This sounds great. Also E tends to like animals better than people, so Harriet Hamsterbone looks perfect :P

All of these are indeed new to me -- as I've said before, it's been a weird thing for me that E doesn't really like reading books all that much. Same with recs -- Oh, in the "hamster" theme, I imagine Reason has read the Humphrey the Hamster books? E enjoyed them, although in retrospect I should have saved them until she was slightly older, as I'm sure she didn't get a lot of the "people" stuff out of the books. (She also doesn't tend to reread books a whole lot, although I should probably suggest a reread to her anyway.)