The original babar books always delighted me when I was a little kid; both my kids have loved the stories around age 5. (available in english or french)
Ds loved captain underpants, the timewarp trio and harry potter books ( mostly read to him at that point as he was not an early reader). Also, Frannie K. Stein books.

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