Can anyone recommend a book that has a longer story but is for a beginner please?

[SoullessButSunny]

My DD loves reading and is confidently reading green level at school.

She's asked for a bookmark for Christmas!!

I want to get her a bigger book so she can use the bookmark but the only books I can find at her level are shorter stories i.e Biff, Chip and Kipper types.

Can anyone recommend a book that would suit her level but has a longer story please?

TIA

Can't think of any long books for green level but by christmas she'll probably be on longer books. Dick king smith, rainbow fairies, the 'daisy' books etc
Even if you are reading the books to her she could still use the bookmark.

Book treasuries or collections are also good for bookmark use!

The easier Flora the Fairy books are good.

There are some blue (possibly green I forget) banana books (equivalent of stage 7) Flat Stanley books which are easier than the normal Flat Stanley ones.

Have a look at 'Little Animal Ark' and 'Princess Poppy'. They might do the job? (The Book People have a set of Princess Poppy First Readers at the moment - 10 for £9.99) Have a look on Amazon and you can 'look inside' to judge level...

This link has a few real books by stage, although not sure how long they are:

www.essex.gov.uk/Libraries-Archives/libraries/childrens-library/Documents/Books_for_children_beginning_to_read.pdf

The colours they use don't match but the stages do - I think green is stage 5.

green is stage 5, most books that are a bit longer are probably at least stage 7 to be honest but by Christmas this is perfectly feasible depending on her progress.

I would probably look at things like 'The Kitten with No Name' by Vivian French or Julia Donaldson 'The Quick Brown Fox Cub' and 'The Wrong Kind of Bark'.

I don't know what sort of level these ones are but they say they are 'written to support the development of vocabulary, sentence and story creation skills that young children will be introduced to in the early years of school' and that they are for children starting to read longer stories for the first time so might be worth a look. We have the original Princess Poppy books but I haven't looked at the text closely enough to know what sort of level they are - my 2 are reading different things at the moment.
www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?productId=424277&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&categoryId=116707

Thank you everyone.

I think I'm going to order the Princess Poppy ones from the book people. I'll split the 10 books between DD and her brother for Christmas (he's only the reading level below her and likes princess stories too!).

thegamesafoot Looks like green is stage 5 because DD is reading 'Gran' and 'Castle Adventures' at the moment and they are labelled as stage 5 on your link.

What about some Dr Zeuss? Green Eggs and Ham, the Cat in the Hat (and Comes Back)

these are just a few suggestions of books you may have or find in the library and their equivalent levels (I didn't do this list although it is on my blog, I got it off a school supplier website)

Book Band 5 – Green

Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose – Julia Donaldson

I’m Not Cute – Jonathan Allen

Not Now Bernard – David McKee

Where’s My Teddy – Jez Alborough

Book Band 6 – Orange

Annie Rose is my Little Sister – Shirley Hughes

Mr Pod and Mr Picalilli – Penny Dolan

Peace at Last – Jill Murphy

This is the Bear – Sarah Hayes

Book Band 7 – Turquoise

The Elephant and the Bad Baby – Elfrida Vipont

The Fish Who Could Wish – John Bush

Funnybones – Janet and Allan Ahlberg

Mog and the Baby – Judith Kerr

Mr Tubs is Lost – Bel Mooney

My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes – Eve Sutton

A Squash and a Squeeze – Julia Donaldson

Sleep Tight Little Bear – Martin Waddell

Book Band 8 – Purple

The Elmer Books – David McKee

The Winnie the Witch Books – Valerie Thomas

Magic Lemonade – Joyce Dunbar

Owl Babies – Martin Waddell

Follow the Swallow – Julia Donaldson

Most Usborne Beginners non fiction books

Book Band 9 – Gold

Can’t you Sleep Little Bear – Martin Waddell

The Large Family Books – Jill Murphy

Rumble in the Jungle – Giles Andreae

Who Loves Mr Tubs – Bel Mooney

Book Band 10 – White

Dogger – Shirley Hughes

The Queen’s Knickers – Nicholas Allen

The Quick Brown Fox Cub- Julia Donaldson

The Wrong Kind of Bark – Julia Donaldson

Scarface Claw – Lynley Dodd

Most Usborne Young Readers Series One books

Book Band 11 – Lime

Anna Hibiscus books – Atinuke

Winnie the Witch chapter books – Laura Owen

Horrid Henry books – Francesa Simon

insanityscratching My parents have the Dr Zeuss collection so we read that when we visit them.

Thank you Periwinkle007, that's a very useful list.

I thought Horrid Henry was stage 12? That is where my DC school have it (not that it matters!)

Early reader books are good, DD will still re-read hers.

I've also purchased the princess poppy first readers for dd2. She is on the same reading level. Having already received the books, I think they are perfect. I'd love her to be reading something less 'princess ish', however, I know this is perfect for getting her into reading and making her feel empowered and giving her the thirst to read more.

ah - they might be Simpson - the list I took them off seemed a bit hard to tell what was lime and what was beyond lime as both were green!

I also think some Horrid Henry books are harder than others too which does not help with levelling them

Hi Soullessbutsunny

We found the Sally Gardner Early Reader Princess story series (can get through Amazon, large news agents & book stores) really good. They're in chapters but still illustrated.

We found them a nice bridge before formal chapter books and DD loves stories about princesses.

Sally Gardner link here: www.sallygardner.net/books/early-readers/

Amazon has a look inside feature for Cinderlla here: www.amazon.co.uk/Cinderella-Early-Reader-Readers-ebook/dp/B00654KNFW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1384253251&sr=8-4&keywords=sally+gardner+early+reader

My DDs both also read the rainbow magic fairies at this in between stage when they wanted to be reading 'big girl' books but weren't quite ready.

HTH

Thanks everyone.

I'm also going to get some of the early reader books from Amazon.

Their birthday is in January so I'll split the books between them and then spread over xmas/birthday.