Reading material for 7 year old

amother

Sun, Aug 13 2023, 4:45 pm

My daughter loves reading early chapter books and would love to get book suggestions for her.
I've gone through a lot of the posts about reading suggestions and we've already looked at the kosher book list. I've also combed the library and the web for wholesome suggestions, but it seems we've exhausted the list!
I'm fine with both Jewish and secular books but am very selective in terms of the quality. She enjoys fantasy but doesn't like mysteries or anything scary (it gives her nightmares) and I am not comfortable introducing concepts to her that I feel would be more appropriate for her to learn about when she is older iyH (eg war, politics)
Examples of what she has enjoyed are Savta Simcha, PJ PepperJay, Milly Molly Mandy, The Wishing Chair by Enid Blyton.
I would greatly appreciate books that have clean, innocent and wholesome messages.

MyUsername

Mon, Aug 14 2023, 10:31 am

Here are series my daughter read around that age (check reading levels, I can't quite remember what she read when) that she really enjoyed and I personally read at least 1-3 books in each series myself to ensure they are appropriate (I can't vouch for every book in every series here). In no particular order:
-Magic Faraway Tree series by Enid Blyton
-Adventures of Sophie Mouse
-Isadora Moon
-Princess in Black
-Ballet Slippers by Patricia Reilly Giff
-The Worst Witch
-Jewel Kingdom
-Candy Fairies
-Rainbow Magic
-Unicorn Magic
-Magic Animal Friends
-Cobble Street Cousins
-Mercy Watson
-Unicorn Princesses
-Daisy Dawson
-Mrs. Noodlekugel
-Kitty by Paula Harrison
-Flat Stanley
-Magic School Bus chapter books
-Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
-Jada Jones
-Rescue Princesses
-Zoey and Sassafrass
-Secret Kingdom by Rosie Banks
-Fairy Unicorns by Zanna Davidson
-Bella Donna
-Pippi Longstocking
-Never Girls by Kiki Thorpe
-Polly Diamond
-Mia Mayhem
-Diary of an Ice Princess
-Wild Fairies
-Fairy Realm by Emily Rodda
-Jim Henson's Enchanted Sisters
-Zoe's Rescue Zoo

amother

Babyblue

Wed, Aug 16 2023, 3:01 pm

amother Lime wrote:

My daughter really likes the Ivy + Bean series

Mine liked it too, but when I tried to donate a couple of them to my school's library, they got rejected as not acceptable Sad

And it wasn't even the fossils one or the ghost one. Kosherbooks doesn't love them, so I don't know if OP will.

#BestBubby

Wed, Aug 16 2023, 3:59 pm

Ramona books by beverly Cleary

Fudge books by Judy bloome

Books by Ruth chew

Betsy books by Carolyn haywood

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle

Magic Tree House

Picture books by William steig

Where is ms. Nelson

Amelia Bedilia

Frog and toad

Cam Jansen

Nate the Great

Fly Guy

Little leftover witch

The witch's child

All of a kind family

Charlie and the Chocolate Family

K'tonton books

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amother

Sun, Aug 20 2023, 10:38 am

Thank you all so much for the suggestions. Sophie Mouse was great.

I guess am pretty sensitive as I checked out some of the others and found that some had pretty scary pics and disrespectful / mean language and messages...so please keep 'em coming!!

Thanks!