Quick Pratchett advice please!

[TheLittleOldWomanWhoShrinks]

I'm currently reading the Bromeliad trilogy to dd (9) and she's very much enjoying it. She liked the short story collections (Dragons at Crumbling Castle and the Witch's Vacuum Cleaner) before that - but she didn't like the short-story version of the Carpet People so not going down that route. Would the Tiffany Aching series be a good place to go next, or is she still a bit too young for that?

That's it, really. Thank you

We've read the latter, not tried the former - thank you!

Has she read A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin? Brilliant series I read around that age.

No, we haven't done that one, but the name is familiar. I'll look it up!

(I say 'we', btw, because new stuff mostly comes via me reading to her, which she loves - she does read herself, of course, but it's mainly comic books and 'easier' reads atm. She's bilingual and her reading ability would absolutely be up to the sort of stuff I read to her, but she just doesn't pick them up by herself yet. She might if I didn't read to her, but we both enjoy it so much)

Oh keep reading to her for as long as she asks/lets you! My favourite memories from when I was a child include my mum reading to me!

I took myself off to Kynance Cove on a Cornish holiday purely because of the Rosemary Manning books (Green Smoke, Dragon in Danger etc) that she read. Other favourites included The Wombles, and The Green Knowe series by Lucy M Boston (Giving away my age a bit…)

@MrsTerryPratchett

I think this one's for you...

Thanks!

Tiffany is great and as PPs have said, if you read one a year, the later books get dark at the right time! She could also start on the Discworld books because the first ones are silly and not complicated. Amazing Maurice is also brilliant.

I'd probably go for Maurice before starting the Tiffany series as it's a nice stand alone one.

Also when your DD is secondary age there's Nation, which is quite different but very good

I would avoid the Johnny series until a bit later. Some bits haven't aged well and are problematic, like Yo-less. She would need to have a good understanding of the problems with stereotypes.

Thank you everyone for all these insights! I had a sibling who read Discworld books aged prob about 11 or 12, but I never got into them myself.
Ordering Amazing Maurice too, it keeps coming up.

Ah yes, Rosemary Manning also rings a bell for me.

I would read Maurice before Tiffany but I would also read her the Johnny series - some things may need explaining but they are not beyond an enthusiastic 9 yr old reader.

She may also like Diana Wynne Jones books, the Earthsea series and Diane Duane's Wizard books (especially the early books in the series). For classic fantasies then the Hobbit and the Nesbits are good.

Does she also read stories from classic mythologies?

Not that I'm aware of, but I remember her talking about mythology once. She enjoys non-fiction too (those 'all about XY topic for children' type things) so may have picked it up from there.

She keeps getting very cross during the Bromeliad when one of the nomes makes a sexist comment, so I've been explaining that to her (that Pratchett is showinf how nome society develops and changes) so would probably understand about stereotyping.

typo, showing! Can't see the edit button.

Nation is wonderful. There's quite a lot of death at the beginning but it's handled sensitively. And it's interesting about sexism and cultural roles which is good if she is interested in that.

Thank you MrsTP!

A pretty apocalyptic level of death, from the boy's perspective! But (being Pratchett) it's not a teen dystopia.

Thank you again, everyone!

Reporting back to say that dd loved The Wee Free Men (I binge-read it to her over the Christmas break), and so did I. Have ordered A Hat Full of Sky, that should be OK too, right? (She's finding a few things - such as Scooby-Doo and Minecraft (!) - 'scary' atm, but seems to manage better with books than audiovisual stuff).

Crivens!