Books for an enthusiastic but struggling 6 year old

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My son is 6 and has struggled with phonics etc, he's currently working through read write Inc books at school but wanting to read some more grown up books with me at home.

We've bought beast quest but that's way beyond him, does anyone have any suggestions of what we could get. He's really keen so I want to keep him interested!

My 6yo DS has enjoyed the Lego Star Wars, Marvel and DC phonics books. Have a Google there are quite a few to choose from. Is he interested in anything like that?

Claude books

If your DS is into horrid Henry, they are good books, they are like the programmes

Try the National Geographic Kids books, level 1 probably. Lots of facts and science if he's into that sort of thing.

There is a funny and slightly bizarre series about a pirate school by Jeremy Strong.

We did Dinosaur Cove (Rex Stone) before Beast Quest. And the magic tree house series (Mary Pope Osbourne), but those were a bit Americian in words and phrasing and perhaps not the easiest to decode.
Otherwise, they don't look grown up, but Super heros were popular.

What about the smallest Dahl books - Esio Trot, Giraffe the Pelly &Me. May be Magic Finger.

We got (still do) DS to read the first page of a chapter, and then read the rest of it to him. The more complicated vocab doesnt seem to apoear as often in the first few paragraphs of a chapter.

There was a reading series called Boys Rule that were huge help to my eldest, going back some years now, but he just clicked in to reading with them.

My youngest will only read The Beano

Fab, some great things to go out, thank you!

I just get him to read bits of each page to me in beast quest, but know it would be a big boost to read a book himself that wasn't a reading book

Usbourne do whole series of books for young readers (each series is a different level) and they cover a range of genres. Adventure, poetry, history, funny etc. There are lots. Have a wee look on amazing second hand; I have about 30 and all around £2 each. My boys both love them.

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Our boys read a lot of Tintin! Some words they don't understand, or skip over, but the pictures helped them get the gist and it kept them interested. If you read them together you can get your son to read out the sound effects while you read the speech bubbles.

Tom Gates series is great, both my DC (girl and boy) enjoyed. Lots of doodle illustration.

I'd also recommend The Phoenix comic, our local library gets it and now we have a subscription

DS read Captain Underpants books when he was struggling to enjoy anything else. He'd read them on his own in bed which wasca first.

13 Storey Treehouse series.

Ooh Captain underpants, I've seen them but thought they might be too hard, will definitely try one of them.

Thanks so much everyone, really helpful!

They're not too hard, very comic type stories and very silly. DS laughed a lot at them.

Dog Man by Dav Pilkey (wrote Captain Underpants too) are really fab and funny.

Has he read any of the Frog and Toad books? DS loved them at that age.

If he likes Horrid Henry you can get some Easy Read ones.

DS liked Frog and Toad books. They are American but were one of the first books that DS read by himself where he got the jokes.

Usbourne, DK and Ladybird do some lovely easy readers. DS has several Star Wars themed books. They're fantastic as the text is accessible, but they're cool and relevant to his interests.

if you want old fashioned, get the Happy Families series from Ahlberg. Lovely little stories and just the reading level for when you are starting to be independent.

Have you seen Barrington Stoke books? They might be appropriate - easy to read but look a bit more ‘grown-up’. www.barringtonstoke.co.uk

Definitely dav pilkey - Dogman and captain underpants. My dd struggled to read but loved books. These and a variety of comics/graphic novels gave her confidence to read herself. She also enjoyed phonix comics And the beano.

Adventure time, the Simpsons, powerpuff girls, teen titans, Pokemon all have graphic novels.

There's also nick sharratt daisy books and a more boyish version I think Jack maybe? Most have ' and the trouble with' in the title. And his recent book the cat and the king. (There's 2 books of those)

Dr suess are good to read, some are quite long but the language is very simple and repetitive.

Also her believe it or not Books, joke books, guiness world records are good as they are small bits of writing and lots of pictures.

The Dinosaur Cove series of books.
Enid Blyton books.

Danny Dragonbreath series, by Ursula Vernon. Lots of pics, fun and good attitude.