Books for six-year-olds

[Monkey]

i am lacking inspiration for my six-year-old daughter's bedtime reading. Any ideas? I am looking for books with not too many words per page so we can take turns reading. Books we've liked recently: Tom gates, Maisie Hitchins, dinosaur cove, Ottoline. Thanks in advance.

[etta166]

My son really likes the dinosaur cove books too, and we've just moved on to the How to Train Your Dragon books. Also the old favourites like Roald Dahl...

[edanna]

Thanks for the tip about Maisie Hitchins - I hadn't heard of those. We like Oliver and the Seawigs and Cakes in Space and the Claude books.

[Waffo]

You could have a look at some of these perhaps?

http://theliteracytree.co.uk/media/downloads/Illustrated%20Early%20Novels%20List.pdf

[BeccaL]

Daisy and the trouble with ... books by Kes Gray are fun and not too long.

[Monkey]

Oh thank you, all. Lots of suggestions here, that's great.

[Anna M]

Cakes in Space - i have just read it with my six-year old son and his little brother listened too until he dozed off every night. The amount of text on the page varies a lot, it's heavily illustrated (almost if not every double page) it's a space adventure with a girl protagonist, kooky, lively and very funny.

[BellendenBear]

Mr Gum books are great too.

[hazelnunhead]

Yes to Mr Gum!

The Astrid Lindgren books are lovely, there are the Pippi Longstocking, Milo's kingdom etc.

vArjack is just brilliant. Two in the series, and I was as interested as my daughter!

[Renata Hamvas]

Amelia Jane series of books by Enid Blyton.

[Saffron]

Anna M Wrote:

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> Cakes in Space - i have just read it with my

> six-year old son and his little brother listened

> too until he dozed off every night. The amount of

> text on the page varies a lot, it's heavily

> illustrated (almost if not every double page) it's

> a space adventure with a girl protagonist, kooky,

> lively and very funny.

We read this too. It is VERY funny. My daughter is 5.5yrs. Mostly I read it to her, but also I would single out a few words or phrases for her to read. She did more reading on the pages with less text, or she read her favourite words and phrases on other pages.