My 7 yo reads Lottie Brooks books🫤

[Spinderella1]

My recently turned 7 yo dd, reads and loves reading "Lottie Brooks " books. However, on the blurb it mentions that the main protagonist (Lottie) is a 11 3/4 yo. There are text message excerpts with abbreviations such as "obvs" etc. Also, there is a text message excerpt where I think Lottie is about to go to secondary school and she texts her friend " Help, I am still boobless. School starts in two days...any ideas?" and her friend messages back "Pray" 🙄. I really don't like my 7 yo dd reading these books tbh. It's very much teenager like. She has got loads of other books, but my dd loves reading these Lottie Broom ones. What would you do? I first got her the Christmas book because she wanted it, and she loved it so much she wanted this "Extremely Embarrassing Life of Lottie Brooks" one and I am finding it just cringy. She asked for the Roald Dahl collection and Enid Blyton books sometime back which I've got her. They are all gathering dust while she's reading these Lottie Brooks ones. I don't know what I am looking for from this thread tbh, I guess I am asking what would you do? Would telling her not to read these books until she's a little older be too interfering?. I don't want to put her off reading. But at the same time i dont want a 7 yo Lottie Brooks! HELP!

Anybody?

I think it’s pretty hard to stop her reading ones you’ve bought without “losing” them and you have to decide if it’s a hill worth dying on as to whether you buy more. My two pence worth is that they are not damaging and can foster good talks at some point but I can also see that if she’s only just 7 you might want to delay those.
At my dd’s school they are in the school library- year 4 and under aren’t allowed to borrow them to take home but no one stops them reading them while they’re at school- they all just keep a note of where they’re up to in the book! So I’ve decided to buy them/borrow them from main library for my daughter (8) she loves them all- and I love that she loves reading. Not sure that helps but just my thoughts

Thank you for replying 😊. When GPs asked what she wanted for Xmas, she's given them the titles of two more Lottie Brooks books. It'll be quite a few for me to "lose" 😆. See, the christmas one wasnt too bad, but this one she is reading is definitely aimed at a slightly older audience. Maybe I'll just wait until she's finished these and not get her anymore for a bit at least to see if she'll turn to other books. Hopefully, she'll take to more age appropriate ones in the meantime 🤞

Don't stop her reading. Don't know the books but they don't sound too awful. I don't think there is a keen reader on the planet who hasn't read something highly unsuitable at some point.

Try and find out what it is about the books and stories she likes and see if you can find some more old fashioned books that fit the bill, writers like Nina Bawden, Joan Aiken and Helen Cresswell maybe.

If she's enjoying them it doesn't sound massively inappropriate to me. Just stuff that will seem a bit 'naughty and rude' to a 7yo, I don't think it'll do any harm.

Tell her you're holding the other ones for a few months because she's too young to fully understand the references and she will enjoy them more later.

Then bunny Vs monkey books to distract her

Assuming she's read harry potter?

I've always found that by and large things that are too old for them go over their heads or they ask and are easily distracted with oh you'll find out when your older.
There's nothing hideous in them as far as I remember from dd reading them.
I made a booboo once with dd1 and Blue Crush - I remembered it as a surfy/competition/do your best and be resilient kinda film and the first 20 mins was boozy frat parties & sex.
Don't make them forbidden fruit coz then are prob in school library anyway.

Have you tried her on The Trouble With Daisy books? They are diary style writing but much closer to your daughter’s age

Lottie Brooks is not meant for a 7 year old. If your 7 year old knows about puberty and stuff like that then by all means let them read it but if they don't know about that stuff, don't let them read it. The age rating for all the books are 9-12 years old so that's why it is not very suitable for a 7 year old. Don't force your daughter to read the other books but point her in the direction of reading the other books because she was that asked for the roald dahl and enid blyton books.

They don't sound too bad 😊 and like they say if you want your kid to read let them read what they like! I remember being your daughters age and reading my mums mills and boon novels! 😂