Good books for 5 yo girl

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My 5 yo is really enjoying reading at the moment and has just been put up to level 9 at school, so she's doing really well.

I'd like to get her some books for Christmas but would prefer a collection of relatively short books with pictures. She tends to get overfazed by longer books or those without pictures. Although her reading level is quite high for her age, in other ways she's quite young, so ideally it would be something, if not entirely fluffy, then relatively genteel in content.

I have a son who has been through all of this, so we unfortunately have Horrid Henry, etc. coming out of our ears. Is there a girlier version which is not quite so, well, horrid!

TIA

My dd enjoyed the Usborne books like this and the Young reading this

The Winnie the Witch chapter books are quite short stories with lots of pictures.

Happy Families series (think it is Allan Ahlberg) also short, lots of pictures and quite fun!

Thanks both, those all look like good ideas! She loves Winnie the Witch ....

My 5yo loves Clarice Bean, Mrs Pepperpot, the shorter Roald Dahl stuff (Esio Trot, The Twits, Magic Finger etc)

If you can bear it, the Rainbow Fairy books. Very dull for parents but little girls seem to love them and rattle through whole series of them.

I was going to say Rainbow fairy books to however they don't have many pictures so not sure if they are really what the op is after although for the reading level they are about right, certainly the first rainbow fairy stories.
I would second the Winnie the witch books, very well love by mine. I found that my dd was scared by some Roald Dahl stories at the age of 5, she still can't face fantastic me fox, she got so worried for poor Mr Fox when the diggers were digging out his home!

The original Little Princess books are great for this age - huge pictures, not too many words. You could also try Charlie & Lola, and Dr Seuss.

My DD aged 5 likes those usborne young reading ones - has a few - her favourite is a midsummer night's dream.

Also likes reading princess evie's ponies which have nice illustrations.

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll go and look some of these up.

The Book People website is good for collections, and I think the Winnie the Witch collection mentioned here might still be available at a very reasonable price. They also have all Roald Dahl's books, but you could just give her the suitable ones now - I adored Fantastic Mr Fox at 5 but the BFG might be a better one for your daughter.

There are also a few books which are collections of stories about the characters, eg My Naughty Little Sister and Milly Molly Mandy (these are quite old fashioned I know), so you and your daughter could just read one story at at a time (I don't know about more up to date equivalents!)

And there are lots of editions of fairy tales and retellings.

Enid Blyton Wishing Chair books. They are short chapter books with not too many words on each page and some pictures.

DD stills reads them occasionally now (at 7) as she can read them quickly!

We have most of the Roald Dahl ones already so I can always try her on those. Some of these names are sounding familiar from my own childhood, I'm off to Amazon or the Book People now.

Thank you all for your help.

if you'd like picture books rather than chapter books, there are picture-book versions of the Little House Books, called My First Little House books, with lovely illustrations. There are about 5-7 lines of text on each page, in fairly large print. DD (4.9) loves them, although she isn't reading them by herself yet.

e.g. Summertime in the Big Woods. We also have Winter Days in the Big Woods, and Christmas in the Big Woods is on the way for Christmas.

I like the Usborne ones as well. The Usborne site has sample pages for nearly all the books in the First Reading series (and the Young Reading ones too, I think) which is very useful. (The sample pages links are either next to the book jacket or hiding at the right hand side of the page).

How about Katie Morag? Loads of lovely pictures, and a simple story which you can either read to your DD or she can read by herself.

My dd sounds almost the same as your dd. She is now free reading at school but hasn't got the stamina for long chapter books with few pictures. She is enjoying reading all her bedtime story books from when she was younger (so things like Hairy McClairy, whinnie the witch etc). Basically all the picture story books. Elmer is another one she is loving at the moment.

I'm also starting to build up her reading stamina with shorter chapter books. So some Usbourne books are good pictures and have short chapters. Dick King Smith books she likes. Winnie the Pooh is another popular one.