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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Graphic novels are not the same quality as actual books. It's all pictures and simple blurbs of words. Why not try The Secret Garden, some Anne of Green Gables, The Little Prince, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, etc. [/quote]

Some graphic novels are great. Some are not. Just like some novels are great and some are not.

For graphic novels I recommend:

* Zita the Spacegirl
* Marcia Williams books that retell things like Shakespeare and various culture's myths in comic book format
* Straight up comic books like Calvin & Hobbes (if you look you might be surprised at how high level the vocabulary and concepts actually are)

For novels for a 7 year old:

* Mercy Watson (heavily illustrated) and the follow on older kid series Tales from Deckawoo Drive
* Anna Hibiscus series and the Too Small Tola series by the same author
* Dodsworth series (again heavily illustrated)
* Henry and Mudge and Annie and Snowball series and basically any other beginning reader by Cynthia Rylant (don't be fooled by how short they are, the vocabulary is pretty complex). My kids were specially fans of High Rise Private Eyes.
* Frog and Toad and any other Arnold Loebel - classics for a reason
* Jenny and the Cat Club
* Hank the Cowdog
* Boxcar Children - there are a million of them and the repetitive nature can be really useful for kids
* Encyclopedia Brown
* Catwings series (not too often that you get an early chapter book by one of the greatest authors of our time!)
* The Poppy series by Avi
* Ronia the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren

Also don't overlook the value of really high quality longer picture books for this age. Often the concepts in those stories are more advanced than those in early reader novels. There's a mix of heavily illustrated chapter books and longer picture books recommended in this thread: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/1028712.page[/quote]

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