Recommendations for 6 year olds?

[Ismeyes]

DD will be 6 next month and as she is a bookworm, I would like to get her a little variety of books as a present. She can read independently and is currently working her way through the joy that is rainbow magic at the rate of 1-2 books a day. I'd like to broaden her horizons alittle as I'm sick of Rachel and Kirsty, does any one have any recommendations for books (preferably not huge series like rainbow magic) that will appeal to a 6 year old without being too far over their heads or inappropriate?

Unfortunately TBP don't do the 42 book pack anymore, but I did manage to get 21 of them in a different pack for £13.50. She has read has read them all, and I managed to get some £4.99 bundles from WHSmith which worked out quite cheap.

I think I'll order a few of the longer list suggestions for her to keep, and then take her to the library for the others.

If you get Spiderwick get the trunk set(better value).I forgot Sally Gardner's Magic Children series, Corgi Pups,My Naughty Little Sister and the Oliver Moon series.

Enjoy.I love this stage,it's a joy to see them getting addicted to reading.It's like a whole new world.

Ooooo, exciting to see your kids addicted to reading. Just wondering when did they start really reading more? DS is a bit younger and enjoying reading his scheme books but not quite ready for the stuff you are talking about. I just hope I can write a post like this in 6 months to a year or so.

So far he reads to us at bedtime and will often read before going to sleep, but not really during the day- well rarely. I'm hoping once his reading gets going just that bit more (he's at about purple level), he'll have access to more substantial books (ie not just Magic Key etc!!!) and will also become addicted. We shall see!

Tgger you can read what you like at home.

Try The Magic Treehouse/Corgi Pups/Horrid Henry Early Readers,Happy Cats for boys.

If you go to your library they have loads of different schemes/early readers which would give him confidence to try books other than ORT.Don't make it a chore and go very gently,kind of leave them lying around etc

Thanks for the advice MrsHeffley. He is still passionate (strange but true) about Magic Key stories so I've kept him in supply, although I am getting a bit tired of them myself . Luckily he's reaching the last levels of those soon- well errrr there are theoretically quite a few more to go but I'm going to try to avoid buying too many more, they can come from school!

We've tried Horrid Henry and although he's a bit shy of reading them to us he has been found reading them so that's good. Yes, I can see the gently gently approach being good. We often find that he'll enjoy something we read to him that is perhaps a bit tricky but then he'll pick up by himself as the story has "got him" (ideal!).

Thanks for other suggestions, will look out for them in the library.

If you want a story about a fairy with a bit more literary quality, The Night Fairy is supposed to be very good (lots of good reviews on US Amazon, although none on co.uk yet). I've just bought it as a present (for a 7th birthday) so haven't read it from cover to cover, but the opening pages look great (there's a big chunk of it in Look inside the book). I saw it recommended on a US librarian's blog.

I am just bumping this thread as it's so useful! Some fab recommendations that I keep going back to. Thanks again all!