Contents
Page 2 Contents Page 3 Local Bookshops
Page 4 Magazines and Newspapers for children Page 5 Dictionary and Thesaurus recommendations Pages 6 -7 Foundation Stage Pages 8 - 9 Year 1 Pages 10 - 12 Year 2 Pages 13 - 15 Year 3 Pages 16 - 18 Year 4 Pages 19 - 21 Year 5 Pages 22 - 24 Year 6 Local Bookshops
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop Nailsworth 01453-832555 Tetbury 01666 500221 http://www.yellow-lightedbookshop.co.uk/index.html
Stroud Bookshop Stroud 01453 756646
Octavia’s Bookshop Cirencester 01285 650677 http://www.octaviasbookshop.co.uk/
The Suffolk Anthology Cheltenham 01242 361 362 http://www.theanthology.co.uk/
Magazines and Newspapers for children
First News http://www.firstnews.co.uk/
National Geographic for Kids http://www.ngkids.co.uk/
Aquila https://www.aquila.co.uk/
Storytime http://www.storytimemagazine.com/
The Phoenix Comic http://www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk/
The Week Junior http://theweekjunior.co.uk/
Whizz Pop Bang! http://www.whizzpopbang.com/
Okido http://www.okido.co.uk/ Dictionary and Thesaurus recommendations
Foundation Stage & Key Stage 1 Oxford First Dictionary Oxford Phonics Spelling Dictionary My First Dictionary (DK) Usborne First Illustrated Dictionary Usborne First Illustrated Maths Dictionary Oxford First Illustrated Maths Dictionary Oxford First Thesaurus My First Ladybird Thesaurus
Key Stage 2 Oxford Primary Dictionary Oxford Primary Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary Collins Junior Illustrated Dictionary Collins Primary Illustrated Dictionary Usborne Junior Illustrated Maths Dictionary Oxford Primary Thesaurus Scholastic Children’s Thesaurus Descriptosaurus by Alison Wilcox
Foundation Stage Fiction/Picture books Elmer and the Rainbow by David McKee There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Pam Adams You Can Be My Friend by Lauren Child Kipper’s Rainy Day by Mick Inkpen The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord The Snail and the Whale Big Book by Julia Donaldson One Warm Fox by Nick Butterworth The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram We’re Going on a Bearhunt by Michael Rosen Emma’s Lamb by Kim Lewis Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear? By Martin Waddell Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne Ruby’s Rainy Day by Rosemary Wells The Polar Bear Son by Lydia Dabcovich The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson and Paul Howard Our Cat Cuddles by Gervase Phinn Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister The Snowman by Raymond Briggs Albert and Little Henry by Jez Alborough Up, Up and Away by Tom McLaughlin Dinosaur Roar! by Henrietta Strickland You Must Bring a Hat by Simon Philip The Messy Book by Maudy Powell-Tuck The Most Wonderful Thing in the World by Vivian French Foundation Stage Poetry Wriggle And Roar- Julia Donaldson A Squash and a Squeeze - Julia Donaldson Rumble In The Jungle- Giles Andrea All Join In - Quentin Blake Down The Back of The Chair - Margaret Mahy Mother Goose’s Action Rhymes- Axel Scheffler Each Peach Pear Plum - Janet and Allen Ahlberg My Village, Rhymes from Around the World - Danielle Wright (ed) Stomp, Chomp, Big Roars! Here Come the Dinosaurs - Kaye Umansky Here’s a Little Poem- Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters (ed)
Non-fiction Oxford Very First Atlas Oxfam’s Around the World Series Collins’ Big Cat Non-Fiction Series A Book of… - Ashley Evanson DK First Facts Year 1 Fiction/Picture books The Famishing Vanishing Mahoosive Mammoth by Hollie Hughes A Beginner’s Guide to Bearspotting by Michelle Robertson A Brave Bear by Sean Taylor A House in the Woods by Inga Moore A New Room for William by Sally Grindley A Place to call Home by Alexis Deacon A Walk in the Park by Anthony Browne Olga da Polga by Michael Bond Alfie Outdoors by Shirley Hughes Basil the Bear Club by Janie Louise Jones Boa’s Bad Birthday by Jeanne Willis The Glump and the Peeble by Wendy Meddour My Mum And Dad Make Me Laugh- Nick Sharratt Giraffes Can’t Dance- Giles Andreae A Dark, Dark Tale- Ruth Brown Not Now Bernard- David McKee Jack And The Beanstalk- Nick Sharratt The Bog Baby- Jeanne Willis Shhh!