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There is a point in every child's life where they have reached the full capacity of re-reading their picture books and are looking for the next level up.  The 'chapter' book is a huge milestone in reading, or at least it was for me, and the very first chapter series I can remember reading is the My Father's Dragon series. With colorfully illustrated covers used as a visual launchpad to set a child's imagination on fire, I eagerly went through these books several times even though they were a bit more 'advanced' than what I was used to.

  A friend of mine recently looked back on them and was surprised to find that the books were a lot more simple than she initially remembered.  Simple or not, I highly recommend this series for the young ones.  As mikepop and I have been discussing the books are vividly descriptive and fun, mikepop even pointing out that it reminded him "of an early-generation text adventure in that he filled his backpack with an odd assortment of things (chewing gum, lollipops, rubber bands, boots, compass, toothbrush, compass, six magnifying glasses, hair ribbons, and so on), then used each of those items in turn (none left over!) to solve puzzles in the story". 

And who doesn't want to follow a young boy who eats fig newtons and tangerines on his fantastic adventure into the jungle?

EDIT: mikepop posted this lovely illustration from My Father's Dragon, to give you all an idea of what sort of lovely scenes took place in this book: