Recommended book list Compiled by Alison Philipson and Bradford Literacy Co-ordinators – Autumn 2013 (N.B. many of these texts are easily transferrable to year groups other than those mentioned in the notes and can be used in other contexts) TITLE AUTHOR USEFUL INFORMATION Pigs Might Fly Peace at Last The Very Hungry Caterpillar Mixed Up Fairy Tales The Animal Boogie Superworm Amazing Gregory Cool Mama Pancakes The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark Daft Bat The Magic Bed Meerkat Mail Wolf Won’t Bite ! Percy the Park Keeper stories Jonathan Emmett Jill Murphy Eric Carle Hilary Robinson Debbie Harker Julia Donaldson Caroline Binch Caroline Binch Mary and Rich Chamberlain Jill Tomlinson Jeanne Willis John Burningham Emily Gravett Emily Gravett Nick Butterworth EYFS/Y1 – alternative version of The Three Little Pigs EYFS EYFS EYFS EYFS EYFS – great rhyming book/boys love this book Y2 – Stories from Other Cultures Y2 – Stories from Other Cultures Y2 – Stories from Other Cultures Y2 – nocturnal animals Y2 – nocturnal animals Y2 – fits in with SATs task the magic pebble Y1/Y2 – good for travelling/journeys/Africa KS1 – good links with Science
The Who Came to Tea Whatever Next ? The Terrible Plop Room on the Broom What the Ladybird The Jolly Postman Our Cat Cuddles The Faraway Tree Dogger Lost and Found Giraffes Can’t Dance The Tunnel The Lighthouse Keeper stories The Teddy Robber A Visitor for Bear The Sniffles for Bear Bedtime for Bear A Birthday for Bear Emily Brown and the Elephant Emergency Judith Kerr Jill Murphy Ursula Dubosarsky Julia Donaldson Julia Donaldson Allan Ahlberg Gervase Phinn Enid Blyton Shirley Hughes Oliver Jeffers Giles Andreae Anthony Browne Ronda Armitage Ian Beck Bonny Becker Cressida Cowell KS1 KS2 – dialogue KS1 – planets KS1/humour/boys love it for KS1 KS1 – useful for letter and invitation writing and good link to fairy tales KS1 – a story with a twist/rhyming PSHCE PSHCE Believing in yourself/great for P.E./ rhyming Stories with Dilemmas/ mystery stories/adventure stories/could be used with Pie Corbett imitation/innovation, developing imagination etc. Good for Pie Corbett retelling and a Summer/seaside Bear theme/feelings/ imagination/good for Pie Corbett’s Boxing Up Character relationships/inference/ Prediction/characters’ personalities Geography (explorers)/dialogue/inference/how has the author made feelings clear ?
Who’s in the Loo ? The Bog Baby Misery Moo Handa’s Surprise Huge Bag of Worries The Three Horrid Pigs and the Big Friendly Wolf The Pea and the Princess Stick Man Jack and the Flumflum Tree A fish Out of Water The Queen’s Knickers The Giant Jam Sandwich 006 and a Bit A Bit Lost The Story of the Little Mole who knew it was none of his business The Forest The Flower Tin Forest The Dragon Machine The Tailypo: A Ghost Story Traction Man meets Turbo Dog Until I Met Dudley Jeanne Willis Jeanne Willis Jeanne Willis Eileen Browne Virginia Ironside Liz Pichon Mini Grey Julia Donaldson Julia Donaldson Helen Palmer Nicholas Allan John Vernon Lord Kes Gray Chris Haughton Werner Holzwarth Helen Ward Helen Ward Helen Ward Joanna Galdone Mini Grey Roger McGough Prediction/rhyme Link to traditional tales with dialogue – different version The story from the pea’s point of view ! A little bit rude – boys love it ! KS1/KS2 – Stories in Familiar Settings/environmental issues/how plants grow well KS1/KS2 KS1 book but used in Y6 as a follow-on to Traction Man (Heroes) Explanation text/fiction vs non fiction
The Arrival The Lost Thing Tuesday The Mysteries of Harry Burdick Iron Man Gangsta Granny Grandma’s Teeth I Want my Hat Back The Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom I was a Rat Room 13 Ma’at’s Feather Cool Stitch Head Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book George Scares the World by Lunchtime Weslandia How to Live Forever The Garden Shaun Tan Shaun Tan David Wiesner David Wiesner Ted Hughes David Walliams David Webb John Klasson Louis Sachar Philip Pullman Robert Swindells Juliet Desailly Michael Morpurgo Guy Bass Julia Donaldson Dr. Jo Readman Paul Fleischman Colin Thompson Gillian Linscott KS2 KS2 KS2 KS2 KS2 KS2 - ‘Reading Book Club’ text – very popular fun book Science/PSHCE Upper KS2 - PSHCE/SEAL/friendship issues/ boys who find it difficult to achieve at school/bullying Victorians/adventure/PSHCE Good for looking at strategies for building tension/suspense in writing Egyptians PSHCE Feeling unwanted Environmental theme Bullying/PSHCE/new beginnings/ Other worlds/friendship Narrative/cross curricular links/ Native American/powerful descriptive language
Mr Men and Little Miss Stories The Drop in my Drink The Pebble in my Pocket Stuck Gorilla Jumanji The Green Ship Tadpole’s Promise Two Frogs Window Mirror The Colour of Home Siddharth and Short ! It’s a Book ! Roger Hargreaves Meredith Hooper Meredith Hooper Oliver Jeffers Anthony Brown Chris Van Allsburg Quentin Blake Jeanne Willis Chris Wormell Jeannie Jeannie Baker Mary Hoffman Addy Farmer Kevin Crossley-Holland Lane Smith Stories by the same author/author is from Cleckheaton – children wrote their own Mr or Miss story to promote reading Water cycle Rock cycle Problem solving Good for speaking and listening/diary entries/letters/PSHCE Adventure stories/great images Stories in Imaginary Worlds Life Cycles/prediction/PSHCE The environment (no words) Stories from Other Cultures Stories from Other Cultures A book of very short stories – great for guided reading Compares technology with a book – very clever and very funny