- Sally Grindley Again- Emily Gravett Funny Bones - Allan Ahlberg The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch - Ronda Armitage Let’s Go to the Zoo - Ellen Weiss Shoe Baby - Joyce Dunbar Traction Man- Mini Grey Whatever Next - Jill Murphy Year 1 Poetry Monster Poems- John Foster (ed) I Had A Little Cat- Collected Poems For Children The Spider And The Fly- Tonya Di Terlizzi Down By The River- Grace Hallwood Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar- John Foster Commotion In The Ocean—Giles Andrea The Carnival Of the Animals- Jack Prelutsky Tasty Poems- Jill Bennet (ed) Machine Poems- Jill Bennet (ed) Whizz Bang Orang-Utan - John Foster
Non-fiction Project Science Collection Usborne’s My First Animal Library My Body Series - Sally Hewitt and Angela Royston A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davis National Geographic Readers Living in the UK - Annabelle Lynch What I like Series - Liz Lennon
Year 2 Fiction and short stories Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp by Philip Pullman Ahemed and the Feather Girl by Jane Ray Akimbo and the Snakes by Alexander McCall Smith Wait for Me- Margaret Mahy Kids Night In- Margaret Mahy Tickled Onions- Morris Gleitzman M Is For Magic- Neil Gaiman The Story Shop- Nikki Gamble Just So Stories- Rudyard Kipling Stories From Our Night Sky- Melanie Drewery Don’t Kiss The Frog- Princess Stories With Attitude- Fiona Waters Animal Tales- Naomi Adler Emily Brown and the Thing - Cressida Cowell Flat Stanley - Jeff Brown The Snow Lady - Shirley Hughes Esio Trot - Roald Dahl Claude Going for Gold - Alex T Smith Daisy and the Trouble with Life—Kes Gray The Sheep-Pig - Dick King-Smith The Cherry Tree Farm - Enid Blyton The Giggler Treatment - Roddy Doyle Zoo Boy - Sophie Thompson Atticus Claw- Jennifer Gray Paddington Bear - Michael Bond Dirty Bertie- Alan Macdonald The Unlikely Outlaws - Philip Ardagh Year 2 Comic/Graphic novels/Picture books Katie Morag’s Island Stories- Mairi Hedderwick Jin And The Beanstalk- Raymond Briggs Seven For A Secret- Laurence Anholt The Green Ship- Quentin Blake Once There Was A Hoodie- Sam McBratney The Fish who Could Wish- Korky Paul Amazing Grace- Mary Hoffman Come Away From The Water Shirley- Shirley Hughes The Day Of Ahmed’s Secret- FP Heide The Monster Bed- Jeanne Willis Six Dinner Sid- Inga Moore The Boy Who Cried Wolf- Tony Ross Dear Greenpeace- Simon James Farmer Duck- Martin Waddell Winnie The Witch- Korky Paul Katie Morag And The Two Grandmothers- Mairi Hedderwick Beegu- Alexis Deacon Dogger- Shirley Hughes Orion and the Dark - Emma Yarlett On Sudden Hill - Linda Sarah This Book Just Ate my Dog! - Richard Byrne I Want my Hat Back - Jon Klassen Oi Frog - Kes Gray Penguin in Peril - Helen Hancocks The Something - Rebecca Cobb Have You Seen Elephant? - David Barrow Year 2 Poetry Please Mrs Butler- Ahlberg The Conjuror’s Rabbit- John Mole The Dragons Are Singing Tonight- Jack Prelutsky Bad Bad Cats- Roger Mcgough Now We Are Six- A A Milne Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats- T S Eliot Plum- Tony Mitton Mustard Custard Grumble Belly And Gravy- Michael Rosen Boo To a Goose- John Mole You Can’t Catch Me- Michael Rosen The Frog who Dreamed She Was An Opera Singer- Jackie Kay Come On Into My Tropical Garden- Grace Nichols
