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Haha, yeah, I can understand that.

The good news is that the early reader books tend to be very short - 15-30 pages of very large type, and lots of illustrations. < 5000 words, and many < 1000 words.

I don't know a ton of them because I personally sort of skipped straight from picture books to middle grade books. The one series I can remember is called "Frog and Toad". If you have access to a library (physical or digital) with English language titles, you may be able to find more under the "Early Reader" classification.

Middle grade fiction can really be fun for an adult. There are tons of options depending on what sort of stories you like. A few ideas and favorites:

- The Goosebumps series is popular.

- There are a lot of middle grade mystery series like the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew

- A few of my personal favorites from childhood: The Pushcart War; Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH; A Wrinkle in Time; The Phantom Tollbooth; the Chronicles of Narnia (warning: heavy Christian symbolism); Bunnicula; Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle; Mr. Popper's Penguins; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; anything by Roald Dahl

- Some "classics" can be considered middle grade (warning: some of these reflect racist and colonialist 19th and early 20thC patterns of thought): Robinson Crusoe; Peter Pan; the Jungle Book; Alice in Wonderland; Black Beauty (not racist, it's about a horse); Dr. Doolittle; Just So Stories

- The Harry Potter series starts off at an advanced middle grade reading level and gradually increases to a young adult reading level

- Another thing that might be fun would be books of myths from various cultures. I remember reading a big book of Norse myths and another of Greek myths around age 8-9. You could probably start with a collection from a culture you're already familiar with, which could assist with understanding.

Edited to add: your written English is excellent!