Kid’s hilarious book recommendation goes viral

Many book worms have a particular author or novel they passionately swear by. However, you’ll never feel as strongly about a book as one six-year-old did.

In what has become an internet sensation, British kid James gave a hilarious and spirited book recommendation for his favourite story, There’s a Dragon at My School by Jenny Tyler and Philip Hawthorn.

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When asked in a homework question if he would recommend his favourite book, adorable James went on the defensive:

“No,” the adamant youngster wrote.

“It’s my favourite and I don’t want anyone else to have it,” he declared.

The six-year-old’s mother Laura from Cheshire, posted a picture of her son’s response to Twitter and the social media sphere went wild.

Garnering over 30,000 likes, Twitter users couldn’t get enough of the hilarious recommendation with most comments sympathising with the young boy’s passion for his book.

“This is so sweet and I completely understand where he's coming from,” one user responded.

“I feel this way about music all the time!” another wrote.

In response to the attention received by the post, James’ mum opened up about how books are helping with his ADHD.

“Due to ADHD James usually doesn't sit still for more than a minute at a time, so he's very proud of himself for having read all 21 of the Ultimate Football Heroes books, since getting the 1st one at Christmas,” she wrote on Twitter.

Recently, Australian children’s reading expert and teacher Tracey Grice discussed the importance of helping kids to build an interest in books.

Grice explained how helping kids to build a ‘reading identity’ is important and how a common pitfall is to allow kids to become ‘serial readers’.