Reading Lists
Suggested good books.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
