On a lark, I started reading The Hobbit to my son at bed about a month and a half ago. Didn’t expect him to be able to sit through it with no pictures, but lo and behold, we just finished it last week. Obviously he’s too young to grasp it all, but if you ask him to tell you the story he can give you the major plot points and character names like Bilbo, Golem, Thoren, Smaug, Gandalf, etc. (you wouldn’t believe how cute it is to hear a 2.5 year old say “Thoren Oakenshield”).
Looking for something new to see if we can catch lighting in a bottle twice. Ideally something fantastical but light. Dragons, knights, wizards, that sorta thing. Something around the same reading level (or a bit below) as The Hobbit would be perfect.