0-2 Years
Recommended Reads
I love my mummy Giles Andreae
Happy Snappy! Jo Lodge
That’s Not My Tiger... Fiona Watt
Hop a Little, Jump a Little! Annie Kubler
Baby Loves Tiger Claire Dowe
The Big Night-Night Book Georgie Birkett
Five Little Ducks Francesca Stich and Jemima Lumley
Baby’s Very First Outdoors Book Jenny Tyler
That’s not my Frog… Fiona Watt
The Baby’s Catalogue Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Dear Zoo Rod Campbell
Chick Ed Vere
Is This My Nose? Georgie Birkett
Tucking In! Jess Stockham
I Love You! David Ellwand & Mike Jolley
Lenny has Lunch Ken Wilson-Max
Elmer and the Lost Teddy David McKee
Hello Tilly Polly Dunbar
Snuggle Up, Sleepy Ones Claire Freedman
Up and Down Oliver Jeffers
Baby Einstein: Mirror Me J Aigner-Clark
Baby’s Very First Touchy-Feely Book S Baggott
Clap Hands H Oxenbury
Faces J Fordham
Peepo! Bunny E Butler
Teddy or Train? A Lewis
Wally Whale P Adams
Dogs Don’t do Ballet A Kemp
Little Drivers: Here to Help D Crisp
Spot’s Noisy Night E Hill
Annie Rose is My Little Sister Shirley Hughes
Handa’s Hen Eileen Browne
Charlie and Lola Board Books Lauren Child
Popular Books
Spot series Eric Hill
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes Mem Fox
That’s Not My … Series Fiona Watt
Noodle Loves series Marion Billet
I love my Daddy Giles Andreae
Thomas and Friends Rev. W. Awdry
The Bad-Tempered Ladybird Eric Carle
Jonah’s Incredible Journey Elena Pasquali
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin Jr.
Sheep in a Jeep Nancy E. Shaw
Bark, George Jules Feiffer
In the Tall, Tall Grass Denise Fleming
Silly Suzy Goose Petr Horacek
The Little Dinosaur Michael Foreman
If You’re Happy and You Know It! Jan Ormerod and Lindsay Gardiner
Babies Ros Asquith, illustrated by Sam Williams
Pants Giles Andreae and Nick Sharrat
Giddy Up! Let’s Ride! Flora McDonnell
My Nose, Your Nose Melanie Walsh
Classics
The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper and Loren Long
Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown
The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein
Three Little Pigs James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle
Tales of Mother Goose Charles Perrault
Pat the Bunny Dorothy Kunhardt
The Runaway Bunny Margaret Wise Brown
Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
Mog Series Judith Kerr
Love You Forever Robert Munsch, Sheila McGraw
Toddle Waddle Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt
Meg and Mog (Board) Helen Nicoll
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Doreen Cronin
Owl Babies Martin Waddell
2-4 years
Recommended Reads
Scruffy Bear and the six white mice Chris Wormell
Yuck! That’s not a monster Angela McAllister & Alison Edgson
we’re going on a bear hunt Michael Rosen & Helen Oxenbury
There Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
The Lion Who Wanted to Love Giles Andreae
Oliver who Travelled Far and Wide Mara Bergman
Stuck Oliver Jeffers
A Bit Lost Chris Haughton
Tiny Little Fly Michael Rosen
Wolf Won’t Bite! Emily Gravett
The Incredible Book Eating Boy Oliver Jeffers
A Splendid Friend, Indeed Suzanne Bloom
Penguin Polly Dunbar
Goodnight Baby Bat! Debi Gliori
Henny Penny Vivian French
How do you feel? Anthony Browne
Lion’s Lunch Fiona Tierney
Where’s My Teddy? Jez Alborough
Mini Picture Dictionary S Turhan and S Hagin
Lulu Loves Stories A McQuinn
Dogs Don’t Do Ballet A Kemp
Full, full, full of Love T Cooke
Lost and Found O Jeffers
The Tiger Who Came to Tea J Kerr
We All Went on Safari L Krebs
Ernest C Rayner
There Are Cats in This Book V Schwartz
Don’t let the Pigeon drive the bus Mo Willems
