![]() This one has his trademark silliness, plus a plot that moves right along. I mean, you just can’t go wrong with Roald Dahl. Ella fell asleep during the last chapter on a road trip, and Bart asked me to finish reading it. I love all his books, but this is the best. They’re around 150 pages with a lot of illustrations, so they’re a nice place to start with chapter books. The first one is the best, but we read all three and they are all excellent, about three beloved toys who live with a little girl. Toys Go Out by Emily Jenkins, illustrated by Paul Zelinsky. This is the perfect introductory series, with full-color illustrations and about 80 pages each (for reference, a standard picture book is 40 pages long). Once you ARE ready, here are 30 books that I’ve found to be really good for that 3-6 crowd – hopefully one or ten of them will be big hits at your house too! And age four was when it really got fun and she would just beg and beg for another chapter.Īni started listening in to chapter books around the time she turned three, and around four is when she really caught the bug as well.Īlso, last year, I wrote a post with some tips for reading aloud chapter books, so if you’re looking for a little more guidance in making the jump, these might help you out! In our case, I started reading chapter books to Ella just after she turned three, but I felt like she didn’t REALLY get the hang of it until she was about 3.5. There’s no gold star for reading chapter books instead of picture books, so if your child is struggling to listen to a chapter book, keep on keeping on with the picture books – you want reading to be fun, not something they dread. Some three-year-olds might be ready to start and others might be nearer to five when they can handle a longer book. Since the launch of Raising Readers, the question I get most often (aside from “ is my child old enough to start audiobooks?“) is “I think I’m ready to start reading chapter books to my child – what’s the right age and what books should I start with?”
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