Suggested Books
Autumn 1 / Autumn 2 / Spring 1 / Spring 2 / Summer 1 / Summer 2FS Cycle 1 / Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes – Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury
Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears – Emily Gravett
I Want My Potty! – Tony Ross
The Elephant and the Bad Baby – ElfridaVipont
My Big Shouting Day – Rebecca Patterson
A Goodnight Kind of Feeling – Tony Bradman
Tell Me What it’s Like to be Big – Joyce Dunbar / Bumble-Ardy – Maurice Sendak (birthdays)
Harry and the Dinosaurs Have a Happy Birthday – Ian Whybrow
Moomin and the Birthday Button – ToveJansson
The Nativity Story – Juliet David
The Night Before Christmas – Clement C Moore
Mr Men The Christmas Party – Adam Hargreaves / Here Comes the Train – Charlotte Voake
Cars and Trucks and Things that Go – Richard Scarry
Planes and Rockets and Things that Fly – Richard Scarry / Noah’s Ark Bible Story
The Lark in the Ark -Peter Bently
Dear Zoo – Rod Campbell
Axel Scheffler’s Flip Flap Farm - Axel Scheffler
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – Michael Rosen
The Cat in the Hat – Dr Seuss
Gorilla – Anthony Browne
I Want My Hat Back – Jon Klassen
Where’s Spot? – Eric Hill
Peck PeckPeck – Lucy Cousins
Mouse is Small – Mary Murphy
Actual Size – Steve Jenkins
Chick – Ed Vere
Monkey and Me – Emily Gravett
Silly Suzy Goose – Petr Horacek
Meerkat Mail – Emily Gravett
The Night Before Easter – Natasha Wing / The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle
Tiny – The Invisible World of Microbes – Nicola Davies
Monkey Nut – Simon Rickerty / The Storm Whale – Benji Davies
This Is Not My Hat – Jon Klassen
The Singing Mermaid – Julia Donaldson
Oliver Who Was Small but Mighty – Mara Bergman
Smiley Shark – Ruth Galloway
Jolly Olly Octopus – Tony Mitton
FS Cycle 2 / I Love My Mummy – Giles Andreae
Guji-Guji – Chih-Yaun Chen
The Odd Egg – Emily Gravett
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy – Lynley Dodd?
Not Now, Bernard – David McKee
Aunt Amelia – Rebecca Cobb
A Place to Call Home – Alexis Deacon
A Bit Lost – Chris Haughton
The Bog Baby – Jeanne Willis
Za-Za’s Baby Brother – Lucy Cousins
Harris Finds His Feet – Catherine Rayner
My Dad Thinks He’s Funny – Katrina Germein
Woooo! – Gerry Turley
My Dad is Beautiful – Jessica Spanyol / The Big Ceremony – OziOkaro (weddings)
The Snowman – Raymond Briggs
Christmas Time – Alison Jay
Father Christmas Needs a Wee – Nicholas Allan
A Christmas Story – Brian Wildsmith / The Jolly Postman – Janet and Allen Ahlberg
A Day at the Fire Station – Richard Scarry
Cops and Robbers – Allan Ahlberg
Elmo Visits the Dentist – P J Shaw
Kevin and the School Nurse – Martine Davison / Each Peach Pear Plum – Allan Ahlberg
Room on the Broom – Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Meg and Mog – Helen Nicholl and Jan Pienkowski
Do Not Enter the Monster Zoo – Anna Kemp
Big Scary Monster – Thomas Docherty
But Martin! – June Counsel
Wanda and the Alien – Sue Hendra
The Easter Story – Juliet David
My Story of Easter – Karen Williamson / I Will Not Ever Never Eat A Tomato – Lauren Child
The Tiger Who Came to Tea – Judith Kerr
Lunchtime – Rebecca Cobb
The Odd Dog – Claudia Boldt
Lenny has Lunch – Ken Wilson-Max
Delicious! – Helen Cooper / Lost and Found – Oliver Jeffers
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
Just Ducks – Nicola Davies
Cats Ahoy! – Peter Bently
The Pirates Next Door – Jonny Duddle
Lucy and Tom at the Seaside – Shirley Hughes
Counting Birds – Alice Melvin
Y1 / A First Book of Nature – Nicola Davies
Welcome to Bugville – Paul Howard
A Boy and A Bear in a Boat – Dave Shelton / The Great Fire of London (poem) – Paul Perro
No Dragons for Tea: Fire Safety for Kids – Jean E Pendziwol / Katie Morag’s Island Stories – MairiHedderwick
More Katie Morag Island Stories – MairiHedderwick
The High Street – Alice Melvin / The Factory Made Boy – Christine Nostlinger
Baby Brains and Robomum – Simon James
Baby Ruby Bawled – Malaika Rose Stanley / The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson
This Moose Belongs to Me – Oliver Jeffers
Big Blue Train – Julia Jarman
