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I am reading books with a 1st grade Korean student. Could you recommend any good books?

She reads at a second or third grade level, so she is very bright. Her mother is not able to read or ponounce English words, so she asked for my help. I would like to buy her a couple of books to read on her own. I have no children so I am not up to date on childrens books.

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1. The Trumpet of The Swan, EB White Edit: I just re-read- so sorry. The Trumpet of The Swan is great to read to a child that age. If you want to give her some to read herself, my kids have loved the Junie B. Jones series, the Cam Jansen books (they're simpler), the Amazing Treehouse books... I'm thinking. If I think of more, I'll come back! 2nd Edit: MAGIC Treehouse. (Time for bed- sorry again!)
2. I would suggest: -Because of Winn-Dixie by Katie DiCamillo -Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak -Charlotte's Web by E.B. White -The Wizard of Oz (series) by L. Frank Baum -Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne -The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder -The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis -The Borrowers by Mary Norton -A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett -The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter -The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame -James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl -How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss -A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson -Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie -some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales like The Ugly Duckling, The Little Match Girl and The Princess and the Pea -At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald -Black Beauty by Anna Sewell -Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge -Heidi by Johanna Spyri -The Railway Children by E. Nesbit -The Five Little Peppers series by Margaret Sidney -The Complete Adventures of Curious George by H. A. Rey -Madeleine by Ludwig Bemelmans Some of these may be a slight stretch (most of these were books I read around that age), but hopefully this will help.
3. Magic Tree House books are GREAT. Very simple words and exciting. There are a ton of them as well. Also you might want to try the book "The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Stories". Small words but a lot.of them, lots of illustrations.