Fantastic Action-Packed Adventure Books for Kids

Get your children reading with an exciting adventure book curated by the review team at Actionlu.

Press Start! Game Over, Super Rabbit Boy! by Thomas Flintham (ages 5 – 7)

In a video game where evil King Viking and his robot army are trying to ruin everyone’s fun, Super Rabbit Boy must level up to save the town. Colorful cartoons show the pixelated game with simple text.

Battle Bugs #1: The Lizard War by Jack Patton (ages 6 – 8)

Max LOVES bugs — but he never expects to become one! Not that he’s a bug, he decides to help his new bug friends fight the invading lizards who want the bug’s island. Adventure, battles, and bugs make this a fun first read in a new early chapter book series.

Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot The Voodoo Vultures from Venus by Dav Pilkey, illustrated by Dan Santat (ages 6 – 8)

Ricky and his best friend, Might Robot, spend action-packed days trying to save the world and get their chores done. Full-color illustrations make this enticing series even more interesting to read.

Secret Agent, Jack Stalwart by Elizabeth Singer Hunt (ages 6 – 9)

In this action-packed new series, nine-year-old secret agent Jack Stalwart travels the globe searching for his missing older brother Max while solving international crimes for the Global Protection Force.

Ferno the Fire Dragon (Beast Quest #1) by Adam Blade (ages 7 – 9)

This is a short, early chapter book about a young boy, Tom, who gets to go on a quest just like his father before him. Tom’s quest is to free a dragon from an enchanted collar, making him destroy the kingdom. It’s a decent story –short, adventurous, and features a kid-hero. What could be better than that!?

Catnapped! Puppy Pirates by Erin Soderbergh (ages 6 – 8)

Calling all dog lovers! Read about the most awesome pirate puppies who are now prisoners on the pirate kitten’s ship with no escape due to an unfortunate prank. This is a charming and funny rollicking adventure and #3 in the new Puppy Pirate series.

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The Iron Giant: A Sleepy Classic

Few lists of the best animated movies of all time would be complete without 1999’s Iron Giant. The Warner Bros feature, which marked the directorial debut of Brad Bird, was based on Ted Hughes’s 1968 novel The Iron Man and tells the story of a young boy named Hogarth Hughes. Hogarth, who is growing up in the height of the Cold War, finds and befriends a giant mechanical robot who fell to earth from outer space. The US military, suspecting the robot to be of Russian origin, set out to destroy him, with only Hogarth and a beatnik artist named Kent Mansley standing in their way.

Featuring the voices of Vin Diesel (as the Iron Giant), Eli Marienthal, Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Christopher McDonald and John Mahoney, the film had all the making of an instant classic and no shortage of hype surrounding its release. The box office numbers proved otherwise, however. On a staggering budget of $70-80 million, the film only managed to gross $20 million in the US and $31 million worldwide, making it a huge flop for Warner Bros.

Audiences, however, didn’t turn their attention away from the film outright. Although its initial release attracted few to the cinema, critics praised the film’s innovative mix of computer and traditional animation, not to mention its captivating storyline. Slowly but surely audiences sought out the film and it developed a cult following, eventually leading to a 2015 remastered theatrical re-release.

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