Just like my Dad David Melling
Goodbye Mog Judith Kerr
I Hate School Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
Bunny Cakes Rosemary Wells
The Big Big Sea Martin Waddell
Popular Books
Augustus and His Smile Catherine Rayner
Noddy Enid Blyton
I Don’t Want to be a Pea Ann Bonwill
Press Here Hervé Tullet
Ernest Catherine Rayner
Giraffes Can’t Dance Giles Andreae
What the Ladybird Heard Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks
Faster, Faster! Nice and Slow! Sue Heap
There Are No Cats in this Book Viviane Schwarz
Puffin Peter Petr Horáček
Rollo and Ruff and the Little Fluffy Bird Mick Imkpen
Peppa Pig Various
Happy Learners series Jillian Phillips
Pirate Pete’s Potty Andrea Pinnington
Monkey And Me Emily Gravett
Dora the Explorer series Various
The Very Hungry Caterpillar series Eric Carle
Pip and Posy and the Little Puddle A Scheffler
What I Like! G Phinn
Book of Nursery Rhymes Ladybird Books
Charlie and Lola series L Child
Ketchup on your Cornflakes? N Sharratt
Howler Michael Rosen
The Great Paper Caper Oliver Jeffers
My Uncle is a Hunkle Says Clarice Lauren Child
I am too Absolutely Small for School Lauren Child
Winnie the Witch Korky Paul and Valerie Thomas
Also:
Picture Books by Julia Donaldson (Stick Man, Room on the Broom, The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Zog etc.)
Picture Books by Shirley Hughes (Annie Rose is my Little Sister, Abel’s Moon, Alfie etc.)
Classics
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Fox in Socks Dr. Seuss
The Little Mermaid Michael Teitelbaum
Dumbo Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl
Bambi Felix Salten
Pinocchio Carlo Collodi
Green Eggs & Ham Dr. Seuss
Goldilocks and the Three Bears Robert Southey
The Owl and the Pussycat Edward Lear
The Little Red Hen Unknown
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck Beatrix Potter
The Snowman Raymond Briggs
The Gingerbread Man Unknown
The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams
Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond
4-7 years
Recommended Reads
The Tiger Who Came To Tea Judith Kerr
A Piece Of Cake Jill Murphy
Boom Chicka Boom Liz Weir
Bunny My Honey Anita Jeram
Can’t You Sleep Little Bear? Martin Waddell
Clap Hands Helen Oxenbury
Dear Zoo Rod Campbell
Elmer and the Lost Teddy by David McKee
Farmer Duck Martin Waddell
I Love My Mummy Giles Andreae
I’ll Always love You Hans Wilhelm
Owl Babies Martin Waddell
That’s Not my Tiger… Fiona Watt (There are multiple titles in this series)
The Baby’s Catalogue Janet and Allan Ahlberg
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf Jon Scieszka
Up And Down Oliver Jeffers
Zog Julia Donaldson
The Jolly Postman Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Aliens Love Underpants Claire Freedman
The Lonely Beast Chris Judge
The Cats in Krasinski Square Karen Hesse
The Heart and the Bottle Oliver Jeffers
Her Mother’s Face Roddy Doyle
Cats Ahoy! Peter Bently
Otto the Book Bear Katie Cleminson
A Place to Call Home Alexis Deacon
Dog Loves Books Louise Yates
One Fish Smart Chris Wormell
On the Road with Mavis and Marge Niamh Sharkey
Sniffer and Naughty Nancy Roger Abbott
Football Academy: Boys United Tom Palmer
Mr. Cool Jacqueline Wilson
The Owl Who Was Afraid of theDdark Jill Tomlinson
The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth Eoin Colfer
But Where Completely are we? L Child
We all went on safari L Krebs
30 Yummy Things to cook C Atkinson
Dressing Up Fairies N Lambert
Harry and Hopper M Wild
Horrid Henry Rocks F Simon
Penguin Polly Dunbar
Romans Vs Dinosaurs on Mars T Wessen
