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Originally posted by Sparklehorse
I'd also recommend All of a Kind of Family books (about a Russian immigrant family with many girls living in NY's lower east side in the early 1900s), My Father's Dragon (there are sequels but they are not as good as the original), Pippi Longstocking books. I loved fairy tales when I was that age and you don't have to be limited to the Grimms Brothers and HC Andersen. I had a books of Indian and Japanese fairy tales that I just loved. Still have them on my bookshelf, actually. I also third the Little House books.
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Another vote for the Little House books, here. We read the first two last summer, and we're about half-way through Farmer Boy right now. The plan is to finish the whole series before starting Harry Potter. He has decided that six is old enough to start reading those, and I was hoping he'd wait until seven, so I'm just trying to hold him off as long as I can.
Other recent read-alouds chez nous were The Wizard of Oz and the Mouse and the Motorcycle trilogy by Beverly Cleary. We read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe a couple of years ago, which was too early. I think we're about ready to go back to those.
Will Ruth Bader be in kindergarten, or did you manage to get her in to first grade? That may make a difference.
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