What lovely books do your 4/5 dd love?

[MilaMae]

We have masses but would like to give dd a couple of new ones for Xmas.

Wondering if we've missed any.

I have two boys so I'm not sure this will be much us. but
they loved Oliver Jeffers' books (and still do actually) especially The Way Back Home and Lost and Found. They also liked Room on the Broom and Marvin Wanted More (about a sheep who wants to be bigger so he eats and eats until he eats the whole world!)

Sharing a Shell is lovely too. It's got lots of glittery pictures through it.

Mog and Winnie the Witch are also popular in our house.

If she likes Angelina,this is lovely

Princess and the Wizard

nice interactive Peter Rabbit update I find the other B Potters a bit hard-going

Pirate Girl - good feminist message

current fave There's a Class 2 one too.

HTH

dd is 5 and loves this and the oliver moon books...not "girly" at all and henrietta in partic gets better with each read

my DD is 5 and she loves the Lettice books by Mandy Stanley

That's the age when they can just about sit still and listen to longer stories with not many pictures. The Sophie books by Dick King-Smith went down very well with DD at that age - it's a series of six (you can get them in two bumper books) which start when she is four turning five, and end when she's about seven. Very good if your DD is at all keen on animals. Also for reading aloud the Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf books.

My mum just gave our cousin's kids 2 of the Naughty Little Sister books which the BookPeople are selling a pack of 5 of quite cheaply. Apparently cousin's ds aged 7 and dd2 aged about 4 both really like them a lot. They are longer books but divided up into stories with some illustrations so would work well for bedtime reading and she can read them for herself in future.

Beverly Cleary's Ramona Quimby books are another suggestion, maybe slightly older.

Picture books - I think the Blue Kangaroo books are lovely.

all of the julia donaldson (gruffalo ect)
lettice rabit
the tiger who came to tea
the blue kangaroo books
but her favourite is this www.amazon.co.uk/Monkey-Bright-Blue-Bottom/dp/1845064585 she knows every word (and so do i grrr)

Emily Brown books are fab

Rainbow Fairies, and, um, more Rainbow Fairies She also liked the Faraway Tree etc and the Wishing Chair. Mostly tho, she likes Rainbow Fairies.

Naughty little sister

Milly Molly Mandy

Olga da Polga and Paddington

Horrid Henry (she is a bit of a tomboy)

Sophie stories by Dick King Smith infact she has also enjoyed lots of his animal stories

The owl that is afraid of the dark

The wishing tree etc that someone else recommended on here

Mrs Pepperpot

Red Nose Readers Collection (Allan Ahlberg & Colin McNaughton)

4 year old's newest favourite book is 'The Wolves in the Walls' by Neil Gaimen. It scares her, she loves it

My dd age 6 loves Magic Ballerina by Darcey Bussell. They're fun and not just for girls who like ballet, more fairy stories than ballet books. The chapters are a good length for reading aloud.

I see this thread is really old, but: this book is beautiful and I loved it when I was small. Would be a good gift too. I have already bought a copy even though DS is only 2 and DD not born yet!

A Time to Keep

It's not really a story, just has lovely images to pore over.

My DD favourite is The Gruffalo ... must know the story inside out!!!

Once there was a mouse, in a deep dark wood .....

My little boy loved the complete collection of Thomas the Tank Engine stories. There were the perfect length for bedtime stories and there were many of them. We read all them and then read them all again!

My DC are very much into The Gruffalo stories as well but I'm also trying to get them to read them some of the old classics such as Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan

DD got the Adventures of Pippi Longstocking for Christmas (The Lauren Child edition) and loves it. We are on the 3rd rereading.

my 5 year old currently loves
My Naughty Little Sister
Amelia Jane
Ramona Quimby

for being read to her.

and oddly enough the Traffic Safety books she gets through the mail. Pours over them loads