You may have to ease into chapter books for children. Maybe alternate between picture books and chapter books. Once they have caught on to creating pictures of the story in their mind, they will beg you for more!

1. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
3. Harriet the Spy by Louis Fitzhugh
4. Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
5. The Ramona series by Beverly Cleary
6. The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
7. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
8. A Wrinkle in Time by Madelein L’Engle
9. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
10. The Quiltmaker’s Gift by Jeff Brumbeau
11. The Magic Treehouse series by Mary Pope Osborne
12. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo