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Books for 6 year old independent reader

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SatsukiKusakabe · 13/07/2020 20:55

My dd has just clicked with reading chapter books over this time in lockdown and has been ripping through the Sophie’s Adventures books by Dick King Smith. She’s quite sensitive and likes animal stories - she has Holly Webb and Animal magic books at bedtime but really likes following the girl character in the Sophie books. I’m not quite sure how we’re going to follow them!

Does anyone know of anything else like them?

Thanks

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Sleeprocks · 04/08/2020 20:33

Judy Moody, Marge in Charge. Julia Donaldson paperback series of Princess Mirror Belle. Judy Blume books eg freckles.
Monstrous Maude is by the same author as Wimpy Kid but much easier to read and less disjointed. Rainbow Fairy series.

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SatsukiKusakabe · 16/07/2020 16:57

These are great - also just thought that dd enjoyed the Polly and the Puffin books written by Jenny Colgan if that helps anyone else.

They are quite short with not very much text but lovely illustrations and have recipes in the back which she had a go at reading before she could read the rest of the book - cake is a great incentive!

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Chickoletta · 15/07/2020 19:59

The Pony Mad Princess series and Humphrey the Hamster.

MorbidMuch · 15/07/2020 19:39

I've just had another couple of ideas:

Dick King-Smith books like The Sheep-Pig (Babe) and the Hodgeheg.

The Rabbit and Bear books by Julian Gough and Jim Field.

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SatsukiKusakabe · 15/07/2020 10:28

@ “what’s a stickleback?”

Dd really likes the look of the Daisy books so that’s a definite I also think she’d like the Ramona series, Polly and a few others look great for a bit further down the line. We have got Charlotte’s Web which I was going to read with her as thought it might be a bit tricky - as well as sad - she is used to me crying at the sad parts in books and it tends to have the effect of making her laugh at me and neutralising it.

I’ve just seen that Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf is by Catherine Storr who wrote the wonderfully weird Marianne Dreams.

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ThroughThoroughThoughTough · 14/07/2020 10:13

I’d second Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf - lovely book, my 9yo has read the copy she’s had since she’s was 4 so much that it’s falling apart.

Badmemorieshouse · 14/07/2020 09:38

I just ordered a Daisy book for
My reluctant reader based on these recommendations!

ChaBishkoot · 14/07/2020 09:34

Lottie Lipton. About a girl who lives in the British Library and solves mysteries.

The Zoey and Sassafras series about a girl and her cat who use science to solve mysteries.

JamesTKirkcompatible · 14/07/2020 09:30

Beatrix Potter? I hate Beatrix Potter but my 5-year-old loves it. Be prepared to answer questions about archaic baking and laundry methods, though!

Mine used to listen to Beatrix P audio cds as they went to sleep. One night I heard frantic 5 year old calling. MUMMY!! MUMMY!! Raced up the stairs thinking accident, sickness etc. When I arrived she brightly asked me "Mummy! What is a stickleback?!"

BikeRunSki · 14/07/2020 09:09

I was going to suggest the Sophie books!
Similar, are the Ramona Quimby books by Beverley Cleary. I read them as a child, and dd(8) and I have just finished them.

They are American and the first book in the series was written in the late 1950s (the last in the 1990s), but other than a little vocabulary, they could be set anywhere and are not at all dated. Like Sophie, they are about a little girl growing up, seen through her eyes. They are charming, sweet and funny. Ramona is 4 in the first one and about 10 in the last one. They were a spin off from the “Henry and Ribsy” series by the same author.

They are surprisingly unknown in the UK, but you can get them secondhand on eBay it new in sets on Amazon.

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SatsukiKusakabe · 14/07/2020 08:52

Thank you for so many great ideas - I will sort through them all with her the Daisy ones look especially like they might be a winner.

