# Please recommend chapter books for 5 year olds **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-chapter-books-for-5-year-olds/577478 "2011-04-07T00:53:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-chapter-books-for-5-year-olds/577478/21 "2011-04-08T12:36:08Z")
> [@Wednesday\_Evening](#): > > The **Magic Treehouse** series by Mary Pope Osborne (the early ones). My son loved the Magic Treehouse books when he was in preschool and now, at age 7, still re-reads them. The books get more advanced as the series progresses (there’s 40+ books now), but if you start at the beginning of the series the level should be fine for preschoolers. I was coming in to recommend these, too. My sister, a former Kindergarten teacher, recommended them for Fang when he was 5. He loved them, and is still reading them at 7. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-chapter-books-for-5-year-olds/577478/22 "2011-04-09T03:32:05Z")
> [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](#): > > I loved “The Boxcar Children” and “Little House in the Big Woods.” What about poetry? Some selected Shel Silverstine can be very soothing yet discriptive enough to paint mental pictures. Added benefit is the cadence can be rather comforting. Little House in the Big Woods is not easy material: in second grade I reserve it for my highest readers, because understanding what’s going on requires some pretty advanced linguistic skills. I’m personally no fan of Magic Treehouse: I think their version of history is funky and bland and uncreative. But a lot of kids like them, so they could work. The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a little dated but could be fun. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-chapter-books-for-5-year-olds/577478/23 "2011-04-09T03:40:57Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > Heartily second the Frog and Toad books by Lobel, as well as his Grasshopper on the Road. Also in that really sweet vein are the Little Bear books by Minarik. My five year old loves the Frog and Toad books and the Little Bear books (as I did when I was a kid). I was reading Owl at Home to him the other night (also by Lobel) and he thought it hilarious. Although I heard my seven year old mutter under his breath, from the other side of the room, “That owl is really stupid.” Which, you really can’t argue with. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-chapter-books-for-5-year-olds/577478/24 "2011-04-09T04:34:19Z")
Ooo some ideas for what to read with my son! I was thinking of starting a thread along these lines… ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-chapter-books-for-5-year-olds/577478/25 "2011-04-09T04:59:55Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The early [Ramona Quigley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramona_Quimby) books. Or how about Judy Bloom’s books about Fudge? He’s five in **Superfudge** , so he ought to be a character the kids can relate to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-chapter-books-for-5-year-olds/577478.md?page=1)