Suggested Year 3 Book List

Some of these books may be suitable for your child to read themselves and some are suggestions of books you could read to them.

Book Title / Author
Contemporary
The World According to Humphrey (series) / Betty G Birney
Harry, the Poisonous Centipede / Lynne Reid Banks
Beast Quest (collection) / Adam Blade
The Secret Seven (series) / Enid Blyton
The Magic Faraway Tree (series) / Enid Blyton
The Famous Five (series) / Enid Blyton
Dilly the Dinosaur / Tony Bradman
Flat Stanley (series) / Jeff Brown
Magic Ballerina (series) / Darcy Bussell
Mister Majeika (series) / Humphrey Carpenter
Spy Dog (series) / Andrew Cope
How to Train Your Dragon (series) / Cressida Cowell
The Secret World of Polly Flint / Helen Cresswell
The Enormous Crocodile / Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr Fox / Roald Dahl
The Magic Finger / Roald Dahl
Dog in the Dungeon / Lucy Daniels
Tilly’s Pony Tails (collection) / Pippa Funnell
Lucy Willow / Sally Gardner
Sugar Plum Ballerinas (series) / Whoppi Goldberg
The 13-Storey Treehouse (collection) / Andy Griffiths
Charlie Moon (collection) / Shirley Hughes
Frankie’s Magic Football (collection) / Frank Lampard
PippiLongstocking / Astrid Lindgren, illustrated by Lauren Child
Football Academy (collection) / Tom Palmer
Captain Underpants (series) / DavPilkey
Wilf the Mighty Worrier Saves the World / Georgia Pritchett
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat (series) / Chris Riddell
You’re a Bad Man Mr Gum (series) / Andy Stanton
My Brother’s Famous Bottom (series) / Jeremy Strong
Classic

The Children of Green Knowe

/ Lucy Boston
Rumpelstiltskin and Other Grimm Tales / Carol Ann Duffy
Stig of the Dump / Clive King
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe / C.S. Lewis
Winnie the Pooh (collection) / AA Milne
Classic (cont.)
Orchard Book of Greek Myths / Saviour Pirotta
Heidi (collection) / Johanna Spyri
The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark / Jill Tomlinson
Mary Poppins (series) / P.L. Travers
Charlotte’s Web / E.B. White
Picture texts and graphic novels
Where the Forest Meets the Sea / Jeannie Baker
Mirror / Jeannie Baker
Alice in Wonderland / Emma Chichester Clark (based on Lewis Carroll’s original)
The Princess and the Pea / Lauren Child
Clarice Bean, Utterly Me / Lauren Child
The Egyptian Cinderella / Shirley Climo
The Glass Heart / Sally Gardner
Tin Tin (collection) / Hergé
Football Star / Mina Javaherbin
The Invisible Boy / Trudy Ludwig
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs / Jon Scieszka
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale / John Steptoe
Robin Hood / Marcia Williams
Poetry
Jelly Boots, Smelly Books / Micheal Rosen
Adder, Bluebell, Lobster / Chrissie Gittins
The Hunting of the Snark / Lewis Carroll
Under the Moon and Over the Sea: A Collection of Caribbean Poems / Ed. John Agard & Grace Nichols
100 Best Poems for Children / Ed. Roger McGough
The World’s Greatest Space Cadet / James Carter

On the whole, these are fiction books and, of course, non-fiction books can sometimes be the ones that really hook a reluctant reader so it’s worth checking these out too (especially for football-mad children!).

Finally there are lots of websites with useful information:

www3.rbwm.gov.uk/info/200197/libraries