I was rooting in the attic the other day and pulled out a Chip Hilton book I’d put away for safe keeping. Actually, somewhere in the back of my mind, I thought my kids would want to read this chapter book series that gave me so much pleasure. When they were “of age” I pulled a book or two out, and my kids laughed at the characters and the stories – in the way that kids like to laugh at things gone by that don’t express their current reality.

So it’s pretty clear to me that kids chapter books are typically “of their time” and that they fade away when their time passes.

This isn’t a profound observation – just one that I mention in passing, because even a series like the Goosebump chapter book series which my daughter read less than 15 years ago – which seems kind of timeless to me, seems to have passed it’s prime. I see it languishing on the shelves at book sales and yard sales now. Kids are “hungry” for the next big thing and the next big thing. I remember that feeling when I was a kid.

It’s funny, in that regard, our children’s voracious appetites for the new and the unique experience makes them the true engines of the American economy.

This is a lesson well worth learning as a parent. If you want to entice your child to read, you should be looking for the next thing that they are interested – the cool, unique, new and different thing that will let them keep pace with their peers. It will do you no good to protest that this series or that chapter book series would be of great interest to them if only they would give it a try. For kids, at times the patina of age is the kiss of death.

The DaVinchy Chapter Book Series is an ebook chapter book series. This is new and different. Kids love their computers and their colorful fun experience with them – especially with computer games. We give away a free ebook, a chapter ebook. It is Book 1 in the series, entitled Cat’s Claw. It’s a full and complete book – in every sense of the word. Click on Free Book above and give your kids a fun reading experience that is cutting edge.