What aft aftee Worst Witch & Harry Potter?

[BB8sm8]

For DD (7) & I to read together at night, she loved the Worst Witch series & loved the first Harry Potter, is desperate to move on to the next one but I don’t want to move through that series quickly as I feel it gets dark quite quickly. She basically loves magical schools! She loves animals too. Quite girly. Any suggestions?? 😁

[mariniere]

Goth Girl? Ottoline?

[sakura06]

I was about to suggest Ottoline too! DD and I are reading our third now. Really fun!

[00100001]

The 'dark' o fHP will wash over your 7 yo. read the second one to her, it's essentially the same story as the first.

[Isadora2007]

Witch Baby and me. By debi Gliori
There are three in the series I think.

Gobilino the witches cat

The little broomstick

[Ricekrispie22]

Children of Castle Rock
The Dragonfly Pool
The Secret of Platform 13
Books by Em Lynas
Witch Week
Murder Mosf Unladylike
Beswitched

[RhinestoneCowgirl]

Chrestomanci series from Diana Wynne Jones, start with Charmed Life. Not school stories but great magic.

[littlebillie]

The tree that sat down -Beverly Nichols

[Notaballetmum]

WItch wars series
Mine loved the Enid blyton school stories-naughtiest girl, Malory towers etc.

[Notaballetmum]

And I reckon you can get up to at least HP book 4 before they become too much

[strawberrypenguin]

We've read the first 3 Potter books with DS1 who is a similar age, he had no problems. Will wait a while before 4 though.

How to train your Dragon series is good.

[BlueChampagne]

Witchworld and sequels nosycrow.com/product/witchworld/
Archie Greene books ddeverest.com/

Second Ottoline and Goth Girl.

[abitlosthere]

The Goodly and Grave series has magic and animals (Smell the Cat is a favourite!)! Gorgeous illustrations too.

www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008183530/goodly-and-grave-in-a-bad-case-of-kidnap/

[abitlosthere]

Oh and if she likes school stroies this series is v popular:

www.bookdepository.com/Lost-Twin-Sophie-Cleverly/9780007589180?ref=pd_detail_1_sims_b_p2p_1

[Scatteredthoughtss]

Not magical schools, but a witch and a cat, I just read my seven year old Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh.

[Andtheresaw]

The Enchanted Wood. I know she's probably way above this level in reading but the language isn't too easy as it's a little old fashioned and the stories are charming.

[MerlinsScarf]

Have you tried the Amelia Fang series, or Nevermoor? There are new releases of both due out this month, I think (hopefully handy if you do like them).

[BlueChampagne]

Pure Dead Magic etc by Debi Gliori

[hels71]

My dd loves Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo.. Reckons it is much much better than Harry potter. She also adored the Chrestomanci books.