What are your 5-7 year olds reading at the moment?

Ds2 is 6, just discovered Roald Dahl and is reading The BFG at the moment. Still likes picture books too.

Dd is 6.5 and is working her way through all of the Daisy books by Kes Gray. She's just read all of the Horrid Henry Early Readers available still the library.

Any books on Guinea Pigs always gets picked up and read and she is driving us crazy with the Annoying Orange joke book.

DS has just turned 6. He loves the lighthouse keeper books at the moment. They are all picture books, and some are much more detailed and lengthier than others. He also still loves the little ted train books and mrs pepperpot books. And all octonauts books.

I read to him every night. At least one book, usually two. He also reads to me every night, but only his school book which is an ORT biff chip and kipper book.

Dd is nearly 5. She likes having picture books or traditional fairy stories read to her. Try as I might I can't get her into listening to chapter books yet as she likes to get to the end of a story in one go. We did have a lovely day reading George's Marvellous Medicine in one sitting a couple of months ago!

She is just starting to get the hang of reading and likes the Julia Donaldson songbirds phonics books alongside her school reading scheme books.

Our 5yr old is a creature of habit!

We rotate from the same 20 or so books, he's loving where's wally (has a competition with dh!) He loves the biff, chip & kipper box set, he still enjoys picture rich books, current favourite is An Itch to scratch about an itchy gorilla but the big change is that we've just started the roald Dahl box set! Reading the twits, which is going down a treat & he remembers the story so far, from the night before

Puzzle books are a firm and repeated favourite. I wish there were more of them.

My 6 year old will only read non fiction books.

Anything about space, animals, science, dinosaurs, countries, vehicles etc.

He's an utter geek!

Astrosaurs and Beast Quest are favourites with 6yo DS at the moment bu also listening to Stig of the Dump and How to be a Pirate on CD.

6yo ds year 1
Us borne encyclopaedia
Vision Football book of facts
Ronald Dahl books
Judy moody books
Sally Gardner eg boy with the lightening feet
Mr majeika
Mr gum series

He reads brilliantly and doesn't really like to be read to anymore, preferring to read independently but we sometimes alternate chapters of his school books.

DD age 5 is reading mainly chapter books but can't read them in her head yet. My naughty little sister, Hughie Higgins etc.

5 year old loving Paper Dolls, Dogger and Annie Rose (beginning to read pages herself, lovely)

7 year old loving Clarence Bean, Mallory Towers and some Roald Dahl

Oh and she's also reading the Usborne See Inside Ancient Egypt as it's their school topic this term

My 7 yo DD is loving Mary's Hair by Eion Colfer ATM. We read Pinocchio - Michael Morpurgo version together which she liked last week.

Chris Riddell is a big fave, as is Neil Gaiman, I read these to her - the Ottoline series, Fortunately the Milk, Goth Girl.

She also has read Snug by Michael Morpurgo and The Smallest Girl Ever by Sally Gardner in the last month.

DS(5.5) would read Biff, Chip et all on a loop if I'd let him! Also likes his ORT "My Chapter Books Collection", and Usborne fact books (e.g. Space facts), but is also happy to pick up picture books (Julia Donaldson, Eric Carle, the Ahlbergs etc) and read them (ostensibly to his younger siblings). He has an Usborne child's encyclopaedia which he can often be found curled up reading.

He also likes Flat Stanley, although we alternate between him reading this alone and my reading it to him, Pippi Longstocking (Astid Lindgren), the easier Roald Dahl books, the "younger" Sally Gardner books, Dick King Smith, some Enid Blyton (mostly I read these to him - he can just about cope with reading the words, but I think would struggle with the meaning if he had to concentrate so much on the process). And he loves silly poetry-type books - Edward Lear, Spike Milligan, Quentin Blake etc.

DS is 7 next month. He is mostly reading joke books (Horrid Henry and Angry Birds), non-fiction car books, annuals (Top Gear/Dr Who) and dipping into a primary atlas. He's bringing short chapter books home from school but much prefers non-fiction.

5yo- reading has just clicked for him- he's reading anything he can get his hands on:
Horrid Henry
Claude books
Tintin (often asks me what words are, let alone their meanings!)
Brambley Hedge
Lotta (Astrid Lindgren)
Joke books (interminably!)

School send him home with Floppy's phonics

My 6 year old reads Any Roald Dahl, Diary of a Wimpy kid books but also enjoys reading his old picture books like the gruffalo etc

He read Harry potter but had enough after the forst book, unlike his 8 year old brother who will read them and read them.

My 7yo is reading Roald Dahl, the rainbow fairies and a one direction book!
The 5yo is into anything to do with animals: a national geographic animal facts book and animal atlas are his current favourites.
Oh, and 5001 disgusting jokes.....

Just turned 5YO reads the school readers (Magic Key) alone and is still having picture books read to her. The Gruffalo has returned as a favourite.

My 4 and a half year old gets read picture books - we've just done the Gruffalo and Roberta and Me.

7yo DS gets them too but mainly because she does. DH reads chapter books to them both - just finished Gulliver's Travels. DS reads things like Horrid Henry or his Lego encyclopedia thing when he's reading alone.

Me and my 6yo are enjoying Roald Dahl together. I read most of it and she reads some pages.

My 7 year old has taken on his brother's Penny Dreadful and Horrid Henry books.

Also the Aurora books by Anne Vestly.

He still likes toddler's books though, like Duck in the Truck, Superworm, and The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew it was None of His Business.

I love that last book

Dd doesn't read herself "for pleasure" yet, she's 6- she has been working through a reading scheme at home (doesn't go to school yet, as we are outside Uk.) She does like looking at familiar picture books and trying to read them.

We read chapter books at bedtime, usually. She also really enjoys poetry, which surprised me somewhat.

My DD is 5, in Y1. If she is reading on her own, she'll usually choose picture books. When reading to me and for bedtime stories we do early chapter books, such as Rainbow Fairies and similar. X