Ask HN: Books you'd love to read to your 6-year-old?

Books your own kids have loved, books you'd want to read to your kids if you had kids, or books you wish your parents had read to you when you were little.

Am interested primarily in books rooted in the real world that kids can relate to. Like stories based on...

- the lives of interesting people (Semmelweis, Curie, or maybe even just someone who lived through interesting times or with an interesting outlook on life), - how everyday life looked like in the past and/or accounts of human history through the eyes of a child living back then, - how everyday life looks like today for kids in different countries, - travel, adventure and curiosity.

Fiction is also fine if you think the main character would be someone you'd want your child to spend time with and learn from.

The books don't necessarily have to be books written specifically for kids. For instance, I find that my daughter (6) loves it when I read to her Sebastian Haffner's "Defying Hitler", which I discovered here on HN. It's not a book written for children at all, but it's been one of her favorites for weeks now. She only understands about 90 % of it - but that leads us into some of our most interesting conversations.