You Choose P Goodhart and N Sharratt
The Jumble Book T Stevens (Editor)
We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Michael Rosen
Orange Pear Apple Bear Emily Gravett
The World Came To My Place Today Jo Readman
Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman
Flat Stanley Jeff Brown
George Speaks Dick King-Smith
The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog Jeremy Strong
Popular Books
The Twin Giants Dick King-Smith
Egg Drop Mini Grey
Rainbow Magic series Daisy Meadows
Mr. Men Series Roger Hargreaves
The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson
Hey Presto! Nadia Shireen
The Giggler Treatment Roddy Doyle
Rover Saves Christmas Roddy Doyle
Meanwhile Adventures Roddy Doyle
Jonathan and Martha Petr Horacek
Where’s Spot Eric Hill (and other Spot books by the same author)
No! Martha Altes
The Pirates Next Door Jonny Duddle
Jack and the Flum Flum Tree Julia Donaldson
Good Little Wolf Nadia Shireen
Guji Guji Chih-Yuan Chen
Oliver Who Was Small but Mighty Mara Bergman
Box of Tricks Katie Cleminson
The Great Paper Caper Oliver Jeffers
Winnie the Witch Valerie Thomas
Dinosaurs Love Underpants Claire Freedman
Don’t Worry Douglas David Melling
The Big Sticky Bun Vivian French
The Lorax Dr. Seuss
My Granny is a Pirate Val McDermid
Room on the Broom Julia Donaldson
The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr
Commotion in the Ocean Giles Andreae
Dirty Bertie series Alan McDonald
The Legend of Spud Murphy Eoin Colfer
The Curious Kitten Lucy Daniels
Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid Megan McDonald
Judy Moody books Megan McDonald
Witch Baby and Me Debi Gliori
And then there were 10 Egmont Books
Iggy and Me J Valentine
The Playful Puppy L Daniels
Think of an Eel K Wallace
Where’s Wally: Fantastic Journey M Handford
Horse M Doyle and A Rinaldi
Little Rabbit Foo Foo M Rosen
Dino Dinners A Manning
How to Draw Animals F Watt
Eat Your Peas K Gray
Mixed up Fairy Tales H Robinson
See You Later, Alligator! A Kubler
Prehistoric Actual Size S Jenkins
Traction Man is Here M Grey
A Footballer Called Flip I Whybrow
Bats A John L’Hommedieu
Even Stevens F.C. M Rosen
Gorilla City C Small
The Little Dinosaur Michael Foreman
In the Tall, Tall Grass Denise Fleming
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin Jr.
The Bad-Tempered Ladybird Eric Carle
I love my Daddy Giles Andreae
Rumble in the Jungle Giles Andreae
The Cat in The Hat Dr. Seuss
Horrid Henry series Francesca Simon
Chimp and Zee Laurence Anholt
My Wobbly Tooth Must Not Ever Never Fall Out Lauren Child
Diary Of A Killer Cat Anne Fine
My Brother Bernadette Jacqueline Wilson
The Legend of Spud Murphy Eoin Colfer
The Worst Witch series Jill Murphy
Classics
Sleeping Beauty Unknown
101 Dalmatians Dodie Smith
Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne
The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams Bianco
The Gingerbread Man Unknown
Little Red Riding Hood Unknown
Thumbelina Hans Christian Andersen
The Elves and the Shoemaker Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Where the Wild Things Maurice Sendak
Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren
The Story of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting
Curious George H. A. Rey
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Fantastic Mr Fox Roald Dahl
The Iron Man Ted Hughes
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark Jill Tomlinson
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Helen Oxenbury
Oi! Get off our Train John Burningham
Dogger Shirley Hughes
