Wider reading

[raven99]

Hi all. I hope you can help. I am keen for my year 5 daughter to read a variety of different genres. She enjoys reading. Can you please suggest some books your daughter enjoyed under the different genres. TIA

Can you get to a local library and check out what she might be interested in? We have a variety of fiction books and educational stuff like science, nature, space etc. Really depends what’s she’s into.

Great ones are things like the cat in the hat, Beatrix potter and Winnie the Pooh books, but my dd loves anything like the gruffalo. I think we have just about every book by Julia Donaldson!

Mine love the historium and animalium books. Beautifully illustrated and ds would spend hours reading through all the animals with me at that age. Anything on science and nature has been a great hit. Some of the words are long, so these are definitely books to read with them.

For learning to read, there’s plenty of phonics books too. They are really short and have helped build confidence in reading.

kids magazines are fab too. Lots of things to make, puzzles, colouring etc.

Have a look on this board or ask for this post to be moved there for more responses. Currently has a thread on travel books for 5 year olds.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/childrens_books

Roald Dahl (eg the Enormous Crocodile)
Enid Blyton Faraway Tree books
Horrid Henry (some are aimed at early readers)
If you're keen on different genres, maybe some non fiction, eg the Usborne books?

Bumping so people can add some Year 5 (10 years old) suggestions.
I've been recommended The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke and the Spy School series by Stuart Gibbs

Around that age I started to enjoy Judith Kerr's autobiographical works - When Hitler Stoke Pink Rabbit and then the later books. They're set in different countries during WW2 so have so different cultural and historical references

Lots of the classics - Little Princess, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, Black Beauty.

Horror wise, I started to read some of Agatha Christine's less gruesome works as well

At that age my (willing reader) DD liked:

• little house on the prairie
• the Eva Ibbotson books (journey to the river sea etc)
• the Huntress Trilogy by Sarah Driver
• Percy Jackson

My other daughter is a more reluctant reader but I've had great success getting her to read July Blume. "Are you there God? it's me Margaret" might be the first book she has ever finished. I was a voracious reader and to this day I adore Judy Blume.