
When my daughter was younger, I maintained a diary of our reading activities in weekly What My Child Is Reading entries in my blog. In this post I am featuring books that Smarty was reading on her own in two different years – some when she was turning 6 and some when she was turning 7. While my other entries in the series are focusing on picture books, here I am recommending picture books, non-fiction books, and chapter books, so it can be used for children of different ages depending on their reading skills.
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1. The Magic School Bus Series

My daughter didn’t watch a lot of Magic School Bus cartoons, but she still loves the books in Magic School Bus series – both picture books and chapter books. I think Magic School Bus creators found a magical way to introduce pretty complex science concepts with a compelling cast of characters. My daughter has special fondness for Arnold and doesn’t wish to travel on a Magic School Bus, she thinks it would be “too scary”. A great read for Halloween would be The Magic School Bus in the Haunted Museum, and One Time Through took this book further with Spooky Sound Experiments.

2. 2x2 = Boo

My daughter always enjoyed math books by Loreen Leedy. 2x2=Boo! is a perfect Halloween book that even the kids who are not interested in math will love. There is not much story line, but the illustrations are very engaging and take young readers all the way to multiplying 5x5. There is a full multiplication table in the end of the book. We got 2x2=Boo at the library book sale when Smarty was 4, and by 6 my little mathematician was not fast, but decent with multiplication facts through calculating and memorizing them for fun. This makes things much easier now when she is in the third grade and expected to learn multiplication. Most kids are more hands-on in their learning styles than Smarty, and they might enjoy edible multiplication math from Kids Activities Blog.

3. You Wouldn’t Want to Be…

4. Big Books of Jokes and Riddles


5. The Great Fairy Tale Disaster


6. Jenny and the Cat Club

My recommendation for a chapter book/read aloud book is Jenny and the Cat Club – a recently re-released classic from Esther Averill. It’s a book where main characters are cats, and The Cats musical certainly comes to mind when adults read this book. The main character Jenny is a shy black cat who wants to be accepted by other cats in her neighborhood. The characters are lovingly written, and the stories are very believable and can be readily translated into human world. The Cat Club is only one of the series of books about Jenny. We also read others in the series, and they are doubly fascinating, because certain things described in the stories are dated or don’t exist any longer. And if you read this book in October, these Halloween handprint cats from Fun Handprint Art might be a great extension activity for it.

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6 comments:
Pinning that fairy tale book to my much neglected fairy tale board.
I love those Halloween cats! I love the Magic School Bus books.
Those cats are fabulous! We have a number of the "You Wouldn't Want To..." series, but I don't think we've read the Columbus one...looks good.
This isn't a read-yourself book for a 6yo, but I thought of you when reading the Theodosia Throckmorten series recently. My 6yo son loves them (we read them together) and they touch on issues of giftedness. You may already have read them all but if not, good ones to look up.
Oh, good, some books for us to check out this month!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
This is a great list of books for 6+ year olds!
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