Reading books

[Beansontoast78]

My daughter is just about to start year one next week and am struggling to find her new books to read at home. She is currently on orange band books if that helps.... She still enjoys the Julia Donaldson books but knows these off by heart so isn’t actually reading the words. We also got her the rainbow fairy books but she isn’t quite ready to read these her self and I don’t really think she enjoys the fairy tale type story. Do you have any suggestions for more ‘real life/everyday’ type books that she can get into and read herself? Thankyou

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Dr Seuss, mr men, happy families, funny bones, picture books in general

Look in the library at the early readers

have you got The Lighthouse Keeper ones? those are nice stories, not fairy tale like, lovely pictures and bit longer than lots of picture books but not as daunting as early chapter books, they have done some as early reader type books too. Also Katie Morg, again bit longer than some other picture books. We have had some other "old favourites" from the picture book bordering wanting longer book stage including A Kitten Called Moonlight. Will have a look upstairs in a bit, my 9 year old still refuses to part with some as she loves them.

'The Magic Treehouse' is a series of short chapter books at approximately purple level. If your child is confident on orange, they can probably manage them, perhaps if you break them up a bit rather than reading them all in one go as my DS liked to do.

They are about a brother&sister who come across a treehouse full of books. Whenever they open a book about a certain topic and say 'I wish I was there' they are magically transported to that time/place (e.g. dinosaurs, ancient Greece, Japan in the age of ninjas, ... There are over a hundred of them I think) and have a little adventure.

This series was the stepping stone into reading his own chapter books for my DS. Each book is really quite short, so manageable, and there are illustrations (though black&white). Really good length for keeping interest and gradually building up reading stamina.
Importantly though, you can build on your child's interests. So eg DS was really into ninjas so that was the first Magic Treehouse book I gave him. Then he wanted to know what happens next (each book is a complete story, but four together form a mini series with an overarching storyline). The books are fairly well researched, so impart real-world knowledge on a huge range of topics, and though there is that element of magic (the treehouse itself), they can definitely appeal to a child interested in 'real' things. And because they cover just about any topic you can imagine, all you have to do is find the one on your child's favourite thing.

Harry and the Dinosaurs
Clarice Bean (the picture books rather than the chapter books)
Katie Morag

Horrid Henry young reader books are my daughter's favourite. I read them to her first, but she reads them herself now.

I second the library (will save you a fortune).

I second the Horrid Henry early reader books. I've also found they are really good for modelling a balanced modern relationship between Henry's parents (eg Dad makes the packed lunches etc).

HH are more purple/gold though tbh

But I hate HHs parents tbh

Dd liked isadora moon
Squishy mcfluff.
There is a list of real books at book bands if you search in MN

Also look at comics.