Ideas for reading books for my reception dd please

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My dd who is 4.9 and in reception is doing well with her reading. However, she is really reluctant to read the learning to read books she gets from school and the ones i have managed to find in the library as she says they are for babies. I don't know where she has got that idea from, but she shows no enthusiam at all in these books. She loves all things girly and i was wondering if anyone has any ideas on books i could get for her that she might be keen to read. She is on book band 3, knows phase 2 and some phase 3 sounds and can segment and blend pretty successfully.

My reception ds loves reading Topsy and Tim, he's a couple of levels up, but he's been reading them for some time so probably okay with some help. There's a fair number to choose from so you can probably find some that appeal.

My DD loves the Usborne First Reader or Young Reader books.

www.usborne.com/catalogue/catalogue.aspx?cat=1&area=YR&subcat=YRS1

They do a lot of fairy tales and girly books.

Sorry, I am useless with bookbands, we just get what DD finds interesting and we read it together and I help with difficult words.

I found that DD is reluctant to read herself when she is thinks her reading is too slow and she wants to go on with the story. She is used to hearing long chapter books so the little 1-2 sentence per page books she gets from school seem to bore her.

I preach that only practice will make her read faster but....

I don't know what book band 3 is, DD's in reception and her books home from school all have orange stickers on, if that helps at all.

She has just started reading the Rainbow Fairy books, which are incredibly girly and not remotely my cup of tea, however she has flown with them - for the first time she's asking to read every day, can't wait to do the next chapter.

The Usborne books mentioned above are good - I got a box set of 10 fairy tales for her for Christmas, but there are loads of alternatives too.

Other than that, she's enjoyed the StoryWorlds reading scheme books she had from school, think Heinneman/Pearson publish them.

We use reading chest, they send books to us as required, you can request fiction/non fiction and they're so much better than the stuff we get from school.
Google reading chest and you'll find it.

Karoleann, I just wondered why you pay for this service rather than use a local library?