Puddi - reading trouble

I'm getting a little worried about Puddi and her reading ability. To put it into context, she is a very bright child, very active, pretty articulate and enjoys writing long, long letters or stories. But put her in front of a book and it becomes a test of patience for both her and me. She doesn't seem to recognise words when they recur from one page to another, she struggles over what I would consider simple words and most worrying of all, she doesn't seem to enjoy the experience. Her resistance is very passive-aggressive but real for all that. he is distracted, doesn't remember from one moment to the next what line she is on...

I don't really know what to make of it. In our house, we are surrounded, not to say invaded, by books of all kinds. I pretty much always have my nose in half a dozen books, Chubbocks is a big reader and A used to be before work pressure got to him. We have a pretty huge selection of children's reading material of all levels too.

What psyches me more, is whether I'm making too big a deal out of it, because my scale is all wrenched out of shape. Chubbocks is an advanced reader for his age and started being a fluent reader by age 5, if I remember correctly - he's now finished all the Harry Potters, the Percy Jacksons and several of the classics and is way ahead of his reading age. Bojjandi too seems to be raching ahead and recently finished reading two full books. More, he is avidly into the experience and whatever he is doing, if there is any object with letters on it - newspaper, carton of juice, packet of tea - he is busy piecing the phonetic sounds of the letters together and making sense of them. he can even read words that I would consider rather advanced for his age, like favourite or dinosaur. At night when we read bedtime stories to the kids, he is often peering over our shoulders to try and read them by himself. My nephew R, too, is a very advanced reader - last summer when I visited him, he raced through The Magic Faraway tree in one afternoon, at just five and a half years old.

Given that, I don't know if I'm making a big deal out of nothing for poor Puddi - for all I know, she may be going at an average speed for her age? Or she may have some sort of learning disability when it comes to letters and needs to get help? Either way, I think it's time to stop worrying and take some action. Planning to meet her teacher next week at school and discuss the issue.