Plus there are many, many other wonderful books. Early Readers There are many excellent individual books, as well as series. Junior Fiction The Borrowers and The Half Magic series are good summer reading. Alvin Schwartz, Bruce Colville, and Allan Aalberg write good scary ghost stories, but I don't recommend them for bedtime. The Great Brain series and Mary Poppins series are also very involving.
Many people think that a long book is harder than a short one.
That is not necessarily so. Learning to read can be hard work. It is a wonderful feeling finally to read a book that you thought would be too difficult for you. Let us not forget, however, that one of the reasons we learn to read is so we can curl up under a tree, on a couch, or in bed at night and enjoy a book. It makes it fun.