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Just wanted to recommend the Usbourne Puzzle Collection of books. We recently came across them and my ds(6) loves them - in fact you can't stop him reading them which is surely what it is all about. Not sure what book band they would be but my ds is on bb 7 and can read the books fine.
Really good for getting them excited about reading.

Will have a look on amazon - DS Y1 is a reluctant but not bad reader, he loved ORT until Level 3. Most of the Level 4 stories don't seem to excite him any more. This weekend we used an Usbourne Cookbook and he baked a cake reading the instructions himself (with help), but we can't bake every day.

We have one of those and it's great. I'd guess about book band 5 or 6 would be enough to read them independently.

Not quite sure which ones you mean - Puzzle Adventures? Are they story books, puzzle books or both? Will he be able to read them/soonish? What does book band 5/6 mean? DS is on ORT4.

yes I think he'd manage soonish if on ORT 4. Might need a bit of help first.
They are things like 'Puzzle Train' - search on that in google and the rest of the series should come up.

They are both a story and a puzzle book - hard to explain.

My DS had the Puzzle Dinosaur one and he loved it too. In fact, he loves all books where there is activity as well as reading. He likes reading with a purpose.

If he likes those, you could try Usborne 1001 things to spot, or maybe in a year's time the Search ones by Usborne eg Great World Search, Great Animal Search etc. The Search ones are educational and informative, whereas the Where's Wally type ones don't really teach them much or have much reading in.