Your 5/6 year old's favourite book?

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I need some inspiration for new books for a 5(and a half!) DS.

He's a good reader and consumes books at an enormous rate, so I want to move from the classic early years picture books onto something a bit meatier. But not anything too long and chunky yet (we're saving Harry Potter for a later age).

So far all I can come up with is the Claude series. Any suggestions?

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Fortunately, the Milk - I love this one as the story structure is similar to that of a picture book, but, it is designed for slightly older readers. Perfect.

Dixie O'Day this was written by Shirley Hughes, so you can't really go wrong. Plus, another one is due out very soon.

Depending on his reading level, he may be ready for Cakes in Space, which is lots of fun too.

Ds loves the horrid henry books, he will sit and read 1 everyday day.

You are lovely lovely people, thank you. I'll get looking at all those now.

Gobbolino the witches cat
Dealing with dragons

And anything by Enid Blyton

I recommend the Mighty Girl website for inspiration.

Worst Witch
Dick King-Smith's Sophie books
Winnie the Witch (there are more stories for older children, usually 4 short stories bound into one book)

Dinosaur cove, Jack Stalwart, Professir Branestawm, Astrosaurs, Oliver Moon, Harry and the Dinosaurs Chapter books, Usborne Young Reading series, Superpowers by Alex Cliff, Flat Stanley.

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III aka How To Train Your Dragon series- there's 11 of them, he's obsessed!

Sorry, meant to continue thus:
They're well written, with good vocabulary, interesting and varied language. They have illustrations among the text (a la Claude or Dixie O'Day, both of which he loved too), maps, 'fact cards' about dragons (they're like top trumps for dragons).
The story arc is across the whole series, but you can enjoy them individually perfectly well, I would say read them in order though, if you;re going to do the whole lot, as otherwise you'd get major spoilers

I love them too.

Over the summer 5 yr old DS was obsessive about Pirate Penguins (Frank Rodgers) and Pirate School (Jeremy Strong) books. He's not actually particularly into pirates, but having loved Pirate School books another pirate series was as far as we could tempt him, and then he loved those even more.

I'm not sure if these fall under your description of classic early years picture books or not. They're kind of mini chapter books but still with nice colourful pictures on every page. DS insists on colour pictures so not venturing far into chapter book territory at the moment. Watching other recommendations with interest...

Flat Stanley was a firm favourite of my two when they were that age.

DS worked his way through the entire Magic Treehouse series at that age. He adored them. I also remember him devouring David Melling's Goblins series – about 5 or 6 books.

Goblins has reminded me of another favourite at that age - Gobbolino the Witch's Cat. Also, by the same author, The Adventure of the Little Wooden Horse. This is going back a bit, though - my DDs are now in their 20s!

Oliver Moon books by Sue Mongredian
Billy bonkers by Giles Andrae
The Dirty Bertie books
I don't believe it Archie, by Andrew Norriss
Aunt severe and the dragons by Nick Garlick