Wanted! SFF book recommendations for a 6 year old.

[Silver Owl]

The Magic Faraway Tree stuff by Enid Blyton

You might be better reading stuff too her at this age rather than having her read it herself though. Having a parent that cares about her reading is a brilliant start. Good luck

 

[hitmouse]

Wind in the Willows (as already mentioned)
Winnie th Pooh AA Milne
The Princess and the Goblin George MacDonald
The 13 and a half Lives of Captain Bluebear Walter Moers (possibly the most successful book I ever read to my kids)
Uncle JP Martin

 

[JunkMonkey]

I heartily second Uncle. A great book which I loved as a kid and my eldest daughter adores.
The Goblin books by Philip Reeves are full on of silly adventures and made me laugh aloud several times when I read them.
Number one Daughter (now 13) says: The Phantom Tollboth - "One of my most favouritest books!" -and lots of Roald Dahl.

 

[Ensign Shah]

I heartily second Uncle. A great book which I loved as a kid and my eldest daughter adores.
The Goblin books by Philip Reeves are full on of silly adventures and made me laugh aloud several times when I read them.
Number one Daughter (now 13) says: The Phantom Tollboth - "One of my most favouritest books!" -and lots of Roald Dahl.

Thank daughter number one for me!

 

[JunkMonkey]

She says "You're welcome!" Though what she is doing up at 10pm when we have to be off to the big city at 6am is a mystery.

Looking back through my reading diary (sad, I know) I find I read her Uncle three times over the years. and a caveat about reading The Phantom Tollbooth -

1. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster. A re-read for the kids' bedtime. A lot funnier than I remember but Juster has an annoying habit of just writing 'he said' after two or three people have spoken making it a bit of a bugger sometimes to work out who is speaking. Not so much of a problem when reading to yourself but annoying when you are 'doing the voices', as I tend to do when reading to the kids.

Others I came across:

The Incredible Adventures of Professor Brainstawm by Norman Hunter. Another re-read for Daughter Number Two. (very silly and very funny - the first two books in the series are the best, the joke gets a little worn after that.)

The Mennyms by Sylvia Waugh
- The Guardian 27th Children's Fiction Award Winner. I don't know what else was in contention that year (1993) but this is a wonderfully weird little book. I have no idea why or where I bought it and I picked it off the TBR shelves at random last night and read it in a sitting. Compulsively odd. I'm more than happy to see that it's the first of a series....

Which Witch by Eva Ibbotson - a kids' bedtime read and the funniest of her books that I have read to them. Laugh aloud funny in places. (Five years later No 1 Daughter still quotes one episode.)

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Yes, The Phantom Tollbooth was one of my favoritest books, too!

Oh, gosh, I forgot to mention the Darth Vader and Son books -- there are four or five of them now. They're cartoon books about Darth Vader raising Luke and Leia when they were little kids (spoiler if she doesn't know the relationship there yet), and quite funny. The Goodnight Darth Vader one was a throwaway for us, but the rest are great, if small, reads.

 

[Ensign Shah]

@JunkMonkey hope you all got off to the big city on time. I am loving the idea of a reading diary!!!

 

[Ensign Shah]

The Darth Vader series sound like they should be on my list.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

You might also want William Shakespeare's Star Wars and the rest of that series on your list, but probably not on hers yet.

 

[Ensign Shah]

I do want those on my list Thank you!!!!!

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

How about my very own PyPa the alien, who lives underneath the kitchen sink?
Who likes strawberry icecream,and who's scared of the Teletubbies?
Her spaceship is made clothespegs,fabric softener bottle caps,soap bubbles,and dishcloth and is propelled by saying the word Palooha loudly

A work of which i haven't written a letter yet?

 

[Ensign Shah]

Get writing it hardsciencefanagain!!!! It sounds amazing.

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

Are you serious ?I just made her up!

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

*She opened the door,and you know what?
There was somebody in there.
Only, it was a very funny-looking somebody.
It was some kind of animal.It looked like a hedgehog, and also a bit like a duck,and it had a trunk like an elephant.*

 

[Ensign Shah]

@hardsciencefanagain. Yes! You can't taunt us with us wonderful characters then say you are not writing it

 

[Ensign Shah]

*She opened the door,and you know what?
There was somebody in there.
Only, it was a very funny-looking somebody.
It was some kind of animal.It looked like a hedgehog, and also a bit like a duck,and it had a trunk like an elephant.*

Exciting!!!!

 

[Hex]

Not to be a killjoy (hahahaha! I kill joy!), but the adventures of PyPa might be best in Lounge. If she has her adventures here, on a thread about appropriate sff books for a six year old, it will be confusing and make the organised among us (and I believe they do exist) weep briny tears of woe.

EDIT @hardsciencefanagain -- I was giving you the benefit of the doubt

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

And you thought I didn't know that?
My reputation precedes me
*bows and acknowledges preemptive Mod strike*

 

[TheDustyZebra]

I think the adventures of PyPa might be best in a book -- preferably large and hardcover, with little bits of tactile stuff on every page.

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

**mommy,do the voice again,please**
****No ,not that one,The OTHER one*****