Reading List

Suggested good books...

Reception

  • Belonging, Jeannie Baker
  • Beegu, Alexis Deacon
  • The Owl & the Pussycat, Edward Lear
  • The Bog Baby, J Willis
  • Naughty Bus, Jan Oke
  • What the Ladybird Heard, Julia Donaldson
  • Biscuit Bear, Mini Grey
  • Aaaaaargh Spider, Lydia Monks
  • Tanka, Tanka, Skunk, Steve Webb
  • Here’s a Little Poem, Jane Yolen
  • The Leopard’s Drum, Jessica Souhami
  • Surprising Sharks, Nicola Davies
  • The Gigantic Turnip, Alexei Tolstoy
  • So Much, Trish Cooke
  • I Will Not Ever Eat a Tomato, Lauren Child
  • The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson
  • The Old Woman and the Red Pumpkin, Betsy Bang
  • Owl Babies, Martin Waddell
  • The Orchard Book of Nursery Stories, Sophie Windham
  • The Runaway Chipati, Susan Price
  • The Train Ride, June Crebbin
  • A New House for Mouse, Petr Horacek
  • My Very First Mother Goose, Iona Opie
  • Happy Birthday Maisie, Lucy Cousins
  • Hooray for Fish, Lucy Cousins
  • Walking through the Jungle, Julie Lacome
  • Handa’s Surprise, Eileen Browne
  • We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
  • Knuffle Bunny, Mo Willems

Year 1

  • Billy’s Bucket, Kes Gray
  • Sea Horse, Chris Butterworth
  • Max, Bob Graham
  • Farmer Duck, Martin Waddell
  • Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book, Lauren Child
  • The Hodgeheg, D. King Smith
  • The Emperor’s Egg, Martin Jenkins
  • Dragon’s Tears, Manju Gregory
  • The Jolly Postman or Other People’s Letters, Janet & Allan Ahlberg
  • Egg Drop, Mini Grey
  • Emily Brown & the Thing, Cressida Cowell
  • The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems
  • The Story Tree Tales to Read Aloud, Hugh Lupton
  • The Man on the Moon, Simon Batram
  • The Snail and the Whale, Julia Donaldson
  • The Frog Prince Continued, Jon Scieszka
  • The Girl who Spun Gold, Virginia Hamilton

Year 2

  • Into the Forest, Anthony Browne
  • Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White
  • Wolves, Emily Gravett
  • The Tinderbox, Hans Christian Anderson
  • I was a Rat, Phillip Pullman
  • The Sun is Laughing, Sue Ellis
  • Leon & Bob, Simon James
  • Gorilla, Anothony Browne
  • A Nest Full of Stars, James Berry
  • The Princess & the White Bear King, Tanya Robyn Batt
  • Grace & Family, M Hoffman
  • Traction Man, Mini Grey
  • Lila & the Secret of Rain, D Conway
  • 10 Things I Can Do to Help My World, Melanie Walsh
  • The Magic Finger, Roald Dahl
  • The Diary of A Killer Cat, Anne Fine
  • Tom’s Sausage Lion, Michael Morpurgo
  • George Speaks, D. King Smith
  • Care of Henry, Anne Fine

Year 3

  • Carnival of the Animals, Satoshi Kitamura
  • The Silver Donkey, Sonia Hartnett
  • Transfer, Terence Blacker
  • East O’ the Sun & West O’ the Moon, PJ Lynch
  • The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate Di Camillo
  • The Ice Palace, Robert Swindell
  • Gregory Cool, Caroline Birch
  • Krindlekrax, Phillip Ridley
  • Fly Eagle Fly, C Greorowski
  • Tales of Wisdom & Wonder, Hugh Lupton
  • Hot Like Fire, Valerie Bloom
  • Frank & the Black Hamster of Narkiz, L Michael
  • The Enchanted Horse, M Nabb
  • The Mousehole Cat, Jenny Nimmo
  • The Village that Vanished, A Grifaconi
  • The Wolf’s Footprint, Susan Price

Year 4

  • The Adventures of Odysseus, Hugh Lipton
  • Clockwork, Phillip Pullman
  • Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson
  • Seasons of Splendour, Madhur Jaffrey
  • Selected Poems, Charles Causley
  • Macbeth, Shakespeare
  • Fire, Bed & Bone, Henrietta Branford
  • The Midnight Fox, Betsy Byars
  • The Eye of the Wolf, Daniel Pennac
  • One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, Geraldine McCaughrean
  • Varjak Paw, SF Said
  • The Iron Man, Ted Hughes
  • The Pebble in My Pocket, Meredith Hooper
  • Firebird, Saviour Piretta
  • UG, Boy Genius of the Stone Age, Raymond Briggs
  • The Stone Mouse, Jenny Nimmo
  • The Green Ship, Quentin Blake
  • Tales Told in Tents, Sally Pomme

Year 5

  • The London Eye Mystery, Siobhan Dowd
  • The Way Home, Libby Hathorn
  • Skellig, David Almond
  • Sheep don’t go to School, Andrew Peters
  • Floodland, Marcus Sedgwick
  • Streetchild, Berlie Doherty
  • The Lady of Shallot, Tennyson
  • Ice Trap! Meredith Hooper
  • The Savage, David Almond
  • The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes
  • 101 Best Poems for Children
  • Sensational, Roger McGough
  • Love that Dog, Sharon Creech
  • Locomotion, Jaqueline Wilson

Year 6

  • There’s a Boy in the Girls Bathroom, Louis Sachar
  • Refugee Boy, Benjamin Zephaniah
  • Wolf Brother, Michelle Paver
  • Rose Blanche, Ian McEwan and Roberto Innocenti
  • The Garbage King, Elizabeth Laird
  • The Other Side of Truth, Beverly Naidoo
  • The Rabbits, John Marsden and Shaun Tan
  • Eye of the Wolf, Daniel Pennac
  • The Windsinger, William Nicholson
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne
  • Under the Moon and Over the Sea, John Agard
  • Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
  • Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
  • Goodnight Mr Tom, Michelle Magorian

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