An Evening at Alfies (and other titles in the Alfie series)
Matilda Roald Dahl
Stranger Danger Anne Fine
Bill’s New Frock Anne Fine
The Baby’s Catalogue Allan Ahlberg
Dear Zoo Rod Campbell
Each Peach Pear Plum Allan Ahlberg
Rosie’s Walk Pat Hutchins
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle
The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson
The Polar Express Chris Van Allsburg
The Tale Of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter
Esio Trot Roald Dahl
The Twits Roald Dahl
Josie Smith books Magdalen Nabb
7-9 years
Recommended Reads
Best Friends Jacqueline Wilson
The Legend of the Worst Boy in the World Eoin Colfer
The Diary of a Killer Cat Anne Fine
The Butterfly Lion Michael Morpurgo
Animals don’t have ghosts Siobhan Parkinson
Beware! Killer Tomatoes Jeremy Strong
Highway Robbery Kate Thompson
Farther Grahame Baker-Smith
Snakes’ Elbows Deirdre Madden
Fierce Milly Marilyn McLaughlin
It’s a Book Lane Smith
Little Red Hood Marjolaine Leray
Nature Adventures Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom
The Scarecrow and his Servant Philip Pullman
The evil hairdo Oisín McGann
Animals in School Julia Donaldson
The Diary of a Killer Cat Anne Fine
Actual Size S Jenkins
Create Your Own Superhero Stories Buster Books
How-To Handbook Egmont Books
Lizzy Zipmouth J Wilson
The Giggler Treatment Roddy Doyle
Rover Saves Christmas Roddy Doyle
The Meanwhile Adventures Roddy Doyle
Popular Books
A Boy and a Bear in a Boat Dave Shelton
Special Powers Mary Hoffman
Under the hawthorn tree Marita Conlon-McKenna
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
Little Manfred Michael Morpurgo
The Abominables Eva Ibboston
A Little, Aloud, for Children Michael Morpurgo
Do Igloos Have Loos? Mitchell Symons
The Official Countdown to the London 2012 Games Simon Hart
Letters from an Alien Schoolboy Ros Asquith
The Parade KP Kojo
One Dog and His Boy Eva Ibbotson
Big Day Out Jacqueline Wilson
See Inside Your Body Katie Daynes and Colin King
Matilda Roald Dahl
Magicalamity Kate Saunders
Laugh Your Socks Off Even More Joke Book J Strong
A Mouse Called Wolf Dick King-Smith
Horse Pie Dick King-Smith
George Speaks Dick King-Smith
How to write really badly Anne Fine
The Dreaming Tree Eithne Massey
The Little Witch Who Can’t Spell Marie Burlington
Demon from the Deep End James Allison
Her Mother’s Face Roddy Doyle
Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl
Esio Trot Roald Dahl
Gangsta Granny David Walliams
Mr. Stink David Walliams
Bill’s New Frock Anne Fine
Series books
Horrid Henry series Francesca Simon
Dirty Bertie series Alan Macdonald
Angela Nicely series Alan Macdonald
Alfie Green series Joe O’Brien
The Magic Key series Roderick Hunt
Beast Quest series Adam Blade
Sea Quest series Adam Blade
Captain Underpants series Dav Pilkey
Stink series Megan McDonald
Judy Moody series Megan McDonald
Elf Girl and Raven Boy series Marcus Sedgwick
Adventure Island series Helen Moss
Kitty and Friends series Various
Maisie Hitchens series Holly Webb
Mr. Gum series Andy Stanton
Magic Molly series Holly Webb
Triplets series Holly Webb
Lily series Holly Webb
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series Jeff Kinney
My Magical Pony series Jenny Oldfield
Alice series Judi Curtin
Penny Dreadful series Joanna Nadin
Moshi Monsters series various
Hundred-mile-an-hour dog series Jeremy Strong
Big Nate series Lincoln Peirce
Geronimo Stilton series
Indie Kidd series Karen McCombie
Horrible History series Terry Deary
Astrosaurs series Steve Cole
Animal Ark series Lucy Daniels
Jamie & Angus series Anne Fine
Time Hunters series Chris Blake