Reading books

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Can anyone recommend some books that are reading schemes that are the equivalent to level 2 / 3 and are interesting to a girl who is into fairies, princesses and animals. She's reading the school books out of necessity not because she actually wants to. She's asked for more interesting books to read but I went to the book shop and looked in the age 5+ section and it was all too hard for her. I found some Rainbow Fairy books which I'm sure she'll love when she's at that level but she's not there yet. We've pretty much exhausted the local library's stock of fairy books that she can read and she's pining over books she can't manage (she's loving looking at the animal reference books).

That should have said "that aren't reading schemes".

Anyone?

Not too sure what you mean by level 2/3. Is that Year 2/3, or ORT level 2/3 or book bands level 2/3? what age is your dd?

If you mean ORT2/3 then the choice is very limited. Have a look at the bananas books and the usborne books.

TBH non reading scheme books generally are for children who are at least ORT 6/7.

I'd just get any book she likes the look of out of the library and read it to her, then if the print happens to be big enough and a 'sensible' font point to the words you know she can read so she reads part and so do you and she gets a nice story.
There's a series by Nick Sharrat with 'Pointy hatted Princesses' and 'Monday Runday@ in it that's good and also some of the Dr Seuss .

Check your local public library, ours have very simple early readers, like The Little Giraffe, that I imagine would meet your needs.