roughly what age do you start reading chapter books to little ones?

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Ds is 3.9 and I am sure I seen people on here talking of reading chapter books to their little ones at this age. I just wondered what age they are usually able to cope without so many pictures and to understand that they only get a few chapters rather than whole books! I know they all develop differently just wondered what sort of age!

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Who wrote George's Marvellous Medicine .. I have never heard of that one! I am a huge fan of buying books from charity shops and our town has about 6 of them fortunately!

It will be interesting to see whether ds has the attention span. I am not sure he will like the idea of only getting part of a book ... I did read him the roald dahl enormous crocodile recently but i managed it in one sitting and there are still loads of pictures in it!

George's Marvellous Medicine is a Roald Dahl book.

We tried reading chapters to dd when she just turned four and she was not interested at all, and told us so! We tried again six months later and she really enjoyed it.

My susggestion is to choose a book with fairly short chapters to start off with, he will soon let you know if he is not ready yet!

ds was 4 1/2 when he started liking them. We'd tried a little earlier but there was no point.

Started him on Roald Dahl which he loves.

He hates Horrid Henry because he's too naughty

we started very young as in 4-6 months they didnt care what was being read.usually enid blyton etc.

My 4.5 yo only listens to chapter books under duress (if we're reading to her big sisters).
dd2 listened to them at just 4, I think, but currently dd3 likes the more complex picture books better.

About 4.5. Had a brief try before that, but she got bored.