Books for a 5/6 yo

[Newmum738]

My DS is 5 1/2 (year 1). We are enjoying reading together and looking for some inspiration. He has enjoyed George's Marvellous Medicine, The Twits and Up the Faraway Tree so far. Please share your recommendations!

[Forgottenmyphone]

my DS (6) enjoys Flat Stanley, Dirty Bertie, Just William and 100 Mile an Hour Dog

[KateDop]

How about some other books by Roald Dahl: Matilda or BFG: https://www.amazon.es/Matilda-New-Windmills-Roald-Dahl/dp/043512398X/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.IFwW0zhHCSeNXpSNdS_EkA.76Sdl6TlywX1rHs4Mjq6Uq5INCm0wme_U8y8ax_G-Qc&dib_tag=se&keywords=isbn+9780435123987+Matilda&linkCode=gs3&qid=1712065970&sr=8-1 ? My 6-year old also enjoys reading Paddington together.

[CCLCECSC]

Dirty Bertie series

[Newmum738]

I'll look up Dirty Bertie. Just William is a good one! We have Flat Stanley.

[SimoneW]

This series is really fun. It' sounds like you will enjoy it from what you like:

https://www.searchgoodbooks.com/books/the-case-of-the-vanishing-granny-the-big-top-mysteries-1

and this is a classic, but he may be a little young, depends how mature of a 5 year old he is...

https://www.searchgoodbooks.com/books/the-indian-in-the-cupboard

[LeeMiller]

As well as the three you mention, DS of the same age has recently enjoyed:
Dick King Smith (Sheep Pig, the Hodgeheg, Water Horse)
jill Tomlinson (Owl who was afraid of the dark etc)
Winnie the Pooh
Pippi Longstocking and Lotta makes a mess


He loves the Dahl ones best but I’m trying to spread them out a bit.

[Useyourfork]

Shifty Magifty and Slippery Sam
Rabbit and Bear
Gobbolino the Witches Cat

[Useyourfork]

Christmasaurus

[WeirdPookah]

Toto The Ninja Cat series.

[alexmahowney]

Try "Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House", really cool book:

[novocaine4thesoul]

4 kids here, we absolutely loved Jez Alborough's "fix it duck" (and similar in the series, Duck in a Truck etc.). It is perfect for a 5 year old, so easy to read with them, it tells the adventures of an accident prone duck and his friends (mainly goat, sheep and frog) in a rhyming way, so that the child often shouts out what is going to happen as you turn the page. Easy language, funny storyline, nothing pretentious, woke, or makes you think too much, and very easy to read as a parent.

[MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira]

DS is 5 1/2 and is obsessed with the famous five at the moment, he was so excited for the second BBC special at Easter, we're working our way through the books and he has some for his yoto player too. A bit old fashioned in places but I found the language in Ronald Dahl more challenging in places (especially Charlie and the great glass elevator his descriptions of people from other countries 🫣)

[MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira]

DS also thinks the giraffe, the pelly and me is hilarious

[PuttingDownRoots]

At that age mine loved Alex T Smith... Claude books and Mr Penguin series9. Notvsure if he has more series now.