reading books for new reader but older

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Can someone recommend some books for a 7.5 year old girl who is not quite a fluent reader but getting there rapidly? She started reading late (only a few months ago really) as she is abroad and learning at home with parents and au pair rather than school which is in a different language. She's making rapid progress on the good old ORT (about stage 7/8 at the moment), and I'd like to send over something over a bit more exciting but that she can manage/manage with a little help to encourage her. Any recommendations?

the Jacqueline Wilson books that are meant for 7yo (check her website)
Good ol' Rainbow Fairies, Magic Kitten & Puppy.
Dr. Seuss (some of them)
Francesca Simon has some early readers in the Horrid Henry series.

My daughter , same age. likes a series of books at the moment called seriously silly stories . authors are Laurence Anholt and Arthur Robins on the Orchard books label, with titles such as Snow White and the seven aliens. Also there is a good range of books by Allan Ahlburg, Happy Families series . on the Puffin label .great fun . Banana story books cater for different stages in red yellow and blue .published by Egmont. Hope this helps.

Thanks. I know some of those and has given me some more ideas ;)

Dd is 6.5 and loves the Early Readers, especially the Horrid Henry and the Rainbow Fairies ones.

Genie street books, my just turned eight year old, also abroad in a similar situation really got into them

Thanks! Will look those up ;)

there are some walker books which are nice little ones, about 60 pages each, in about 3 chapters I think. these ones - lists all the titles www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&productId=424276 They may be a bit hard at the moment if she is level 7/8ish but they shouldn't seem too daunting due to length and pictures. The early reader ones are good, The kitten with no name, Quick Brown Fox Cub, The Wrong Kind of Bark. or The Witches Dog ones are nice. Corgi Pups colour first readers are good, amusing too. particular favourites here were Happy Mouseday, the Troublesome Tooth Fairy, Dogbird and Dog on a Broomstick.

www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&productId=424276

Not fashionable but Enid Blyton.
Faraway Tree books and naughtiest girl ones
Dick King Smith Sophie books
Katie Morag - can't remember who wrote them!
And yes Rainbow Fairies and Horrid Henry great too!

The Lighthouse Keeper stories by Ronda Armitage have been printed in chapter book format, something like 60 pages long (most of them are 2 stories in a book, the other is just one longer story) with full colour illustrations and are lovely books so they might be suitable.

Thanks, I love those books, had forgotten about them.

The "Daisy and the Trouble with" range are excellent and a great chapter style book to start off with.

Avoid the fairy range as the language is flowery and the sentence structure complicated, lots of "shimmering" etc.

Avoid the fairy range as the language is flowery and the sentence structure complicated, lots of "shimmering" etc. is that the same advice for the Rainbow Fairies Early Readers?

Just asking as my dd us at about the same stage

Just ordered dd a couple of the Daisy books from the library to see how she gets on with them.

Sorry for the thread hijack OP.

That's ok. I've already given her a couple of Daisy books in the past- to be read to her rather than her read. I think she needs something a bit easier initially. Now stuck on getting them to her without incurring big postage costs. Ho hum.

If she's abroad, could you open an amazon account in her country or try the book depository

The Claude books are wonderful and really funny, with great pictures. Claude in the City, Claude in the Spotlight etc, have a google - think the author is Alex Smith but not sure. Also Frog and Toad. And Three Little Witches was a massive hit with my newly reading DD.