Recommended Book List

EYFS

• Dear Zoo – Rod Campbell
• Each Peach Pear Plum – Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg
• Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson
• Peace At Last – Jill Murphy
• The Rainbow Fish – Marcus Pfister
• Room on the Broom – Julia Donaldson
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle
• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly – Pam Adams
• We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – Michael Rosen
• Handa’s Surprise – Eileen Browne
• Dogger – Shirley Hughes
• Elmer – David McKee
• Guess How Much I Love You – Sam McBratney

Year 1

• The Cat in the Hat – Dr Seuss
• The Smartest Giant in Town – Julia Donaldson
• The Gruffalo’s Child – Julia Donaldson
• The Jolly Postman – Allan Ahlberg
• Charlie and Lola – Lauren Child
• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs – Jon Scieszka
• The Tiger Who Came to Tea – Judith Kerr
• Amazing Grace – Mary Hoffman
• Funnybones – Allan Ahlberg
• Hairy Maclary – Lynley Dodd
• The Trouble With Jack – Shirley Hughes
• Non-fiction: Topic Books (e.g. Old Toys, Homes in the Past); Children’s First Atlas.
• Poetry: Nursery Rhymes (Usborne or Puffin), Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar (John Foster)

Year 2

• The Diary of a Killer Cat – Anne Fine
• The Magic Finger – Roald Dahl
• The Famous Five – Enid Blyton
• Horrid Henry – Francesca Simon
• The Worst Witch – Jill Murphy
• Fantastic Mr Fox – Roald Dahl
• Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White
• Mr Magnolia – Quentin Blake
• The Sheep Pig – Dick King Smith
• A Bear Called Paddington – Michael Bond
• Non-fiction: The First Encyclopaedia of Science (Usborne)
• Poetry: Please Mrs Butler (Alan Ahlberg), Revolting Rhymes (Roald Dahl)

Year 3

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
• The Firework Maker’s Daughter – Phillip Pullman
• How to Train your Dragon – Cressida Cowell
• Hodgeheg – Dick King-Smith
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
• Stig of the Dump – Clive King
• Flat Stanley – Jeff Brown
• Voices in the Park – Anthony Browne
• Oliver and the Seawigs – Phillip Reeve
• The Great Kapok Tree – Lynne Cherr
• The Enchanted Wood – Enid Blyton
• Non-fiction: Skara Brae (Dawn Finch); The History Detective Investigates: Stone Age to Iron Age (Clare Hibbert); Meet the Ancient Romans (James Davies); Eye Witness: Ancient Rome.
• Poetry: The Lost Words (Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris); I Like This Poem: A classic anthology (Edited by Kaye Webb).

Year 4

• The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C S Lewis
• Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – John Steptoe
• BFG – Roald Dahl
• The Dragon’s Child – Jenny Nimmo
• The Reluctant Dragon – Kenneth Grahame
• Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Sea Piper – Helen Cresswell
• Spacebaby – Henrietta Branford
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken
• The Demon Headmaster – Gillian Cross
• Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh – Robert C O’Brien
• Non-fiction: Lesser Spotted Animals (Martin Brown); 100 events in History (Jo Cottrill and Cathy Brett).
• Poetry: Dragon Poems (John Foster & Korky Paul)

Year 5

• Harry Potter series – J.K.Rowling
• Listen to the Moon – Michael Morpurgo
• Matilda – Roald Dahl
• Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
• Stormbreaker – Antony Horowitz
• The Box of Delights – John Masefield
• The Iron Man – Ted Hughes
• The Neverending Story – Michael Ende
• Tom’s Midnight Garden – Phillipa Pearce
• Whistling in the Dark – Shirley Hughes
• The Owl Service – Alan Garner
• Non-fiction: The Vicious Vikings (Horrible Histories)
• Poetry: The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry

Year 6