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Adventure books for 4 year old?

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TheGruffaloFish · 15/12/2015 21:41

Can anyone suggest some books for my nearly 4 year old DD. Warrior princess theme (today she was climbing the wall bars in the gym to rescue a prince from a dragon!) or girl adventurer.

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DontWorryBaby · 15/12/2015 21:49

Zog - Julia Donaldson.

Only have boys myself so struggling to think of any others!

enderwoman · 15/12/2015 21:52

The Paperbag princess

enderwoman · 15/12/2015 21:53

Princess Smartypants

MajesticSeaFlapFlap · 15/12/2015 21:54

Sir Charlie stinky socks

TheGruffaloFish · 16/12/2015 12:50

Thanks! She has Zog, it was one of her favourites. She keeps asking me to read her Tintin and Asterix, but I told her she has to ask DH for those (they're in French)!

I have ordered the Paperbag princess, I hope she likes it.

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schmalex · 17/12/2015 07:22

How about The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton.
Also the Sir Charlie Stinkysocks books are good, although they have a male lead.

mrsmortis · 17/12/2015 09:01

The Worst Princess, she spurns the prince and flies of with the dragon to have adventures...

Holstein · 17/12/2015 09:15

Zita the space girl
Hilda and the troll
Missing by Jonathan Langley

Imfinehowareyou · 17/12/2015 09:28

This reading of The Paperbag Princess is awesome. I used to play it to my class as a treat and they adored it. Probably because Robert Munsch says "bum" (American tramp) really loudly at the end Blush

BlueChampagne · 04/01/2016 13:22

Try her on Pippi Longstocking? And keep an eye out for Sophie and the Shadow Woods for the future.

merlinalison · 04/01/2016 17:06

How about reading her "The Princess in the Tower Block" by Finbar O'Connor from the Puffin book of Stories for 7 year olds. I read it to my niece at 5 and she loved it."There was once a princess who was tired of being in fairytales and sick of being locked up in towers and waking up in a bed full of frogs claiming to be princes in disguise. Most of the princes she knew looked like frogs in disguise anyway."

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