Best Magical Book Series for 5 and 6 year olds

Best Magical Book Series for 5 and 6 year olds

Keeping the wonder alight in reading for children aged 5 and 6 is no easy task, but a little touch of magic works a charm...

What we love about reading, and the whole reason Toppsta exists, is because it's a magical experience, whisking you away to far-off lands and on spellbinding adventures. Magic doesn't just end with fairy tales and picture books, and there are some truly brilliant books out there to explore as readers make their first steps towards independent reading

With series, children can connect with their favourite characters, worlds and magical systems over and over again. Here are some of our favourites ones. 

Toppsta
2026-05-31
Best Magical Book Series for 5 and 6 year olds
Book pages Unicornia Series

Unicornia Series

Unicornia is a sweet and cosy illustrated chapter book series set in a magical world of unicorns and glitter. In this world, there's a unicorn shelter, a syrup-pumping station, an Enchanted Falls theme park and even a place to learn magic – the Unicornia Academy of Magic! Here, Claudia, Pippa and Sara – three best friends – get up to all kinds of fun, from learning how to fly a unicorn and planning a birthday party, to joining a cupcake contest and even dancing in a talent show! Each book is fully illustrated in a colour that matches the cover.

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Book pages Rainbow Magic Series

Rainbow Magic Series

Enter the world of Rainbow Magic with Rachel Walker and Kirsty Tate, two best friends who are members of the secret alliance of fairies! Whenever their winged friends are in need, Rachel and Kirsty are always happy to help and save the day from the evil plots of the Wicked Jack Frost and his goblin minions. Usually divided into 6 chapters and with eye-catching illustrations throughout, each book in the series is perfect for children aged 5+.

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Book pages Mermaid School Series

Mermaid School Series

Filled with fabulous fishy fun, Mermaid School is perfect for fans of Unicorn Academy and Dork Diaries. With black-and-white illustrations throughout and accessible language, readers aged 5+ will love getting lost in this underwater world! The books all follow main character Marnie Blue as she becomes a student at Lady Sealia Foam’s Mermaid School and explore first experiences while keeping little readers engaged with underwater magic!

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Book pages Isadora Moon Series

Isadora Moon Series

Isadora Moon is the loveliest early chapter book series for readers ages 5+ who love unique characters! With beautiful pink and black artwork throughout, each book totals about 128 pages and is soon to be a major TV series! Isadora Moon is half vampire, thanks to her dad, and half fairy, thanks to her mum. She is different and unique, and special things always seem to happen when she's around.

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Book pages The Naughtiest Unicorn series Series

The Naughtiest Unicorn series Series

The Naughtiest Unicorn by Pip Bird and illustrated by David O’Connell is perfect for fans of The Worst Witch, Unipiggle and Pamela Butchart. This series is filled with friendship, magic and mayhem as main character Mira attends Unicorn School for the first time and meets Dave, her unicorn BFF, who is more grumpy than glittery. Newly independent readers will love this unicorn story with a difference.

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Book pages Aziza's Secret Fairy Door Series

Aziza's Secret Fairy Door Series

Aziza's Secret Fairy Door is a black-and-white illustrated, inclusive magical adventure series, perfect for readers of 6+ and inspired by world mythology. In these books, princesses, naughty fairies, shapeshifters and even unicorn shopkeepers join Aziza as she works to keep this magical world safe. Packed with friendship and magic, Aziza is perfect for fans of Isadora MoonWitch WarsBad Mermaids, Amelia FangGhoulia and Kitty's Midnight Adventures.

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Book pages Sticker Dolly Stories Series

Sticker Dolly Stories Series

With every new adventure, the Magic Dolls have got so much to do! Helping magical unicorns, saving tea parties from trolls, finding missing grand prizes for mermaid galas, looking after baby dragons... These are just some of the magical and fantastical adventures they go on! 

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Book pages Fairy Unicorns Series

Fairy Unicorns Series

Welcome to Unicorn Island, where Fairy Unicorns roam freely and magic is boundless. When a young girl called Zoe discovers this magical world while staying at her great-aunt's, she befriends a sweet fairy unicorn called Astra. And so their adventure begins: adventure quests, finding spell books hidden underwater, stopping evil fairy ponies, saving the magical island itself and so much more...

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Book pages Kitty's Magic Series

Kitty's Magic Series

The cat's out the bag! With black-and-white illustrations throughout, large and readable text and a sweet story per book, this series is perfect for all cat-lovers aged 5+. Meet Kitty, a seemingly ordinary girl who one day discovers a single sneeze can turn her into a cat! 

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MORE TO EXPLORE

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake (Puffin)

Dream Keepers by Rebecca Lewis-Oakes and Anastasiya Kanavaliuk (Templar Books)

Fairytale Ninjas by Paula Harrison and Monica de Rivas (HarperCollins)

Far Out Five by Olaf Falafel (Puffin)

Kitty’s Magic by Ella Moonheart (Bloomsbury Childrens Books)

Mirabelle by Harriet Muncaster (Oxford University Press)

Magic Animal Friends by Daisy Meadows (Orchard Books)

Secret Kingdom by Rosie Banks (Orchard Books)

The Elementals by Love Ssega and Erika Meza (Little Tiger)

Tiny Pony Friends by Linda Chapman and Kristen Humphrey (Orchard Books)

Unicorn Academy by Julie Sykes and Lucy Truman (Nosy Crow)

Unicornia by Ana Punset and Diana Vicedo (Walker)

Unicorns in Uniform by Tracy Curran and Steve Wood (UCLan Publishing)


Toppsta
2026-05-31
Best Magical Book Series for 5 and 6 year olds

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