Agreed on Fellside. I liked it, but it wasn't quite as good as The Girl With All The Gifts. Well worth reading, though.
I finally got my youngest interested in Pippi! I loved those books, and my older kids still think fondly of them (the part in the first book where Pippi is making pancakes made my oldest daughter laugh until she threw up--lol), but LilMan would have none of it...until I caught him at a weak moment
He was tired and hot, right after a hike, and I picked up Pippi and started reading it aloud. It made him laugh a lot! I read until dinner, and then he finished it himself