Reading lessons

My oldest daughter learned to read using the Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons book.  She loved it, she liked the order, the consistency, and indeed the simple stories.  She liked that she could do a lesson and that she had an end to learning to read.  In her mind she was going somewhere, the end of the book was the goal.  Her sister did not agree with any of that.  We got to lesson 23 before the complete mutiny.  We tried Bob books and we got through four sets, she liked reading a whole book like sister, but at the end of the fourth set we had another day of deep despair.  We tried getting easy readers from the library, or reading pages or paragraphs, or indeed words in chapter books but nothing was working.  I finally sat down and asked her how she would like to learn to read.  I was slightly frustrated because she kept asking to learn to read and she kept making books herself, with words and stories that she would dictate to me and then copy down in the books.  She loved to tell crazy and funny stories and write them out and draw the illustrations.  I couldn't understand how she couldn't learn to read.  We sat down together and came up with some ideas.  Finally we settled on an idea of hers.  I wasn't sure if it would work, and I wasn't sure if I had the ability to do it, but after 5 months of her idea, I must say it worked for her.  I wrote stories for her every day, silly stories about animals, aliens, and outside (her ideas).  She read the stories to me and after she read the story she got to illustrate the bottom of the page.  I thought she was crazy but it worked.  She can now read quite well when she wants to, although she still asks me to write stories for her.