Stories, GLP & ESDGC themes, Foundation Phase and Key Stage 2

Critical Thinking, Development and Sustainability

Foundation Phase

  • Handa's Hen (2003) Eileen Browne, Walker Books
  • Oi! Get Off Our Train (1989) John Burningham, Viking

Foundation Phase and Key Stage 2

  • Window (2002) Jeanne Baker, Walker Books
  • Belonging (2004) Jeanne Baker, Walker Books
  • The Fisherwoman (1990) Anne Carter, Walker Books
  • Mia's Story (2006) Michael Foreman, Walker Books
  • Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish (1972) Michael Foreman, Hamish Hamilton

Key Stage 2

  • Where the Forest Meets the Sea (1987) Jeanne Baker, Walker Books
  • Stories for a Fragile Planet (2012) Kenneth Steven, Lion Children's Books
  • Who will save us? (2007) Rebecca Morch, Rebecca Morch Publishing Ltd
  • The Trouble with Dragons (2009) Debi Gliori, Bloomsbury

ESDGC links: Natural Environment, Culture and Identity, Choices and Decisions, Climate Change

Critical Thinking and Interdependence

Foundation Phase

  • One World (1990) Michael Foreman, Andersen Press
  • The Little Boat (1995) Kathy Henderson, Walker Books
  • Little Rabbit Foo-Foo (1990) Michael Rosen, Walker Books
  • Some Things are Scary (2000) Florence Parry Heide, Walker Books
  • Frog is a Hero (1995) Max Velthuijs, Andersen Press
  • The Gigantic Turnip (1998) Aleksei Tolstoy, Barefoot Books
  • Sglod ar y Môr (2001) Ruth Morgan, Gomer
  • Frog and the Stranger (1988) Max Velthuijs, Andersen Press
  • Six Perfectly Different Pigs (1993) Adrienne Geoghegan, Hazar Publishing
  • Tusk Tusk (1978) David Mckee, Sagebrush
  • Pumpkin Soup / Cawl Pwmpen (1998) Helen Cooper, Doubleday
  • The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! A. Wolf (1991) John Scieszka, Puffin
  • Dyddiadur Kabo (2002) Olive Dyer and Val Scurlock, Gomer

Foundation Phase and Key Stage 2

  • The Boy Who Sailed With Columbus (1991) Michael Foreman, Pavilion Books
  • Dwy Droed Chwith, Jenny Sullivan and Graham Howells / Elin Meek, Gomer
  • The Selfish Giant (1982) Oscar Wilde, Puffin Books
  • Susan Laughs (1999) Jean Willis, Andersen Press

Shompa o India (2001) Jean Harrison, Cymorth Cristnogol

  • Mama Panya’s Pancakes (2006) Chamberlin M and Chamberlin R. Barefoot Books

Key Stage 2

  • The Twits (2013) Roald Dahl, Puffin Books
  • Refugee Boy (2001) Benjamin Zephaniah, Bloomsbury
  • Weslandia (2000) Paul Fleischman, Walker Books
  • The People Who Hugged the Trees (1990) Adapted by Deborah Lee Rose, Roberts Rinehart Inc.
  • The Legend of Freedom Hill (2000) Lind Jacobs Altman, Lee and Low Books
  • Wicked World (poetry) Benjamin Zephaniah, Puffin Books
  • Journey to Jo’berg (1987) Beverley Naidoo,Young Lions
  • The Day of Ahmed’s Secret (1997) Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland, Puffin
  • Hue Boy (1992) Rita Phillips Mitchell, Victor Gollanz
  • When Jessie Came Across the Sea (1999) Amy Hest, Walker Books
  • Azzi In Between (2012) Sarah Garland Frances Lincoln Children's Books
  • Kensuke's Kingdom (2010) Michael Morpugo, Egmont

ESDGC links: Culture and identity, Consumption and Waste, Choices and Decisions

Critical Thinking, Wealth and Poverty

Key Stage 2

  • The No. 1 Car Spotter (2010) Atinuke (Walker Racing Reads)
  • Anna Hibiscus (2007) Atinuke (Walker Racing Reads)
  • The No. 1 Car Spotter and the Broken Road(2015) Atinuke (Walker Racing Reads)
  • The Breadwinner (2014) Deborah Ellis, OUP

ESDGC links: Wealth and Poverty, Consumption and Waste, Health, Choices and Decisions

Critical Thinking and Globalisation

Foundation Phase

  • Oliver's Fruit Salad Paperback (1998) Alison Bartlett and Vivian French Hodder

Foundation Phase and Key Stage 2

  • The World Came To My Place Today (2004) Dr Jo Readman. (EdenProject Books)

ESDGC links: Consumption and Waste, Health, Choices and Decisions