What's the best "cars" book at first or second grade level?

Question

Any book about vehicles. Racing, driving, repairs, whatever. To motivate a young reader to read more. One who is obsessed with vehicles, and spends nearly all his time playing with toy cars, toy trucks, etc., drawing pictures of roads, watching NASCAR on TV, lining all his toy vehicles up to simulate heavy traffic, etc.

The problem is that he's not very motivated to spend a lot of time reading. He does sometimes, but not usually on his own. Usually he reads when he's with other kids who are reading, or when a parent wants him to read aloud. But he's not a bookworm. I want books that can motivate him to become a bookworm. That's why they have to be about vehicles and/or roads and/or racing and/or other related subjects that would fit in with his vehicle obsession.

Answer 1

I bought 'For Boys Only The Biggest Baddest Book Ever" by Marc Aronson and Hp Newquist.

It has a lot of trivia and info geared to get boys reading. The first 2 pages are titles Super Cars. There are odd and little known facts about the coolest cars out there. My son LOVES this book. I bought it when he was in the 2nd grade.

Answer 2

My son is the same, the problem is not the type of book but rather the fact thats its actually a "book" some kids are more technically minded and would rather learn things hands on than read about it.

So we get our son, kids magazines, they have little stories in there sometimes, we also bought him a joke book he loves and also books about bugs, spiders etc.

If we ever buy anything that has an instruction manual, we then get him to read that as we put the object together.

The other thing that helped was finding out that a good friend of his at school enjoyed reading the "Geronimo Stilton" books and now they read them and swop them, its about a mouse that goes on adventures and there's about 50 books in the series.

We also get him the auto trader magazine.

I have also got him to read the roald dahl books by reading them to him, even though he was 8 at the time, we found james and the giant peach and I would read (with all the funny accents) just for half an hour each night until he was hooked on the story, then I made myself suddenly "unavailable" to read to him and so he had to read it finished himself to find out how it ended.

Hope this helps