Read aloud chapter books for sensitive 4-year-old?

The Billy and Blaze books are good too.  Our library had 4-5 of them…they are very easy reads, lovely drawings of a boy and his horse, nothing scary, but a little (and I mean a little) adventurous.  I read about 3 of them to a group of 4-6 year olds and they loved them. 

If I can think of any others I’ll pass them on.  Everyone mentioned the ones we are reading or have read.  Good luck:)

I happened to read this post today and was thinking about it this evening – there are a couple of books I was planning to get to read to my son this year that might fit your son, but I have NOT read them yet – maybe someone else has experience with them?

The Milly-Molly-Mandy storybook, which is about a girl, but Amazon reviewers said their boys liked it.

A Bear called Paddington

Both sound mild in terms of content.

A longer in length picture book that I love is A House is a House for Me – which is more of a long poem than a story.

I noticed these on the Mater Amabilis website, which has some other suggestions for 4-6 year olds (Prep level on the website). There might be some more choices there, although there’s probably overlap with SCM.

It’s funny how kids are about certain issues. My kids are not particularly sensitive, but I was pretty sensitive as a child. I found the idea of Winnie the Pooh trapped in rabbit’s hole kind of disturbing, while my 3 and 5 year old think it’s hilarious. Most kids love Shel Silverstein, but some of his poems really bothered me when I was young. I also have a friend who read the Chronicles of Narnia to her 5 year old daughter and she loved them. When I tried to read the first to my son, the ONLY thing he was interested in was the one sentence about a dead bug in the window. I put it back on the shelf after the first chapter. Each child is just totally unique I guess.