High quality picture books for 5 year old

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Hi all, I have a 5.5 year old (Y1) who is doing really well with reading. His favourite books at the moment are the Gruffalo, anything Julia Dinaldson really, Harry and the Dinosaurs series, Elmer books, Dr Seuss, the storm whale series, the Nat Geo little kids first big book of...(ocean, space, dinosaurs, etc.). He reads these very well, gets the story and can relay it back so his comprehension is also good.

Although he is capable of reading chapter books, he really isn't quite there yet as there is a lot of text in these and not many pictures. I am looking for recommendations for high quality (longish) picture books which are varied in terms of the language and sentence structure...maybe books like Pipi Longstocking and Winnie the Pooh but with pictures? Please could you give me any suggestions?

Winnie the Witch
Katie Morag
Compton Valance books
Lighthouse Keeper books
Percy The Park Keeper series by Nick Butterworth
Alfie series by Shirley Hughes
Mog the cat series
Funnybones books
Mr Men and Little Miss
Tales from Brambly Hedge
Mrs Pepperpot stories
Peter Rabbit
Can't You Sleep Little Bear - Martin Waddell & Barbara Firth
Whatever Next! By Gill Murphy
The Large Family series by Gill Murphy
Hugless Douglas books
Old Bear series by Jane Hissy
Aliens Love Underpants
Claude books by Alex Smith

Brilliant, thanks @Ricekrispie22, I have found a few from your list that I think my son would enjoy.

The Jonny Duddle books are great, they have a bit more text than many picture books.

Hairy Maclary books by Lynley Dodd are lovely - especially ‘Scarface Claw Hold Tight!’ ‘Hairy Maclary Hat Tricks!’ And ‘Slinky Malinki Open the Door’

I also saw Lion in Paris by Beatrice Alemagna in the library this week and it looks gorgeous www.amazon.co.uk/Lion-Paris-Beatrice-Alemagna/dp/184976171X?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

We love Arnold Lobel books - frog and toad, little bear, mouse soup. They are older but so very very charming, humorous but also very poignant. Would highly recommend for something a bit quirky and different.

We (DH 50s, me 40s, DS 9) adore Dogger, by Shirley Hughes. DS used to read it to us and DH and I would always get teary!

Mini Grey’s books are great. Quirky and lots of subtleties within the illustrations which are super for encouraging deeper thinking/inference about the story which is an important skill to practise.

We also love Mini Grey!
My 5yo loves How the Borks Became by Jonathan Emmett (it's a funny rhyming story about evolution, with great illustrations by Elys Dolan). Also The Unicorn Prince by Saviour Pirotta has gone down well - it's a bit longer than many picture books with beautiful illustrations.

Also try the Hot Air Balloon Adventure series by Annahita de la Mare - they are the typical length of picture books but with more of a story. Each book has a different adventure but is part of the same series so you start to get that following characters over time thing that you get in chapter books, but it's more manageable. Also a great selection of big words, so a little bit of a vocabulary challenge.