Easy chapter books for a 5/6 year old?

[LadyLetch]

My DD2 wants some 'grown up' books of her own (ie not hand me downs from DD1) for Christmas. By that, she means chapter books.

At the moment, she is reading Amelia Jane (Enid Blyton) and we have got the wretched Bollocks the bloody fairy book set as well.

So apart from these two, what would you suggest? She is a good, but not amazing reader (is comfortable reading purple book bands) and is in year 1, so will be 6 soon.

Anna Hibiscus
My Naughty Little Sister
The Worst Witch

My DD loves the Bewilderwood books too, but I read those to her.

the worst witch and horrid henry are my (just) 6yr old dds favourites

Ricky Ricotta series, if she's into space/robots etc

At that age I loved the Pongwiffy books- though I was a very able reader. Her other books about Sir Quinten Quest and the yeti, and Big Iggy were also read over and over when I was a child.

Winnie the Witch used to be a favourite of dd's at that age.

Ooh, was going to suggest that godawful fairy set
How about some of the Dr Seuss books? Funny and easy reading. Also, my DD nearly 7 has always enjoyed the Mr Men books. And there are some smaller Roald Dahl books too.

There's a nice Roald Dahl box set for £15 from the book people :)

Thank you. We've already got the worst witch books. I think she'd really like my naughty little sister books and Winnie the witch, so I'll look at those especially.

Thank you all

Second the Anna Hibiscus and Roald Dahl suggestions, we are in the middle of yet more fairies at the moment though.

DD is getting The Magic Faraway tree and the two other books in the same series for Christmas as well as more fairies, there seems to be hundreds of them!

DS is enjoying the magic faraway tree books although I have been mostly reading them to him. Might get him the Wishing Chair Collection for christmas