Beginner Series Chapter Books

	Title	Author
	Geronimo Stilton	Geronimo Stilton
	Jack Russell: Dog Detective	Darrell & Sally Odgers
	Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew & Nancy Drew Notebooks	Carolyn Keene
	Magic Tree House	Mary Pope Osborne
	Dragon Slayers’ Academy	Kate McMullen
	Animal Ark & Little Animal Ark	Lucy Daniels
	Rainbow Magic	Daisy Meadows
	Magic Kitten	Sue Bentley
	Marvin Redpost	L.Sachar
	Cam Jansen	David A Adler
	Go Girl! -	Multiple authors
	Secrets of Droon	Tony Abbott
	Not quite a mermaid	Linda Chapman
	Spy Dog	Andrew Cope

Year 1 read alouds and first chapter books

Some of the Breakers books.
Maxx Rumble series
Greedy cat and the birthday cake by Joy Cowley
The ghost of Able Mabel by Penny Dolan
The mad tadpole adventure by Melanie Drewery

The Julian Stories - Ann Cameron
Flat Stanley - Jeff Brown
Seriously Silly Stories series - Laurence Anholt e.g. Eco-Wolf and the
Three Pigs, Shampoozel
George Speak's - Dick King-Smith
The Hodgeheg - Dick King-Smith
Diary of a Killer Cat - Anne Fine

Clarice Bean, bit of a longer story but a character they may well know.


Also, you could try Dinner with Frances by Albert
Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas. Neither of those exactly a chapter book, but long enough to split up over a short
period.
The Julian Stories - Ann Cameron
Flat Stanley - Jeff Brown
Seriously Silly Stories series - Laurence Anholt e.g. Eco-Wolf and the Three Pigs, Shampoozel
George Speak's - Dick King-Smith
The Hodgeheg - Dick King-Smith
Boyz Rule series
Girlz Rock series
Or Too Cool series


Any Kiwi bites / Aussie nibbles, esp. Albert / William Taylor