Take Your Summer Reading on a New Adventure!
Reading Time: 2 min
Adventure stories written for children have been popular since the early 19th century. These books, filled with twists and turns and heroic adventures, have the ability to create cherished childhood memories that last a lifetime. Children’s adventure stories began in the 19th century during a time when there was little in the form of entertainment. Adventure stories quickly became popular among young readers, which helped it grow the genre to what we know it to be today. Reading adventure books for the sheer excitement and wonder they bring to young imaginations can help foster a life-long love of reading.
Over the last two centuries, writers have created adventure classics that have withstood the test of time. Some of the earliest books include The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss (1812) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876). Later, classics such as J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan (1911) and Edgar Rice Burroughs’s The Land That Time Forgot (1918) sealed the fate of fantasy and adventure books as a must-have among young readers around the world.
Today, children’s adventure books are among the most popular at bookstores and libraries. They take young readers to faraway places, unknown ocean depths, or blasting-off into space. There is no limit to where a book can take a child’s imagination, so let them fly! Fostering a love for reading begins with books that pique the child’s interest. If adventure is what they love, then parents and caregivers can help grow that admiration by making weekly trips to the library to explore new titles and adventures.
If digital reading is your child’s preference, then Lou Adventures is the perfect reading app to explore. An online adventure is a great way to keep kids immersed in a virtual story while sharpening their reading comprehension & fluency skills. Lou, the dog, guides the child through the story and takes them on a virtual adventure. So much of what children love about classic adventure books can be found in the Lou Adventures reading app. They will have so much fun they will forget they are learning new reading skills.
