I still pick books for D2, and she is 14! Yesterday she asked me to walk through the adult fiction section and the library and pick some stuff for her. Which I did. So you may be doing that for a long time... In fact, I now remember that D2 had a VERY hard time picking her own books until she was about 10.
I agree about not pushing the chapter books too hard. If you read chapter books aloud, that will help draw you child's interest. D2 was HOOKED on Harry Potter when I read it to her starting at about 3. Finally bought her the tapes after too many readings! She actually read chapter books fairly late for a gifted child... end of first grade. But as I mentioned earlier, she accelerated VERY rapidly once she hit her stide.
