Books for 6 year old independent reader

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My dd has just clicked with reading chapter books over this time in lockdown and has been ripping through the Sophie’s Adventures books by Dick King Smith. She’s quite sensitive and likes animal stories - she has Holly Webb and Animal magic books at bedtime but really likes following the girl character in the Sophie books. I’m not quite sure how we’re going to follow them!

Does anyone know of anything else like them?

Thanks

Worst Witch? Mammoth Academy? Faraway Tree?

Thank you - she’s had Magic Faraway Tree read to her but didn’t enjoy it and I did think of Worst Witch as they were my favourites but she is more into real world things than magic at the moment.

I haven’t heard of Mammoth Academy so will look them up!

Would Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White be any good? :)

I don't know Sophie's Adventures but my DD (aged 6) is loving the My Naughty Little Sister series, she's also reading the first Harry Potter, has loved Captain Underpants and Horrid Henry. She's another one who's really got into chapter books in lockdown possibly due to the fact that any mention of boredom (or group fighting as I also have 2 DS 8 & 4) has led to me telling everyone to get a book and sit down

She might enjoy the Lucy Daniels Animal Ark stories: Kittens in the Kitchen, Pony in the Porch.

She might also enjoy some of the Enid Blyton farm stories such as The Children of Cherry Tree Farm, The Children of Willow Farm, Willow Farm Again.

My daughter liked the Worst Witch and the Amelia Fang series.
She's now moved on to the Narnia books which are harder going but she's enjoying them too.

DD is just 7, she adores the 'Daisy and the trouble with...' books that were reccommended on here.

Zoe’s rescue zoo

My animal mad boys love them!

Wimpy kid books.

Maybe not Charlotte's Web if she's quite sensitive!

There's a Matt Haig one about a girl who talks to animals, Evie in the Jungle that my DD enjoyed.

Beatrix Potter? I hate Beatrix Potter but my 5-year-old loves it. Be prepared to answer questions about archaic baking and laundry methods, though!

My 6 year old son loves reading the Secret Agent Jack Stalwart books...

Definitely Animal Ark if she likes real world and animals.
Tilly’s Pony Tales
Seaview Stables Adventures
Tanglewood Animal Park
It might be a little difficult for her at the moment, but try The White Giraffe series by Lauren St John.

My DD loved the dotty detective series & the cupcakes diaries.
Has she read the Amelia Jane books by Enid Blyton?

Wigglesbottom Primary series by Pamela Butchart.

Arabel's Raven series by Joan Aiken.

Jasmine series by Helen Peters.

Jill Tomlinson's animal series.

Cakes in Space by Phillip Reeve.

Knitbone Pepper series by Claire Barker.

Lottie Luna series by Vivian French.

Clever Polly and the Wolf series by Catherine Storr.

Ramona series by Beverly Cleary.

Let her choose her own?
Ours liked a huge range and telling them what they might like based on previous books is a bit limiting. It pushes them down a specific route.

It’s a bit like children being obsessed with collecting things; it’s usually parents or grandparents foisting an obsession on them.

What about things like Black Beauty, Beatrix Potter stories, The secret garden, some of the Morpurgo books?

Another recommendation for the Daisy and... series by Kes Gray. My DD barely reads anything but she loves these.

Another vote for Daisy and the trouble with...
DD loved them at that age. Also Judy Moody. She read all her brother's Wimpy Kid and Tom hates books at that age too.
Pamela Burchart has some great books as well, especially the Wigglesbottom Primary books.

cherrypavlova normally at this stage we would be roaming the library but that’s not possible for us at the moment, or browsing bookshops, hence I’m trying to get some ideas to order in. She has my old books and has read the Ladybird abridged versions of The Secret Garden etch Her older brother's shelves has the usual Walliams/Wimpy Kid and various but she hasn’t got on with them so I’m trying to widen the range to include things she’s more interested in from previous browsing.

I bought my daughter an “Isabella Moon” book for her birthday, it’s so lovely! There’s a few in the series too I think.

Favourites here are Zoe's Rescue Zoo, Hotel Flamingo, Fabio the Flamingo Detective, Hubble Bubble, Adventures of Mr Penguin, Shifty McGrifty and Slippery Sam, Dotty Detective, Magic Ballerina, Isadora Moon.. All these are series.

There are so many lovely books for this age with great illustrations.

Agree on Isadora Moon - my seven year old read them faster than I could buy them and they were one of the few books she read for pleasure without being asked to read.

Thank you for so many great ideas - I will sort through them all with her the Daisy ones look especially like they might be a winner.

She likes Wigglesbottom Primary and Naughty Little Sister and dips in and out of those.

stargirl that’s a great list I used to love Arabel and Mortimer and had completely forgotten them!

louise yes she’s not keen on Amelia Jane - she was too naughty and she found it quite stressful

She loves Beatrix Potter and has most of those. The Cherry Tree Farm one sound like they might be good.

noodieroodie exactly - 3 months of being told to go and look at books at least once a day has done the trick!

I was going to suggest the Sophie books!
Similar, are the Ramona Quimby books by Beverley Cleary. I read them as a child, and dd(8) and I have just finished them.

They are American and the first book in the series was written in the late 1950s (the last in the 1990s), but other than a little vocabulary, they could be set anywhere and are not at all dated. Like Sophie, they are about a little girl growing up, seen through her eyes. They are charming, sweet and funny. Ramona is 4 in the first one and about 10 in the last one. They were a spin off from the “Henry and Ribsy” series by the same author.

They are surprisingly unknown in the UK, but you can get them secondhand on eBay it new in sets on Amazon.

Beatrix Potter? I hate Beatrix Potter but my 5-year-old loves it. Be prepared to answer questions about archaic baking and laundry methods, though!

Mine used to listen to Beatrix P audio cds as they went to sleep. One night I heard frantic 5 year old calling. MUMMY!! MUMMY!! Raced up the stairs thinking accident, sickness etc. When I arrived she brightly asked me "Mummy! What is a stickleback?!"

Lottie Lipton. About a girl who lives in the British Library and solves mysteries.

The Zoey and Sassafras series about a girl and her cat who use science to solve mysteries.