ideas for a 6 year old with a reading age of 9 please!

[karise]

Hi,
We've discovered rainbow magic! DD seems to think this means that she never needs to read anyting else now, even if they are a bit easy!
Started on some Ugenia Lavender & Agent Amelia both of which she loves, just wondered if anybody has any other ideas as she's getting through at least 2 books a day Thanks for any help!

this is lovely for any age

Does she like Animal Ark? There are hundreds of them and they are very popular so should be easy to get from libraries.
My DD is 6 and also hates sad bits - she loved Little House in the Big Woods et al, but stop before you get to the one where Laura's dog dies if she is an animal lover! The Little Princess reduced her to floods of tears. Professor Branestawm are good as silly and not stressful at all. The Naughtiest Girl in the School is another current favourite
She also loves almost anything adventure-y by Enid Blyton, liked Ballet Shoes, likes the Swallows & Amazons books (we read them to her first, not sure she would have read them on her own otherwise), all the Paddington books, Anna Hibiscus (by Atinuke), the Cressida Cowell dragon books.

How about Pippi Lonstockings?

And the Clarice Bean books.

We read the Clarice Bean books together as they are so long- but she is a real fan!
Some of the comments go a bit over her head but she gets most of them
How long are the Pippi's?

We got the Horrid Henry obsession over with back in the summer thank goodness
Got some more rainbow magic's from the library last night & she's read 3 already

Make that 4 rainbow magic's!!!!!!!!!!!

those rainbow magic books are awful, but my dd loves them too

they do churn them out though, don,t they?

Every time you turn around there is another set of the flipping things. DD3 has inherited all DD1 & 2's collection and is now demanding more - we are drowning in them chez Palliser.

Karise - there is a really nice edition of Pippi with illustrations by Lauren Child that I got for DD2 last Christmas from Book People or Red House.

They don't seem to have it any more but may I also recommend this which I got DD3 for her birthday and is fab.

LoL at the Palliser household drowning in Rainbow Magic books.
I trust you have a suitably improving book of Victorian sermons for Nurse to read to the children on Sundays

Yes, obviously no novels on Sunday. And of course Nurse reads them the dreadful things, I am too busy entertaining dear Plantagent's political colleagues.

We have a deal at the library. DD1 gets to choose two books (inevitably Rainbow Magic, Pony-loving Princess or similar) and I get to choose two.

As a result of my choices, she has discovered that she loves Secret Seven, Worst Witch and anything by Dick King-Smith. Although we haven't tried Charlotte's Web yet.

She's six as well.

This is a lovely book with all the classics plus. DD1-9 loved it and DD2-6 is loving it now. Both read well above their ages so a child of six reading at a 9-year-old level would probably love it as mine does.

CHILDREN'S CLASSIC STORIES: FAIRYTALES, FABLES AND FOLKTALES

The Judy Moody books - dd amazed us in the summer (age 6) by knowing where Costa Rica was, thanks to Judy!

dd is 6 and loves...

all Roald Dahl
most Enid Blyton - has enjoyed Faraway Tree, Wishing Chair, Secret Seven, and is now on St Clare's series
also loved Worst Witch series
and really enjoyed The Secret Garden

DD1 loved www.borders.co.uk/book/a-bear-called-paddington/130263/ and other books in the same collection.

Secret Garden and The Railway Children were 2 of DDs faves.

i'd go old fashioned (from our youth or even earlier)

just william series
anything by noel streatfield or E Nesbit
pollyanna
anne of green gables
little house on the prarie
little women (perhaps)
what katy did
harriet the spy

At last count I think we have about 40 Rainbow Magic's out the way and finished with now ! Only another 40 to go- got it down to about 15 mins per book now too so might even get them out the way by Xmas!
We are getting through 18 library books a fortnight at the moment of which about half are R M's- I wish she would do something other than reading I think the library are going to run out soon!
Has got into her head that she wants to read the whole of Clarice Bean's 'Don't Look Now' before she reads anymore library books, thinks it's funny she might read a 200 page book quicker than Mummy can read her grown up book so that might keep her busy for a while!
Have ordered EB Faraway Tree series from Waterstones & just received Peter Pan & Peter Pan in Scarlet in the post so I hope they might keep her going. She's also discovered 'Jake Cake' too.
I can't believe how quickly we are moving from 100 page books to 200! Just when I'd bought a load of 100 page ones for xmas too
Hey ho! We plod on

I wouldn't worry too much about the Rainbow Magic - last year my DD (then age 5) was obsessed with them in September, still made keen in November so I ordered a couple of the christmassy ones - by mid December they were definitely soooo last month, by February she was condemning Sparkle World magazine as 'babyish'. Since then we have been through Animal Ark, Famous Five, Five Find Outers, Naughtiest girl and at the moment Secret Seven is the flavour of the month. She'll still read the others from time to time (partly as our library is so small there isn't much option but to get the same books out over & over again). I'm just hoping Secret Seven hangs in there til Christmas!

Loved reading through this thrad! My daughter is 7 and reads books all the time and so quickly! She's obsessed with Rainbow Magic too, but also enjoys Harry Potter (although she has just finished book 4 and I think they're getting too old for her now, so going to ask her to wait a bit before she reads the others), Judy Moody, Magic Faraway Tree, some Michael Murpurgo books, Matilda by Dahl, the Humphrey books (can't remember author, but about a school hamster), The Little Princess. Some great suggestions here, including Ramona that I hadn't heard of, and have now ordered the first one to see how she gets on with that. Keep the suggestions coming!