Big Red Bath – Julia Jarman
Can I Come Too? – Brian Patten
Y2 / Oliver and the Seawigs–Phillip Reeve
Pirates ‘n’ Pistols: Ten Swashbuckling Pirate Tales – Chris Moulds
Treasure Island (Children’s Classics) – Robert Louis Stevenson
Harry and the Jaggedy Daggers – Jan Fearnley
Small Knight and George and the Pirates – Ronda Armitage
The Night Pirates – Peter Harris / The Lion, the Unicorn and Me – Jeanette Winterson (Christmas story through donkey’s eyes)
Bible Stories / The Adventures of Robin Hood – Marcia Williams / The Jade Boy – Kate Cain
Florence Nightingale – Shannon Zernlicka / The Sheep-Pig – Dick King-Smith
Charlotte’s Web – E B White
The Parade – A Stampede of Stories About Ananse the Trickster Spider – KP Kojo / Nat Fantastic and the Brave Knights of Old – Giles Andreae
The Witches – Roald Dahl
The Worst Witch – Jill Murphy
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C S Lewis
Y3 / Star Dancer – Beth Webb
The Secrets of Stonehenge – Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom
Soul Eater – Michelle Paver
Fire Dreamer – Beth Webb
Stig of the Dump – Clive King / A Roman Rescue (Part of Charlie and the Bandit Adventure series) – Kelly Gerard
The Romans: Gods, Emperors and Dormice - Marcia Williams
The Time-Travelling Cat and the Roman Eagle – Julia Jarman / The Battle of the Sun – Jeanette Winterson
The Time-Travelling Cat and the Tudor Treasure – Julia Jarman / Shakespeare Plays
Y4 / An Egyptian Escape – K A Gerrard
Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharaohs – Marcia Williams
Mystery of the Egyptian Scroll: Secret Agent Zet series – Scott Peters
The Time-Travelling Cat and the Egyptian Goddess – Julia Jarman
The Mummified Daddy Chronicles – M J Taylor / Viking Boy – Tony Bradman
The Saga of Erik the Viking – Terry Jones
The Sword of the Viking King – Terry Deary
The Eye of the Viking God – Terry Deary
The Lost Diary of Erik Bloodaxe, Viking Warrior – Steve Barlow
Beowulf – Michael Morpurgo / A Kid’s Guide to Helen Keller - eKids
Archie the Guide Dog Puppy: Hero in Training – Samantha Hay / Under the Weather – Tony Bradman
The Great Paper Caper – Oliver Jeffers
Journey to the River Sea – Eva Ibbotson
Whale Boy – Nicola Davies
The Abominables – Eva Ibbotson
Can We Save the Tiger? – Martin Jenkins
Flood Child – Emily Diamond
Stories for a Fragile Planet – Kenneth Steven
Y5 / George’s Secret Key to the Universe – Lucy and Stephen Hawking
George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt – Lucy and Stephen Hawking
George and the Big Bang – Lucy and Stephen Hawking
Space in 30 Seconds – Clive Gifford
Mars Evacuees – Sophia McDougall
How to be a Space Explorer – Lonely Planet Kids / Helping Hercules – Francesca Simon
The Children’s Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and Troy – Padraic Colum
Children of the Fox – Jill Paton Walsh / In The Sea There Are Crocodiles – Fabio Geda
The Garbage King – Elizabeth Laird
Shadow – Michael Morpurgo
Grace – Morris Gleitzman
A Nest of Vipers – Catherine Johnson / Wild Boy – Rob Lloyd Jones
Twelve Minutes to Midnight – Christopher Edge
The Whispering Road – Livi Michael
The Battles of Ben Kingdom: The Claws of Evil – Andrew Beasley
Larklight – Phillip Reeve
Y6 / The Time-Travelling Cat and the Aztec Sacrifice – Julia Jarman
The Sun Staff: Pok-ta-pok – Andy Fuhriman / WW2
Carrie’s War – Nina Bawden
Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
Once - Morris Gleitzman
Taff in the WAFF – Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom
Duty Calls: Battle of Britain – James Holland
Duty Calls: Dunkirk – James Holland
The Night of the Burning – Linda Press Wulf
WW1
The Best Christmas Present in the World – Michael Morpurgo
Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo
The Silver Donkey – Sonya Hartnett
Walter Tull’s Scrapbook – Michaela Morgan
Shadow of the Zeppelin – Bernard Ashley
Stories of WW1 – Tony Bradman / Song Hunter – Sally Prue
Outcast – Michelle Paver
One Smart Fish – Chris Wormell
Z-Rex – Steve Cole
How to be A Dinosaur Hunter – Scott Forbes / The Brilliant World of Tom Gates – Liz Pichon
Wonder – R J Palacio