This is a really exciting time for readers, when they are just starting to be able to complete whole books with complex stories all on their own. Most kids this age are still very into picture books—and that is a good thing. Because picture books are written for adults to read to children, the vocabulary and concepts are often more complex than an early reader. So mix it up and include all kinds of books in your child’s library. Here are some of my favorite early readers and chapter books for beginning readers.
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Early Readers and Chapter Books, Alphabetically by Author
- Annie Barrows: Ivy and Bean
- Annie Barrows: Ivy and Bean and The Ghost that Had to Go
- Emily Bearn: Tumtum and Nutmeg: Adventures Beyond Nutmouse Hall
- Andrew Clements: Frindle
- Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee: Bink and Gollie
- Rachel Vail: Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters
- Mo Willems: We Are In A Book!
- Maryrose Wood: The Incorrible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling
Early Readers and Chapter Books, Alphabetically by Title
- Bink and Gollie, by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee
- The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling, by Maryrose Wood
- Ivy and Bean, by Annie Barrows
- Ivy and Bean and the Ghost That Had to Go, by Annie Barrows
- Frindle, by Andrew Clements
- Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters, by Rachel Vail
- Tumtum and Nutmeg: Adventures Beyond Nutmouse Hall, by Emily Bearn
- We Are In A Book! by Mo Willems
