Young free readers - what do they enjoy?

[PhoebeMcPeePee]

Actually I've no idea if 6 is young or not , but my post is about trying to find some decent books for a 6 year old boy who can read very fluently but struggling to find age-appropriate books. At school the 'library book' ie non-banded section is full of Michael morpurgo, Harry potter, Percy Jackson etc which I really think are too old for him & guessing they're more 8/9yrs+.

Any suggestions apart from famous five & Roald Dahl?

Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Tom Gates

All the Walliams books.

Faraway tree?

If your DS likes learning facts too then Robert E Wells has written a nice collection of books that will interest him
eg Can you count to a Googol? What's smaller than a pygmy shrew? Did a dinosaur drink my water?

My DD is 5 and a "free reader" since Christmas, though given she's in YR I'm not sure about this. I think she may have skipped some of the groundwork... She doesn't have alot of stamina either. So far we have tried the following:

The enchanted wood
The fox busters and the first Sophie book by Dick King Smith
Flat Stanley
The Worst Witch
The owl who was afraid of the dark
Horrid Henry
Pippi Longstocking

In most of these cases we read them as bedtime stories and we alternate pages to get through a chapter.

What she has been better at has been poetry (a poem is after all much shorter). We like Please Mrs Butler, a couple of the books of Dick King Smith poems and A child's garden of verse. Funny poems are a real hit. We've even read some Spike Milligan (I eat my peas with honey...)

Also the book people do a box of Orion Early Readers. These she will read on her own for pleasure. It was £24 for 30 books and a really good investment from my perspective.

Eva Ibbotson's younger books, The Gumbles, The Worst Witch, Goodnight Mr Tom?

What she has been better at has been poetry (a poem is after all much shorter).

MY eldest is obsessed with Michael Rosen, we've got 'Bananas in my Ears' and she regularly reads it from cover to cover.

Tracey Corderoy has written a few easier chapter books which are funny and completely non-alarming. There are two in a series about a magical granny (Hubble Bubble) and two with a family called the Crumbs. Also try Jo Simmons - three books in a series called Pip Street with great characters and also completely non-threatening. Neither of these suggestions is at all hard to read for a fluent reader, but they are great fun and have nice pictures as well as the text. Also look at the Claude series by Alex T Smith - again, v easy but just lots of fun. I'd say all of these would stand up to rereading - DD aged 7 and a complete wuss about scary stories loves them (and can read much harder things these days) but she seized on the latest Pip Street in a bookshop earlier today and literally fell on the floor and begged for it. That level of desire for a book is something I am happy to encourage, even if it's not much of a challenge for her!

gamescompendium - How can a Pigeon be a war hero looks good.

DD (6) is more into WW2 & read a book about it and about Anne Frank (not her diary though).

She has also read a book about Louis Braille & Helen Keller which fascinated her for ages (it was re-read several times).

She also liked a book by Gillian Clements "Great events: The Great Fire of London"

Zoe's rescue zoo series is nice. Also what about stig of the dump?

DD (yr2) chooses Beastquest and SeaQuest books from school readers if given the chance.. It is respite from Rainbow Magic Fairy and assorted pony and pet rescue books. Dick King Smith books crop up once in a while.

At home, I like to throw in a few "oldies" like Enid Blyton, CS Lewis etc.
What we tend to do at bedtime is that we will start reading a few chapters aloud then leave her to read on for 10 minutes before lights-out and/or let her read on in the morning.

We are lucky have a library close by with an extensive kid's section so I tend to steer her towards authors who have more than a couple of books under their belt (okay, that i a bit lazy of me)

Our latest "must read" author is Paul Stewart (assisted by great Chris Riddell drawings).

go on amazon choose any of the books mentioned read rewviews and look at other recomendations....chris stewart also good.