Books for 6 year old

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DD is (very recently) 6, a good reader and (according to teachers) very clever. This means that a lot of books aimed at her age group don’t quite work for her as they are a bit too simple in both ideas and execution.*

BUT, she is still very young and cannot cope with even the mildest of mild peril, e.g. she flicks to the end of an Isadora Moon book to make sure it has a happy ending before she’ll read it, even though they are so mild!

Can anyone recommend any books for a child like this please? She loves language so enjoys some poetry, talking about the stories, and the ideas arising from them. She is reading at about the level of an 8/9 year old (basically free reading) but obviously doesn’t have the capacity to deal with some of the themes an 8/9 year old could manage, e.g. significant injury or death etc.

• I’m so sorry that it sounds like a boast. She is not a genius or anything and she is rubbish at some other things, but context is important.

TIA

Worst witch books maybe ?

Or some of the shorter roald dahl ?

My daughter is the same and has read some of the following:

Isadora Moon
Claude
Storey Tree House
Roald Dahl
Tom Gates
Marge in Charge
Flat Stanley
Ottoline
Daisy and the trouble with
Adventures of Sophie Mouse
Worst Witch
Horrid Henry
Mrs Pepperpot

I hope that helps.

Thanks @TotallyFloored. Worst Witch is a good shout. She refuses to try Roald Dahl except Fantastic Mr Fox, which she loves. No idea why!

@Daijoubudesu - that’s really helpful, thanks. She has read (and enjoyed) several books on that list so will definitely try her on the others.

Lots of Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree/ Wishing Chair/ Amelia Jane/ Famous Five/ Adventure series - I was a good reader at that age and this is what I was reading mostly
Milly Molly Mandy
Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf (possibly too much threat I can't remember how threatening the wolf is!)

The Faraway Tree series by Enid Blyton
Illustrated stories for Children - Usborne
The complete poems for Christopher Robin by AA Milne

Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf. Now, there is (theoretical) peril in these, because they're all about the wolf trying to get Polly to eat, but it's extremely clear from the off that he never will, and the main enjoyment is all the ways Polly thwarts him. The author was a psychiatrist before she had her children and wrote them to help her daughter cope with fears of wolves under the bed (IIRC).

Mrs Pepperpot - mostly nice and gentle.

The Ramona books by Beverly Cleary, especially the early ones. I read those to my dd when she was 6/7. So empathetic about a child's experience.

Some Margaret Mahy stories are lovely - collections I can recommend are Chocolate Porridge, The Girl with the Green Ear and Non-Stop Nonsense. She writes so, so beautifully. (They're mostly out of print but you can get old editions). She does also write some quite creepy ghostly stories for slightly older audiences, so check first.

The Olga da Polga books by Michael Bond are nice. Sometimes Olga has slightly perilous adventures, but they're like Paddington (same author) - everything always turns out fine in the end.

So many of the recommendations are books I read and loved as a child. And had somehow forgotten! Thank you for these very helpful ideas.

Also maybe look at Dick King Smith. Although definite death and danger in some, maybe the Sophie books?
second Ramona and clever Polly. My kids are loving the EB adventure series audiobooks. Also Mr Gumm (altho it can be pretty Yukky there’s some funny word play)

When my daughter was that age we loved a series called "Pocket Cats" by Kitty Wells - they're well-written and build up the story well.

They're now so bound up with memories of DD and me cuddling up together with a book that I still re-read them when I have an urgent need to be in a happy space.