You will have to read a couple in advance if you’re not familiar with the stories, but there are quite a few suitable for family entertainment in my opinion. It’s been a tradition, in our family, to read a Sherlock Holmes story on Twelfth Night around the Christmas tree every year since I can remember.
Sherlock Holmes is a brilliant detective in old London who solves all sorts of incredibly messed up and tricky crimes. He’s a bit blunt and odd, but his sidekick Watson makes up for it.
When your child is old enough, there is a good TV show set in London, keeping directly to the books, that brings the stories to colourful life. There is also Elementary which plays a little looser with the characters, having moved to a 2012 New York. In this, Sherlock Holmes is an ex drug addict with Joan Watson, his sober companion turned protégé.
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