Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14
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Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14
#2Hi HN, Bookvine.io helps find age appropriate books for kids, with links to get it from Amazon or your local county library (limited to US for now). This was created by my 13yr old son who is an avid reader. I used to spend hours trying to get the right books for him to read and then get it from local county library or Amazon. He wanted to create this site from the books that he has read - to help others in a similar situation.
He used Webflow to create the site (I am a software engineer and guided him thru the process and some custom JS coding that was required) More about the story in the About Page. We would love some feedback or suggestions, to help improve the website. (there are no ads/no sign up/no monetary benefit etc) There are almost 300 books, along with reviews and recommendations - categorised by age - to make it easier for parents and kids to pick the next book to read easily.
Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14
#3Hi HN, Bookvine.io helps find age appropriate books for kids, with links to get it from Amazon or your local county library (limited to US for now). This was created by my 13yr old son who is an avid reader. I used to spend hours trying to get the right books for him to read and then get it from local county library or Amazon. He wanted to create this site from the books that he has read - to help others in a similar…
This is fantastic. Thanks so much to your son for curating this list and creating the site. We will start working our way through these recommendations.
Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14
#4Well done, this is great. I’ve already sent my wife a link to it. We are mostly through the original magic treehouse series and we need a new book series to read to our 4 year old. Amazon search is a wasteland for this sort of thing.
Let’s talk SEO. You need pages like this:
books-for-6-year-olds
books-for-7-year-olds
Etc
We have a site crontab.guru and you would not believe the traffic we get on our “every n minutes” pages. Long tail!
One more.. in your book pages I would change /series/ to /review/
Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14
#5Another good resource -- https://hub.lexile.com/
Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14
#6Well done, this is great. I’ve already sent my wife a link to it. We are mostly through the original magic treehouse series and we need a new book series to read to our 4 year old. Amazon search is a wasteland for this sort of thing. Let’s talk SEO. You need pages like this: books-for-6-year-olds books-for-7-year-olds Etc We have a site crontab.guru and you would not believe the traffic we get on our “every n minutes…
Thanks a lot for the feedback and suggestions. Hope you find the site it useful. Totally agree with you, SEO is definitely an area to focus on so we can get organic search traffic.
btw - good fun series to pick up post Magic treehouse would be - Press Start, geronimo stilton/Thea stilton and Dogman to name a few.
Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14
#7Fantastic, bookmarked. I would love to see book suggestions for younger kids too
Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14
#8Thanks! Just get to know the "Press Start" series from your website and my 6-year-old son will definitely love it!
Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14
#9This is a difficult problem to solve for some kids, because there are at least two dimensions to consider:
- language difficulty (which is what lexile aims to measure)
- how appropriate the topic is
My 5.5yo son is decoding words at about 4th grade level (based on an informal 'San Diego Quick Assessment'). But he's limited in his reading by:
- his life experience and existing knowledge, which both affect comprehension
- his willingness to read books that have few pictures (he doesn't like books that have 10 pages between pictures)
It's hard to find books that are age-appropriate (based on topic and maybe format) but also have challenging language (vocabulary, grammar).
Re: Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14
#10This is a difficult problem to solve for some kids, because there are at least two dimensions to consider: - language difficulty (which is what lexile aims to measure) - how appropriate the topic is My 5.5yo son is decoding words at about 4th grade level (based on an informal 'San Diego Quick Assessment'). But he's limited in his reading by: - his life experience and existing knowledge, which both affect comprehensio…
Totally agree with you on all the points. As with most recommendations - YMMV.
This is just to provide a guideline/reference. The way I recommend seeing this list is - say your kid likes "The Penderwicks" then..."hey are few other books that are similar to The Penderwicks"