Reading List



  •  Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems, Walker Books, ISBN: 9781844280599
  • Dogger by Shirley Hughes, Red Fox, ISBN: 9781862308053
  • Mr Tubs is Lost by Bel Mooney (Blue Bananas series), Egmont Books Ltd, ISBN: 9781405205863
  • Little Penguin Lost by Tracey Corderoy, Little Tiger Press, ISBN: 9781848952447
  • Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas Present by John Burningham, Walker Books, ISBN: 9781844288335
  • Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis, Harper Collins, ISBN: 9780007254828
  • Billy’s Bucket by Kes Gray and Garry Parsons, Red Fox, ISBN: 9780099438748
  • The Usborne Book of Big Machines, ISBN: 9780746099094
  • The Gingerbread Man by Audrey Daly, Ladybird, ISBN: 0721415393/ 978-1846469800 or by Vera Southgate (Ladybird ISBN: 978-1409311096)
  • The Three Little Pigs by Joan Stimson, Ladybird, ISBN: 0721415385/ 978-1846469954 or by Nicola Baxter (Ladybird ISBN: 978-1409306320)
  • No Hickory No Dickory No Dock by John Agard and Grace Nichols, Puffin, ISBN: 0140340270
  • The Works by Paul Cookson, Macmillan, ISBN: 0330481045
  • Read Me First by Louise Bolongaro, Macmillan, ISBN: 0330413430
  • The Works Key Stage 1 chosen by Pie Corbett, Macmillan, ISBN: 0330439472
  • Wouldn’t You Like to Know by Michael Rosen, Puffin, ISBN: 978-0140314151
  • Let’s Play: Poems about sports and games from around the world by Debjani Chatterjee, Brian D’Arcy, Shirin Adl (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, ISBN: 978-1847803702)
  • Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain, by Verna Aardema, MacMillan Children’s Books, ISBN: 978-0333351642
  • Handa’s Hen by Eileen Brown, Walker Books, ISBN: 978-0744598155
  • We All Went on Safari by Laurie Krebs, Barefoot Books, ISBN: 978-1841487823
  • The House That Jack Built by Jenny Stow, Francis Lincoln, ISBN: 9781845079437
  • Anancy and Mr Dry-Bone by Fiona French, Francis Lincoln, ISBN: 9781845071646
  • Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay up Late by Mo Willems, Walker Books, ISBN: 9781406308129
  • Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems, Walker Books, ISBN: 9781844285136
  • The Pigeon Wants a Puppy by Mo Willems, Walker Books,  ISBN: 9781406315509
  • Night Animals by Claire Llewellyn (Rigby Star-Green level) ISBN: 9780433034438
  • Owls by Emily Bone, ISBN: 9781409530664
  • The Works chosen by Paul Cookson, Macmillan, ISBN: 9780330481045
  • Sensational: Poems inspired by the Five Senses chosen by Roger McGough, Macmillan, ISBN: 9781405000055 or 978-0330413442
  • The Works Key Stage 1 chosen by Pie Corbett, MacMillan Children’s Books, ISBN: 9780330439473
  • Easy reading versions of Cinderella, such as Scholastic or Ladybird versions
  • Snow White in New York by Fiona French, ISBN: 0192722107
  • Snow White by J Poole and A Barrett ISBN: 009918561X
  • Traditional versions of Cinderella, Snow White and the Three Billy Goats Gruff
  • Hairy Tales and Nursery Crimes by Michael Rosen, ISBN: 1860221882
  • Eliot Jones: Midnight Superhero by Anne Cottringer and Alex Smith, Scholastic ISBN: 1407105280/ 978-1407105284
  • Superhero ABC by Bob McCleod, Harper Trophy, ISBN: 0060745169/ 978-0060745165
  • Super Daisy by Kes Gray, Red Fox, ISBN: 1862309647/ 978-1862309647
  • Charlie’s Superhero Underpants by Paul Bright, Little Tiger Press, ISBN: 1845069803/ 978-1845069803
  • Dear Greenpeace by Simon James, Walker Books, ISBN: 9781406308488
  • The Dancing Tiger by Malachy Doyle, Simon and Schuster Children’s Books: ISBN: 978-0689873102
  • Tigress by Nick Dowson, Walker Books, ISBN: 978-1406312966
  • Surprising Sharks by Nicola Davies, Walker Books, ISBN: 978-1406312874
  • Ice Bear by Nicola Davies, Walker Books, ISBN: 978-1406313048/978-1406343496 
  • Poem Maker, Word-Shaker by Pie Corbett, ISBN: 1-84458-188-8
  • The Works chosen by Paul Cookson, ISBN: 0-330-48108-5
  • My First Oxford Book of Poems by John Foster, ISBN: 0-19-276339-3
  • The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry, ISBN: 978-0-14-038421-5