Books to read to a 6 year old boy? (and books for his reading age)

[Jodee]

DS is loving all the Horrid Henry books, can anyone recommend anything similar?

Also, what books can I get to help him with his reading? School follows JP but with a mish mash of ORT and other books. I think ds is on level 4, we have a colour-coding system. I would like to get him some other reading material to keep at home - I think someone recommend Apple Tree Farm, but I am open to suggestions please.

Hi Jodee - Long time no speak etc

At the risk of sounding like the Mumsnet police, "have you had a look in the archives"? It's just I remember there being quite a few threads on this a while back - might have even started one myself!

DS1 is also 6 (in Year 1) and I have also struggled to know what to get him to augment the ORT books.
In terms of reading to him, we found Jeremy Strong books good, and even boxed sets of paperback non-fiction - he loved a series from The Book People called, "I wonder why..".

At Christmas he got a collection of books (from WH Smith) called 'Not for Girls' which had Horrid Henry + others in.
Just very recently we've discovered the 'Captain Fact' series which is sort of fiction + fact and a bit of superhero! He loves these, and is now reading them himself. (Not to be confused with Capatain Underpants, which someone recommended, and is utter rubbish!)

DH reads Harry Potter to him too.

\link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=1377&threadid=136111#2881644\This thread} might be useful!

or \link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=2403&threadid=176410#3660300\here}? ( love the name by the way, I do feel all the best people are called jodee/ie )

Hi Mo2, definitely long time etc... hope you are well! Oh aren't those Surrey girls strict - you sussed my laziness. Thanks for the suggestions, will search out Jeremy Strong and avoid Captain Underpants.

thanks for the thread links, hd and kipper22, most useful (and kipper thanks, wish I had been a bit more anonymous but too late now!)