For Niece's 7th birthday I bought her Clarice Bean and expected she would be able to read it alone. Liebling is fast approaching 6 and reads short, simple books and comics. He can read his Angry Birds annual, for example, with a little help. The Julia Donaldson "Songbirds" series has been a hit with Liebs and he loves reading those.

Age 7, I was reading The Hobbit, Jane Eyre, maybe Anne of Green Gables and the longer Roald Dahl books. Other children my age were still on Topsy and Tim books, so it does vary.