My third child is DS2, who will be 5 at the end of May.
He's doing well with reading at school and can read simple-ish stories to me if I sit and give him lots of encouragement.
However, at bedtime he still wants me to read to him, reasonably enough.
Problem is, as the third child in the family, he's been hearing the same 'Tiger Who Came to Tea' and 'This is the Bear' type stories for ever, and both he and I are bored to tears with them. But at still only 4, he prefers a book with pictures to look at, which can be read in its entirety. I don't think he really has the concentration yet to listen to chapter-a-night type books.
We have the entire Julia Donaldson ouvre, but I'm looking for other, similar type of things. Big colourful pictures but enough text and complexity of language to tell a decent story. He liked Edwina the Dinosaur who Didn't Know she was Extinct, and I've just ordered a couple of the Kes Gray 'Daisy' picture books from Amazon. He doesn't mind a bit of Harry and his Bucket full of Dinosaurs although they make me want to slit my wrists.
So - books with pictures, but not too babyish.
What else might he like?