Book recommendation for 6 year old

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Hi my 6 year old DD is a very able reader however still likes pictures books. Doesn’t like chapter books. I wanted advice for what to get her to read . I would prefer longer picture books.
also need advice on how to move her on to chapter books.
she has read the hairy mclary, Julia Donaldson, dr Seuss,
May the moment she is enjoying a big box set of mr men and little miss books but I am wondering what next.
she has also recently got into dinosaurs and rejecting princess and kitten themes.

thanks.

Younger graphic novels (Hilda, Asterix)?
chapter books with a big graphic component (Winnie the Witch, xx storey treehouse)?
or audio books to read along with a simple chapter book?

There are lots of first chapter books with illustrations on most, if not all, pages. Quite a few of these books have coloured illustrations.

Rabbit and Bear
Claude the dog
Hotel Flamingo
Ivy and Bean
Flying Fergus
The Dragonsitter
Mudpuddle Farm

Dd has just tried Indigo Wilde which is colour illustrated but heavy text. She enjoyed the story but needed help with reading momentum.
Before that she read Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz by Michael Morpurgo which was superb.

We started on Chapter books with Mrs Pepperpot after a recommendation on here

The colour illustrated versions of the Roald Dahl books are good for bridging the gap between picture books and chapter books. We started with fantastic mr fox. If she's a competent reader she will probably be fine with that.

There are also colour illustrated versions of the Harry Potter books if/when she's ready for them.

Katie Morag books

Thank you everyone . Will look for these in the library

The Shifty McGifty series also has some that are first chapter books and bridge the gap.

Do you read chapter books to her? We started with books where each chapter was it's own story (My Naughtly Little Sister, Milly Molly Mandy, Mrs Pepperpot etc) and then he gradually grew in his ability to hold attention for the longer stories. The shorter Roald Dahl are a great next step as mentioned above.

She just started reading my naughty little sister and loves it. Will look out for the other recommendations too.
she likes reading to me rather than the other way around so I am looking for more titles which appeal to her.
thanks

Allen Ahlberg's Happy Family series is a good bridge, it's longer than a picture book but shorter than most of the books listed above.

I also used various reading books series to help with this stage, as both DC read a lot and keeping them supplied with at the stage they still want shorter books is hard work. Our library has a few sets at about the right level, ones called red bananas, the Usborne Young Reading Series One, Race Ahead with Reading and then Race Further with Reading all had OK stories. If your library has book banded books, I used some of those with my DC for pleasure as well at this stage.

We moved from the jolly rogers picture books to the reading books. Winnie the with also have a series of reading books. Otherwise the Princess in Black and the Hilda graphic novels are great for this age.

But to be fair DD is 8 now and despite being an excellent reader, still likes to re read her picture books.

I think there is a real gap here and someone could make a fortune from a really good series of 'grown up' picture books. My ds really liked the tree house books but they are hard to read with someone as more of a comic format. The shorter illustrated Roald Dahls is a good suggestion. You could also try Nate the Great, and the Narwhal and Jelly books (v odd but appealed to ds!). Getting slightly longer, the Mr Penguin books went down well here and I really enjoyed the worst witch as a kid although ds wasn't a fan.

My little girl came home with a book in they Hey Jack series by Sally Rippin, it’s got 3 chapters and a few pictures along the way. It’s really ignited a new found love of reading for her, so I can’t wait to try her on some of these suggestions and the Billie B Brown series by Sally Rippin too 🙂

My DC both loved both Sally Rippin series, you be seencan get box sets of them cheaply on eBay if you keep searching for a few weeks. They have quite large text though, mine found them a much easier read than the sorts of series mentioned above.

More grown up picture books
Paddington in the Garden
Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton Trent
The incredible book eating boy
Zoo - Anthony Browne
The book with no pictures

Need to find second hand…. Peabody the detective books (3). Gerald Durrell s dinosaur adventure and around the world.

At 6 David Walliams got my daughter really into chapter books as they are interspersed with pictures and interesting looking text.

Wizzed through them all laughing her head off. And that stopped her seeing 'normal' size/shape books and thinking "no" if that makes sense?

Thank you for the recommendations. She is enjoying her my naughty little sister books will look out for the others mentioned. She didn’t like Winnie the witch. And also reluctant to read the smaller Roald Dahl’s

Dragon Masters got my dragon obsessed daughter reading from not being keen. They have some pictures but are short chapter books. They do have American spellings which is ok but I had to explain.

Beatrix Potter and other illustrated classics like wind in the willows are worth a try.

Also Paddington.

The Claude series
Daisy and the Trouble with... series

both chapter book series with lots of illustrations

Thanks. Ok she seems to be hopping from book to book too so will pick up a book read a chapter or two and move to another book without finishing the first. She has no desire to finish the book. I am finding it a bit hard to keep her to a book.

i get all our books from a really wonderful second hand book shop I will keep my eyes out for these thanks for the suggestions and keep them coming

Too much book in that post 😅

My 6 year old loves the Isadora Moon series. They are chapter books with lots of pictures.

Lauren Child's Clarice Bean books are great, if she liked Charlie and Lola?