Alternatives to Biff, Kipper and Chip for 6yo dyslexic DS

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DS is 6 nearly 7 and has moderate dyslexia.

However he is bored bored bored of Kipper, Biff and Chip. Books for his age are no good for him at present.

What he wants are books of things boys are interested in, but at a reading age of 4-5 if you get what I mean eg: no masses of text, smaller sentances etc.

Captain Underpants and Astrosaurus are not good.

Any ideas/suggestions?

Wonder if it is worth trying these? Or others by them. I bought these for my dts, I'd say they are suitable for 4-5 reading age, but some are very funny and I think they would appeal to slightly older children.

try the Usborne young reading/first reading scheme
usborne website

they're tiered for ability and they have some great stories: some fairy tales, but also classics retold and folk tales.

or the bananas scheme by egmont such as 9781405218771 the mummy family stories.
(again tiered)

or Zig Zag (not sure how available they are right now, though: might be out of print)

bananas series

Have you tried the Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot series? It's by the Captain Underpants guy, (Dav Pilkey) so pretty funny and irreverent but aimed at a slightly younger audience, and a much easier read. Worth borrowing from the library I'd say.

Also have you tried the old Mr Men books? I'm going through them with my five year old, but my seven year old dd still enjoys them. For the most part they've got very short pages and a lot of repetition so they might suit your ds.

Or comics of course - perhaps The Beano (you should be able to pick up this year's Beano and Dandy annuals for 99p in the Waterstones/WH Smith sales at the moment). My geeky ds has some much loved Star Wars Clone Wars Adventures books like this one which are very low reading age, and I'm sure there are equivalents for whatever your ds is into (incredibly expensive per word though, so worth looking for in the library).

(actually I take it back about the Clone Wars books, having flicked through again and found "density projector" and "collective consciousness" in amongst the low word-count pages). However I bet there are some lower reading age Ben 10 comics out though.

We bashed away with boring Biff, Chip and Kipper. I could never work out who was Biff, Chip or Kipper either which confused things no end.

The books which really got dd moving with reading though were Dr Seuss Cat in the Hat. They bounce along, they're funny and silly, nice to read and the child feels like they're really getting somewhere which is rather satisfying.

Once she's got the hang of Dr Seuss she never looked back.