Can anyone recommend books for very fluent (almost) y1 child - with colour pictures?

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Ds will be starting y1 in September. He's had a massive spurt with reading and is devouring books at home.

He can do all our picture books with very little trouble - familiarity might help here though as he has an epic memory.

I got out a couple of 'Sprinters' books - Jeremy Strong's Giant Jim and Colin McNaughton. Ds freaked and refused to try them as they didn't have colour pictures.

He's still very young so I totally understand his need for colour pictures, but I also think he would really like a more challenging read iyswim.

We're off to the library this morning to do their reading challenge. :)

Horrid Henry early readers look bright and cheerful :)

The gruffalo is a big favourite of my little ones.

Have a look for the Banana books in your local library. My dd especially loves the ones about the Mummy family by Tony Bradman and Martin Chatterton. They have lovely brightly coloured pictures and different levels green/blue/red www.egmont.co.uk/bananas/default.asp

She is also big on books having coloured pictures, the Happy Families series by Alan Ahlberg are great, and the puffin early readers (including witches dog series by Frank Rogers and the pirate school series by Jeremy Strong) have also got lovely coloured pictures and have been very popular.

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the Claude books are really good

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Aargh! Trying to say the Claude books are great!
My same aged DS loves tintin too. And Rupert. We read them together for understanding but he reads them to himself also.
He also loves Iggy Peck, Architect (illustrated by the chap that illustrated The Troll)

Usborne young Reader books. They come in various stages and all have colour pictures.

Not cheap but worth it.

Frog and Toad.

Colour crackers. My nearly y1 loves them. Titles such as Pipe Down Prudle, Tiny Tim, and Precious Potter, etc.

Second the recommendation for Usborne Young Reader books. There is also an Usborne First Readers series. They are chapter books, but with large print and colour pictures.

My DS is also starting Y1 in September, and like yours he is devouring books at home.

I found quite a lot of these Usborne books second hand through Amazon, so they were a bit cheaper and I was able to get hold of more of them.

Lots of interesting titles as well.

Ah, my recommendations have already been recommended - was going to say Happy Families and Pirate School too.

DS also chooses lots of non-fiction books, colourful and some of them very challenging reading but we help him or he helps us depending on how small the print is!

Dr Suess books? My DS2 is a young year 1 and has just got to the same stage.
He can manage most books, but still likes the picture ones, rather than horrid henry type. He just tends to read the picture books that he has in his bookshelf and ask about words he doesn't know.

Also - Colour Young Puffins - early chapter books with pictures

Blue banana series definitely then there are harder ones (red and yellow I think) so you could get one or two out of the library to find his level.

Happy Families and Colour Crackers worked here - but don't buy tons, it can be quite a short stage! If you have a friendly librarian, they will be able to point you at the right shelves - it gets more tricky at this point (at least at my library) as the books are in the general 6-10 shelving, and not the smaller and more easily browsable early readers bit.

For DD it has been quite a long stage. Shs is able to read longer books and is starting to, but she loves the colour crackers and so we ended up buying a set. Word of warning though... they have a page of groanworthy jokes at the back (How do you know it's been raining cats and dogs? You step in a poodle) which we get regaled with over and over again.

Roald Dahl - The Enormous Crocodile and The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me - are both prodouced in 'picture book' format as well as Young Puffin paperback. My two loved both of these. Also, Traction Man by Mini Grey has a really good story in a picture book setting.

I would look at books that develop other important reading skills eg inference. Books by Anthony Browne and Shaun Tann are brilliant for this and I have used them with children in KS2. Mini Grey has written several picture books which are very quirky and brilliant for confident readers, also Michael Morpurgo. Lots of information books also have bright illustrations and photos.

DS1 had this aversion to books with black and white pictures. At the time, Collins did some books with colour pictures and he happily read them.

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DS really loves the usborne 'see inside...' series. We have trains, planet earth, your head, and solar system. They're great books.

All early reader books especially horrid Henry , Miranda the explorer, there are loads of them all with great colour illustrations, frog and toad series, rita the rescuer, treetops, fully illustrated roald Dahl A4 size books. You can get level 10 to 12 biff chip kipper chapter books in colour where the children are older and can travel back in time. I can read series, try small wolf level 3 for a really interesting story and the now I can read series.