Sorry, my hotmail's playing up so I've had to post instead of emailing!
Can you think of any books that DD might enjoy reading by herself? We're at an odd stage as she wants things she can read but she doesn't quite have the will to persevere through longer books and refuses point blank to read chapters in stories she enjoys having read to her like "Horrid Henry" and the sickly "Rainbow Fairies" because the pictures are "too boring".
This was probably a long time ago for you, but we spent an hour in Waterstones and ended up buying a kiddy Atlas!