My kids had a book club today.....

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we were giving one of dd1s friend a lift and they started comparing their reading books
(friend is 7, dd1 6 dd2 5) then moved on to the BEST books in the world (dd1) Daisy Meadows,rainbow fairies

DD (6.10) has just discovered the Rainbow fairies, and is obsessed with them. Load of tosh, but if it keeps them interested in reading, who cares, I think. As well as reading them herself, she also often chooses one as a bedtime story (not all in one night, obviously) and I do feel a complete prat reading it out.

DD1 reads loads of decent stuff but these are her favourite!

DD has also discovered something called 'The Tiara Club' about a school for princesses, or something. Only has one of those (so far) though. The perils of giving her pocket money (although I guess she could find worse things to spend her money on than books).

We have those too!
dd1 went a bitr mad the other day making an xmas list in waterstones, you have never seen so many fairy books

I am soooo glad that ddd can read these herself, they drive me to tears.....leaving me with the Secret Seven.

dd wants to be called Barbara now

Lucycat. I am guilty of feeing DD's fairy habit by buying her these (but also some Roald Dahl and Winnie the Witch ones) for Christmas .

oh yes I've ordered those for dd for Christmas too - they may not be classics but I'm just so pleased that she likes reading so much!

bit of peace and quiet too as she reads them out loud to dd2! {fgrin]

my first festive emoticon!

(or not, as the case may be)

crap

should've stuck to the usual

...

My dd's reading habits sound very like yours dd's, she's 6.6 and loves Magic Unicorn as well as the Tiara club or anything about mermaids!

Her school book this week is about Pele!! mmm slight difference

Pele - that sounds more like it, Lucycat. DD does like having other books read to her, and she will read other stuff, but she's not long discovered these ones, and it's all still a novelty to her. As I said, one of these books is better than no book at all.

Absolutely!

it's lovely when they just pick up a book and retreat into their own little world.

have you seen the Rainbow Magic website? Here's a link to it
You realise just how rolling in it Daisy Meadows must be when you see how many books she's written!!

Oh wow - I didn't realise there was a website - DD will be in heaven. Thank you for that.

You did know Daisy Meadows isn't one person?

Dd1 reads them to dd2 too!Isn't it great!
I am on the Famous Five!

MY DD2 (6) has also started reading these to herself now which is a great relief obviously. Lord how I hate Daisy Meadowes and all her works (must be nearly as many people writing them as the Animal Ark books). DD also loves Linda Chapman's stuff (she IS a real person I believe) - the Secret Unicorn and Magic by Moonlight series' - and they are easier to read out loud than the dreaded Rainbow Fairies, and have the merits of having slightly different plots each time.
The main thing is that they get pleasure from reading anyway,or so I keep telling myself. Anyway DD1 is 9 and has moved on from all of this to much more interesting books - is reading I Coriander atm which I am begging to read out loud to her because it is so good, but she keeps sneaking it off to read by herself.