She likes Wigglesbottom Primary and Naughty Little Sister and dips in and out of those.

stargirl that’s a great list I used to love Arabel and Mortimer and had completely forgotten them!

louise yes she’s not keen on Amelia Jane - she was too naughty and she found it quite stressful

She loves Beatrix Potter and has most of those. The Cherry Tree Farm one sound like they might be good.

noodieroodie exactly - 3 months of being told to go and look at books at least once a day has done the trick!

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Duchessofealing · 14/07/2020 08:51

Agree on Isadora Moon - my seven year old read them faster than I could buy them and they were one of the few books she read for pleasure without being asked to read.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 14/07/2020 08:51

Favourites here are Zoe's Rescue Zoo, Hotel Flamingo, Fabio the Flamingo Detective, Hubble Bubble, Adventures of Mr Penguin, Shifty McGrifty and Slippery Sam, Dotty Detective, Magic Ballerina, Isadora Moon.. All these are series.

There are so many lovely books for this age with great illustrations.

PimmsPleaseee · 14/07/2020 08:46

I bought my daughter an “Isabella Moon” book for her birthday, it’s so lovely! There’s a few in the series too I think.

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SatsukiKusakabe · 14/07/2020 08:42

cherrypavlova normally at this stage we would be roaming the library but that’s not possible for us at the moment, or browsing bookshops, hence I’m trying to get some ideas to order in. She has my old books and has read the Ladybird abridged versions of The Secret Garden etch Her older brother's shelves has the usual Walliams/Wimpy Kid and various but she hasn’t got on with them so I’m trying to widen the range to include things she’s more interested in from previous browsing.

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hippoherostandinghere · 14/07/2020 08:16

Another vote for Daisy and the trouble with...
DD loved them at that age. Also Judy Moody. She read all her brother's Wimpy Kid and Tom hates books at that age too.
Pamela Burchart has some great books as well, especially the Wigglesbottom Primary books.

ShipshapeShore · 14/07/2020 07:59

Another recommendation for the Daisy and... series by Kes Gray. My DD barely reads anything but she loves these.

CherryPavlova · 14/07/2020 07:55

Let her choose her own?
Ours liked a huge range and telling them what they might like based on previous books is a bit limiting. It pushes them down a specific route.

It’s a bit like children being obsessed with collecting things; it’s usually parents or grandparents foisting an obsession on them.

What about things like Black Beauty, Beatrix Potter stories, The secret garden, some of the Morpurgo books?

stargirl1701 · 14/07/2020 07:45

Wigglesbottom Primary series by Pamela Butchart.

Arabel's Raven series by Joan Aiken.

Jasmine series by Helen Peters.

Jill Tomlinson's animal series.

Cakes in Space by Phillip Reeve.

Knitbone Pepper series by Claire Barker.

Lottie Luna series by Vivian French.

Clever Polly and the Wolf series by Catherine Storr.

Ramona series by Beverly Cleary.

Louise0701 · 14/07/2020 07:41

My DD loved the dotty detective series & the cupcakes diaries.
Has she read the Amelia Jane books by Enid Blyton?

Ricekrispie22 · 14/07/2020 07:39

Definitely Animal Ark if she likes real world and animals.
Tilly’s Pony Tales
Seaview Stables Adventures
Tanglewood Animal Park
It might be a little difficult for her at the moment, but try The White Giraffe series by Lauren St John.

beautyqueenfrompluto · 13/07/2020 21:48

My 6 year old son loves reading the Secret Agent Jack Stalwart books...

soundsystem · 13/07/2020 21:38

Maybe not Charlotte's Web if she's quite sensitive!

There's a Matt Haig one about a girl who talks to animals, Evie in the Jungle that my DD enjoyed.

Beatrix Potter? I hate Beatrix Potter but my 5-year-old loves it. Be prepared to answer questions about archaic baking and laundry methods, though!

Chimchimcharoo · 13/07/2020 21:31

Wimpy kid books.

Monkeymonstermum · 13/07/2020 21:31

Zoe’s rescue zoo

My animal mad boys love them!

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