Help with recommendations please!

katey · Help with recommendations please!

My Mum (who is 6

had NEVER read a book cover to cover until the end of last year

I get my reading genes from my Dad and my Gran. Anyway, her first book was Tuesdays with Morrie,which she loved, and she has just finished The Five People you Meet in Heaven which she also really enjoyed.

Can you think of anything similar that I can give her next? She says she likes the messages in them and that they are thought provoking but not wordy. My immediate thought was Paulo Coehlo, but I think it may be too 'literary' for her.

jobar

She may enjoy The Invitation ~ Orion Mountain Dreamer...
this is a short read based on her poem but quite profound in places...

katey

Thanks Jo, I will keep an eye out for it

Karen

There's a cool little tool on the Love Reading website where you can look up authors for new authors who are similar. When you put Mitch Albom in there it comes up with the following:
Paulo Coelho
Audrey Niffenegger
Yann Martel
Diana Cooper

Another tip might be to try some of the teenage literature? Some of it is very good and can be easier going - I got my husband into reading by suggesting he read some of my teenage sons' favourites and then it took off from there. Can't really suggest any particular titles, except perhaps the Twilight series, since my boys were more into the Garth Nix and Anthony Horowitz at the time and they don't really seem to fit with what your Mum would need.

I also have a copy of Staff Required which Gwen sent me. I still need to post a review about that, but that has quite a spiritual aspect to it that your Mum might like. I am more than happy to send it to you once I have posted a review.

charlottestar

Just thinking of what Karen says above your mum might like Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. It's a teenage novel about the afterlife but I read it and thought it was great and there's another one I was thinking of but I've completely forgotten it so I'll have to get back to you!

I remembered the other one was called The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier which is similar to Elsewhere in that it's about the afterlife. It sounds a bit morbid recommending 2 books about the dead but they're really not miserable!