If your kids are reading ANYTHING (well, within reason) on their own, it's a good thing. Cheesy Scholastic books. Comics. "The Day My Butt Went Psycho." Whatever.

Keep books available. Read to them as often as they'll stand for it. They'll find something they like eventually. Hey, maybe it won't be your favorite (I haven't gotten EITHER of my kids to pick books off my extensive SF shelf!) but it will be something.

My kids have worked their way through Animorphs, Goosebumps, and things of that sort. They've also worked their way through Tolkein and others.

My shelves have classic children's literature, (an almost complete Mushroom Planet set--most out of print for some unknowable reason), Shakespeare, Dr. Dolittle, Mary Poppins, Bambi and others (I consider it a matter of honor to keep the REAL stories available. God forbid that when someone mentions Dr. Doolittle, they think of Eddie Murphy instead of a chubby little Englishman.) I have almost ALL the Oz books (thanks, Judy-Lynn Del Rey), and a lot of other things. Some my kids have read. Most of it they haven't. *sigh* They have their own tastes, and that's good too.

The first night your kid sneaks his light back on after bedtime to read some more, it's time to sneak downstairs and do the end-zone dance in your living room. YES!

But looking at my shelf, I'm just beginning to realize what a freakishly voracious reader I must have been as a kid.