Needing ideas for a 5yo bookworm (female)? - here you are

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We've just come back from a holiday house full of battered children's books going back 40 years & from this would hugely recommend:

Gwynedd Rae's Mary Plain series - there are luckily at least 10 of them

Alf Proysen's Mrs Pepperpot stories - there's a collection out currently, so no need to haunt second-hand shops

Finn Family Moomintroll The Borrowers (Mary Norton) and The Rescuers (Margery Sharp)

Pippi Longstocking

Oh I loved The Borrowers!

My DD has just started reading Famous Five books

bink - welcome back! How was the break?

Are these mainly "read aloud" to your child, or ones that they can manage on their own?

For reading aloud (unless the 5 year old is a very good reader) the Jeremy James books by David Henry Wilson Elephants Don't Sit on Cars etc - they're full of bits the adult who is reading can appreciate too.

Earlybird, all of them would be good to read aloud, specially Mary Plain, which even ds found himself accidentally enjoying. However dd is a fluent reader herself now, so my problem has always been to find stuff which is not too old for her in content - so the cosiness of books from 30-40 years ago is just perfect for her.

As example you'll understand exactly, she's just starting Charlotte's Web now.

And thank you rustybear and MamaG - library calls!

the family from one street is delightful too.

There are several moomin books

Also, Astrid Lindgren, who wrote Pippi Longstocking, wrote lots of books.

I can thouroughly recommend Lindgren's "the children of noisy village" and happy times in noisy village.

The Milly-Molly-Mandy series by Joyce Lankester Brisley.