# 5th Grade-level books for sensitive Kindergartner?

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**Created:** [June 3, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5th-grade-level-books-for-sensitive-kindergartner/660043 "2013-06-03T15:46:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5th-grade-level-books-for-sensitive-kindergartner/660043/81 "2013-06-06T19:07:05Z")

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Oh, DUH… Roald Dahl. But then again, some people here might object to the gross and violent nature of some of his stories.

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5th-grade-level-books-for-sensitive-kindergartner/660043/82 "2013-06-06T19:50:00Z")

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> [@Tara57](#):
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> I would also like to recommend :
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> Raggedy Ann, by Johnny Gruelle

There are a whole series of these books, which I vaguely remember my Dad reading to me when I was very young. Someone like the OP’s daughter might be the ideal audience for these books; I suspect anyone much older would find them impossibly quaint. The one thing I remember about the books (aside from something about magic pancakes that turn people into squealy little pigs, in _Raggedy Ann & Andy and the Nice Fat Policeman_, I think) is that they invariably ended with everything being set right and all villanous characters repenting and turning nice.

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