AIBU to ask for books for DD6 to read?

[Arieliwish]

On google searches I can’t seem to find a decent book series for girls (while I appreciate that books can be read by anyone DD is a very girly girl and is not interested in the series’ we already have for DS). But we want to ensure it is stretching her vocabulary.

What kind of level is she currently at, and what books does she already like? There are lots of book series for girls around that age, but is she more a Worst Witch or Ottoline girl, or a Magic Ballerina kind of girl?

Toppsta.com and fantasticfiction.com are useful resources.

Some author suggestions:

Laura Ellen Anderson or Harriet Muncaster if she likes magic/spooky
Holly Webb or Helen Peters if she likes animal stories
Daisy Meadows for the ubiquitous fairies and other magical series

The Daisy and the trouble with...series by Kes Grey are good reads.
Usborne/Ladybird abridged classics (Secret Garden, The Railway Children etc) are good. My daughter went through a Dickens and Shakespeare phase when she was around that age thanks to Usborne.
Ramona Quimby series by Beverly Clearly
Worst Witch by Jill Murphy
You could start her on Enid Blyton with the Secret Seven.

What reading level is she at school? , is she young year 2 or old year 1?

Unipiggle by Hannah Shaw
Princess Mirror-Belle by Julia Donaldson

Do you have a local library? It might be worth going and talking to them and seeing what they suggest. It's so easy to suggest fairy/animal type books for a girl of that age as they are so popular, but they will have all sorts in the library that she might prefer

If she’s just getting into chapter books, then the Mango and Bambang, Polly and the Puffin and Bad Nana series were all v popular with my DD at that stage.

For a little later, Worst Witch, Ottoline, Olga da Polga, Ramona, Sophie and anything by Astrid Lindgren are great: my DD preferred Emil and the Noisy village books to Pippi, but you can get box sets of Astrid Lindgren books which collect them all.

My DD loves 'Daisy and the trouble with ' books. She finds them really funny. Started reading them at about 7 I think.

We’re reading Magnificent Mabel and they’re pretty good.

Daisy and the trouble with are great books. My dd 7 is reading Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories at the moment. She also likes all the Roald Dahl books.

My 5yo is loving mummy fairy and me. It’s pushed her reading on hugely because it is very accessible.

Thank you everyone! Some amazing suggestions! Have spent several hours looking them all up! To answer a few questions DD is a young one in Y2 and needs a bit of a push with her reading due to all the upheaval over the last couple of years.
She’s a good reader but not quite where she’s capable of.
She’s really into fairies and fairy tale, fantasy.

Enid Blyton's Enchanted Wood series.
Battersea Cats and Dogs Home books. They are by different authors, and each one is the name of a dog or cat eg Skye, Max etc.

I loved the Paddington Bear books at that age.

Definitely Enid Blyton magic Faraway tree series and secret seven. The vocab is old fashioned and will stretch her whilst being enjoyable and accessible.

Definitely in that case, as pp have said the Blyton Enchanted Wood and Wishing Chair series.

There's a series of Magic Ballerina books by Darcey Bussell which are really good for that age (though once DD had read a few she said they got too samey after a while, but they'd be good as short chapter books), and combine magic and ballet. I think we got them in a set from one of the cheap books companies. If she likes Rainbow Fairies then she will like these.

Other classics --
Gobbolino the Witch's Cat?

The Carbonel books? (More for being read to as they are slightly above that reading age, but it's a really charming series which is about a young witch and a talking cat and magic broom, but set in the real world (1960s+) and it's gentler and less 'witchy' than the Worst Witch. Very much has an air of Bed-Knobs and Broomsticks if you remember that film!

I'll have a look at DD's bookshelf later and try to think of some more.

Oh and I found that an audiobook of the Blyton worked very well to get her hooked on the stories.

I loved The Worst Witch and Rainbow Fairies when I was in Year 2

DD1 is a young in year 7yo. Last year (in yr2) she enjoyed reading The Worst Witch series, Gobbolino the Witch's Cat, The Iron Man, Stig of the Dump, The Queen's Nose, and Bill's New Frock.
She also got on well with some of the National Geographic Readers, which can be bought at various reading levels (they don't match ORT though, so have a look at the sample pages to gauge the correct level). If you are looking to build vocab, you need a mix of fiction and non-fiction. Both DDs (younger DD is 5yo) also really enjoy audio books, which are a handy way of accessing books/language above their reading level, in addition to you reading to them. We listened to the first two Lion/witch/wardrobe books on the way to and from our summer hols this year; they were riveted.

I forgot the Dahl! She loved/loves that too

Try the Isadora Moon series. Beautifully presented books with a touch of glitter and the right amount of words and text to challenge but enjoy.

DD is 7 and a voracious reader. She’s read/we’ve read with her The Worst Witch series, most Roald Dahl books, The Faraway Tree series, a couple of the Narnia books and Harry Potter (up to Order of the Phoenix - we’re staying off the remaining books for a year or so as I think they’re a bit too dark for her right now).

She’s been bringing home David Walliams books and Secret Seven books as her reading books from school since September. I can’t stand the Walliams’ books (poor man’s Roald Dahl IMHO), but she loves them and I’m all for anything that gets kids reading.

@Arieliwish

On google searches I can’t seem to find a decent book series for girls (while I appreciate that books can be read by anyone DD is a very girly girl and is not interested in the series’ we already have for DS). But we want to ensure it is stretching her vocabulary.

I used to love the Angelina Ballerina books they were my favourite!

The lighthouse keeper series.
Enid Blyton books.
We had a general tesco/the works trawl for books that appealed to dd. Usually very cheap, nice pictures and not overly wordy but certainly not the same as bloody biffer chippy kipper

Mine likes the Never Girls