review that convinced me to read it: http://littlebookbigstory.com/the-ordinary-princess-mm-kaye/
Yes I love The Ordinary Princess. The copy I have is well over my 100 page limit, thus it didn’t make the cut. But it’s a great read!
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Thank you for this beautiful list. I was looking for chapterbooks of 50-100 pages. Your choice exactly fits my need. Though I have read many books under 100 pages, only two books were found in your list, which makes my further reading challenging. Thank you again.
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