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Our 5 1/2 year-old daughter is in Kindergarten and loves to read. She is particularly interested in mystery books. She's read practically all the books in the "Cam Jansen," "A to Z Mysteries" and "Jigsaw Jones" series.
What other chapter books do you recommend? She also seems to love the idea of a book series...maybe the familiarity concept is appealing to her.
Our 5 1/2 year-old daughter is in Kindergarten and loves to read. She is particularly interested in mystery books. She's read practically all the books in the "Cam Jansen," "A to Z Mysteries" and "Jigsaw Jones" series.
What other chapter books do you recommend? She also seems to love the idea of a book series...maybe the familiarity concept is appealing to her.
How fantastic! Especially great that she likes series - probably a good attention span. May I suggest that this is the perfect time for you to encourage her to branch out to other things, rather than getting her stuck in a rut with mysteries?
Do you ever take her to the library and let her choose for herself? And I assume she's read Dr. Seuss?
Thanks, everyone. Our daughter's apparently familiar with Junie B. Jones (I just asked her), but I don't think she's ever picked one of the books up, so I'll definitely steer her towards them the next time we are at the library.
Speaking of the library...
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Originally Posted by Cida
How fantastic! Especially great that she likes series - probably a good attention span. May I suggest that this is the perfect time for you to encourage her to branch out to other things, rather than getting her stuck in a rut with mysteries?
Do you ever take her to the library and let her choose for herself? And I assume she's read Dr. Seuss?
Yes, she loves the library, and her attention span is surprising good, come to think of it. The problem is that she reads at a relatively fast pace (1 book per day) and we're quickly running out of books within one of her preferred series. That's why your suggestion of branching her away from the mystery books sounds like a great idea. The only issue I see is that when she likes something, she becomes very particular and picky...hopefully she'll budge a little.
Nancy Drew, I know what your thinking to out of date and old fashion.
I thought that when my wife introduced them to my daughters at that age back in the 1990's. After the first book they were hooked and went right through the series Luckily I ran across boxes of all the volumes at a garage sale and got them cheap.
My guess is your daughter is reading at a much higher level than K. Nancy might be a little tough at first but seems like you have a bright one on your hands.
Nancy Drew, I know what your thinking to out of date and old fashion.
I thought that when my wife introduced them to my daughters at that age back in the 1990's. After the first book they were hooked and went right through the series Luckily I ran across boxes of all the volumes at a garage sale and got them cheap.
My guess is your daughter is reading at a much higher level than K. Nancy might be a little tough at first but seems like you have a bright one on your hands.
Thanks for the suggestions/thoughts. I agree she may be too young for Nancy Drew, but has expressed interest, so no, not too out of date and old fashion! We'll reintroduce it when she's ready.
She is an advanced reader like you said. We'll see if she plateaus. If only she listened to us and did her chores as well as she reads...
My guess is your daughter is reading at a much higher level than K. Nancy might be a little tough at first but seems like you have a bright one on your hands.
Actually... there are Nancy Drew chapter books for younger girls.
Haven't read them since I was that age, but I remember "The Littles" books fondly.With later kids, anything by Shel Silverstein is great.
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Luckily I ran across boxes of all the volumes at a garage sale and got them cheap.
