Donaldson books are great. So all of them.
David Walliams books are really good too, but possibly a little mature at 5. Depends on the kid. My 6yo loves them, it’s always “just one more chapter dad”, but they can be pretty dark at times. Brought a fair lump to my throat more than once.
Roald Dahl always good too. I like “Revolting Rhymes” and “The Magic Finger” even though they are both slightly less than PC 🙂
Read her The BFG before seeing it in the cinema and she enjoyed that too. Lead to our first proper “It wasn’t like that in the book” discussion about a film 🙂
On the other hand I hated reading the Mr. Men books, they were always just slightly too long for a bedtime story.
Really? We typically used to read two of them at bedtime. She’s getting a little old for them now but still asks for them occasionally. I always find myself trying to do the voices and annunciation from the original animations. 😀