Uncle Wiggily's many many many adventures are really popular in our house with that age group.

My 4 year old likes some of the books listed here, but her current favorite is “Princess Cora and the Crocodile”

Anonymous wrote:This is OP, and just wanted to update that Frog and Toad has been a smashing success the past two nights with a just-turned 4 year old. So many giggles last night with Toad dumping water on his own head. : )

If she likes frog and toad, try others by Arnold Lobel like Mouse Soup, Mouse Tales, Owl at Home, Grasshopper on the Road, a few others I’m forgetting right now. Our kids loved these too.

My four year old loved ivy & beAn

Might be a tad early but The Phantom Tollbooth is one of my favorites to read to/with my son (grade 2). Lots of wordplay

mercy watson
princess in black
magic treehouse

I have a 4 year old, here are some she likes:

The princess in black series
The kitty series (kitty and the moonlight rescue is the first one)
Welliewisher books

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP, and just wanted to update that Frog and Toad has been a smashing success the past two nights with a just-turned 4 year old. So many giggles last night with Toad dumping water on his own head. : )

We used to listen to the audiobooks in the car, too, with the author reading them himself. The soundtrack to the Frog & Toad musical was also a huge hit in our house!

Yes we love the audio books too! Any others your kids like? I feel like we need some new ones.

Winnie the Pooh and House at Pooh Corner red by Stephen Fry, Judy Dench, Geoffrey Palmer et al.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP, and just wanted to update that Frog and Toad has been a smashing success the past two nights with a just-turned 4 year old. So many giggles last night with Toad dumping water on his own head. : )

We used to listen to the audiobooks in the car, too, with the author reading them himself. The soundtrack to the Frog & Toad musical was also a huge hit in our house!

Yes we love the audio books too! Any others your kids like? I feel like we need some new ones.

It's been a few years since mine were that age, but the Olivia collection was a surprise hit, given how visual those books are. I thought the audiobooks would be useless without the pictures, but Dame Edna makes them super-fun. We still quote them years later: "It was----[gasp]---THE DOG!!!"

If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, Moose a Muffin, etc. were also fun. For longer trips, we also loved Beverly Cleary's books, and Stockard Channing does the Ramona ones. Ralph S. Mouse was especially fun as an audiobook. And Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, read by Eric Idyll, had some great voice work. Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little can work for bedtime chapter books or audiobooks.

Princess in Black is a huge hit in our house. Both our 5 year old and 3 year old love the stories, and our 5 year old is starting to read it some on her own as first books!

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP, and just wanted to update that Frog and Toad has been a smashing success the past two nights with a just-turned 4 year old. So many giggles last night with Toad dumping water on his own head. : )

We used to listen to the audiobooks in the car, too, with the author reading them himself. The soundtrack to the Frog & Toad musical was also a huge hit in our house!

Yes we love the audio books too! Any others your kids like? I feel like we need some new ones.

Anonymous wrote:This is OP, and just wanted to update that Frog and Toad has been a smashing success the past two nights with a just-turned 4 year old. So many giggles last night with Toad dumping water on his own head. : )

We used to listen to the audiobooks in the car, too, with the author reading them himself. The soundtrack to the Frog & Toad musical was also a huge hit in our house!

'Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle' by Betty MacDonald

'Junie B. Jones' by Barbara Park if you like sassy (not for everyone for this age yet others love it)

'Magic Tree House' books inspire their sense of adventure and move along.

Anonymous wrote:Charlotte’s Web, Ramona series, Ralph S Mouse series - our favorite starter chapter books. Both DS and DD have enjoyed all of these books!

While these are good for early chapter books, I wouldn’t start with any of these as a FIRST chapter book. They’re too long.

The Princess in Black is pretty much perfect for transitioning to longer books.

Another vote for Charlotte's Web.
Our DD is a bit older (5), but she also likes Amelia Bedelia.