Non-fiction Macmillan’s I Wonder Why… series Our Special World Series - Liz Lennon Ladybird Histories Usborne Look Inside… Series Watt’s Events Series Watt’s Famous People Series Year 3 Fiction and short stories The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame The Secret World of Polly Flint by Helen Cresswell Mister Magnolia by Quentin Blake Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch Storms Cup by Cavanaugh Foyle A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary Misty’s Twilight by Marguerite Henry A Boy Called M.O.U.S.E. by Penny Dolan Aftershock by Bernard Ashley Aquilla by Andrew Norriss Atticus Claw by Jennifer Gray Aunt Severe and the Toy Thieves by Nick Garlick Awful end by Philip Ardagh B.A.S.E Camp by Rob Childs Baker’s Magic by Diane Zahler Bambert’s Books of Missing Stories by Reinhardt Jung Barkbelly by Cat Weatherhill Bearkeeper by Josh Lacey Black Dog by Levi Pinfold Boom! By Mark Haddon Borgon the Axeboy and the Prince's Shadow by Kjartan Poskitt Broken Glass by Sally Grindley Children of Winter by Berlie Doherty Clover Twig by Kaye Umansky The Firework Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman Year 3 Comic/Graphic novels/Picture books George And The Dragon- Chris Wormell Zoo- Anthony Browne Meerkat Mail- Emily The Heart And The Bottle- Oliver Jeffers The Three Wolves And The Big Bad Pig- Eugene Trvizas The Dog Who Could Dig- Jonathan Lang The Minpins- Roald Dahl The Hunter- Paul Geraghty The Selfish Giant- Oscar Wilde – Michael Foreman Robot City Guide To Robots- P Collicut Hilda and the Troll - Luke Pearson Fairytale Comics - Emily Carroll Superhero Origin Stories - John Sazaklis The Day the Crayons Quit & The Day the Crayons Came Home - Drew Daywalt The Lion Inside - Rachel Bright Journey - Aaron Becker A Child of Books - Sam Winston & Oliver Jeffers The Tear Thief - Carol Ann Duffy The Dragon Machine - Helen Ward The Wonder - Faye Hanson Winter’s Child - Angela McAllister Castles - Colin Thompson The Lost Stars - Hannah Cumming The Egg - M.P. Robertson Star Seeker - Theresa Heine Tell Me A Dragon - Jackie Morris Year 3 Poetry Laughter is an Egg- J Agard Meeting midnight- Carol Ann Duffy Revolting Rhymes- Roald Dahl Runny Rabbit- Shel Silverstein Child’s Garden Of Verses- Robert L Stevenson Hot Like Fire- Valerie Bloom The Sun, Dancing- Charles Causely Sky In the Pie- Roger Mcgough Crack another Yolk and Other word Play Poems- John Foster (ed) A Spell of Words- Selected Poems For Children- Elizabeth Jennings
Non-fiction Philip Ardagh’s Shortcut to History Collection Science in Action series“ How it works” Miles Kelly’s 100 Facts… DK Reference Books Year 4 Fiction and short stories The Happy Prince and other stories- Oscar Wilde Hans Anderson’s Fairy Tales The Kingdom Under The Sea- Jan Aiken Whodunnit Detective Stories- Phillip Pulman Simply The Best- Joan Aiken Kibitzers And Fools- Taback Simms Boy- Roald Dahl Leon Stumble’s Book Of Stupid Fairy Tales- Doug Macleod Watch Me- Margaret Mahy More Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark- Alvin Schwartz Tales Of Wisdom And Wonder- Malachy Doyle Winter Sleepwalker And Other Stories- Joan Aiken Perry Angel’s Suitcase - Glenda Millard A Handful of Gold - Joan Aiken Groosham Grange - Anthony Horowitz The Time Travelling Cat - Julia Jarman Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor- Jon Scieszka The Children of Green Knowe - Lucy M. Boston Ice Palace - Robert Swindells Kasper in the Glitter- Philip Ridley The Finding - Nina Bawden Time Travelling with a Hamster - Ross Welford The Name of this Book is Secret - Pseudonymous Bosch The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart The Case of the Missing Moonstone - Jordan Stratford The Great Wave of Tamarind - Nadia Aguiar Year 4 Comic/Graphic novels/Picture books Bravo! Mr Shakespeare - Marcia Williams Who’s Afraid Of the Big Bad Book- Lauren Child The Rascaly cake- Korky Paul The Pied Piper Of Hamlin- Michael Morpurgo Gorilla- Anthony Browne The Flower- John Light Wombat Goes Walkabout- J Baker The Wolves In The Walls- N Gaiman Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain– Verna Aardema Leon and the Place Between - Graham Baker-Smith Clown - Quentin Blake Asterix - René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo Tintin - Hergé Primates - Jim Ottaviani Bone - Jeff Smith Alice in Wonderland - Martin Powell Beauty and the Beast - Luke Feldman Tusk Tusk - David McKee War and Peas - Michael Foreman Cinderella - Charles Perrault and Loek Koopmans A Sailing Boat in the Sky - Quentin Blake Millie’s Marvellous Hat - Satoshi Kitamura Mr Bear and the Bear - Frances Thomas and Ruth Brown Cloud Tea Monkeys - Mai Peet Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore- William Joyce The Book with no Pictures - B.J. Novak Year 4 Poetry Funky Chickens - Benjamin Zephaniah We are Britain- Benjamin Zephaniah What is truth- Ted Hughes Meeting midnight- Carol Ann Duffy Dirty Beasts - Roald Dahl Where the Sidewalk Ends- Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree- Shel Silverstein Kings and Queens - Eleanor Fargeon The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight- Jack Prelutsky Early In the Morning - Charles Causley The Rattle Bag- Ted Hughes & Seamus Heaney (ed) Bad Bad Cats- Roger Mcgough The Mighty Slide - Allan Ahlberg
Non-fiction Animal Science Collection- Nicola Davies The World in Infographics - Jon Richards Horrible Histories Usborne History Year 5 Fiction and short stories Unreal - Paul Jennings Undone - Paul Jennings Feet and Other Stories - Jan Mark Short Stories - Edgar Allan Poe A Tale Of Troy- Lancelyn Roger Green Loop - Brian Caswell The Chronicles of Harris Burdick- Chris Van Allsburg Shakespeare Stories For Younger Readers - E Nesbit Pizza Cake - Morris Gleitzman The Great Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Seed Folks - George Fleischman Under The Weather- Stories About Climate Change - Tony Bradman Varjak Paw - SF Said The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid-Banks The Boggart - Susan Cooper The Silver Sword - Ian Serralier Trillions - Nicholas Fisk Secrets of Glass Mountain - Blair Polly Between the Stars - DM Potter The Iron Woman - Ted Hughes 2 Weeks with the Queen - Morris Gleitzman The Machine Gunners - Robert Westall Cloud Busting- Malorie Blackman The Divide - Elizabeth Kay The Blurred Man - Anthony Horowitz The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd Year 5 Comic/Graphic novels/Picture books True Story Three Little Pigs- Jon Scieszka Voices In The Park- Anthony Browne How To Live Forever- Colin Thompson The Lady Of Shalott- Ill: Charles Keeping The Night Of The Gargoyles- D Weisner The Savage- David Almond Robin Hood- Dorling Kindersley Classics Where The Forest Meets The Sea- J. Baker Oliver Twist & Other Great Dickens Stories - Marcia Williams War Boy- Michael Foreman Mirrormask - Neil Gaiman Sword of Legend - Jonny Zucker The Lion and the Unicorn - Shirley Hughes Archie’s War - Marcia Williams Snow-White - Josephine Poole and Angela Barrett Snow White in New York - Fiona French The Green Ship - Quentin Blake Brother Eagle Sister Sky - Susan Jeffers Wild Child - Jeannie Willis FArTHER - Grahame Baker-Smith Voices in the Park - Anthony Browne A River - Marc Martin Varmints - Helen Ward The Viewer - Gary Crew The Houdini Box - Brian Selznick Footpath Flowers - JonArno Lawson Year 5 Poetry This Poem Doesn’t Rhyme – Gerard Benson Shades Of Green- Ann Harvey Out Of The Dust - Karen Hesse Cloudbusting- Malorie Blackman The Pedalling Man - Russell Hoban Collected Poems For Children - Ted Hughes The New Oxford Book Of Children’s Verse - Neil Phillip What Is The Truth- Ted Hughes Song Of The City- Gareth Owen When I Dance - James Berry Buns for The Elephant - Mike Harding Stopping For death - Carol Ann Duffy Manifold Manor- Philip Gross
Non-fiction Horrible Geography Lonely Planet Kids Series Murderous Maths Series Science Quest Series Year 6 Fiction and short stories Unbearable - Paul Jennings Uncovered - Paul Jennings Finders, Losers - Jan Mark Tales Of Ancient Egypt- Lancelyn Roger Green The Circuit: stories From The Life Of A Migrant Child- Francisco Timinez Rip Van Winkle And Other Stories- Washington Irving Deadly- Paul Jennings, Morris Gleizman Extraordinary cases Of Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Shadow Cage- Philippa Pearce The Thief In The Village And Other Stories- James Berry The Game - David Grimstone A Seven Letter Word- Kim Slater North of Nowhere - Liz Kessler Half a Creature from the Sea - David Almond Midnight is a Place - Joan Aiken His Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman Cosmic - Frank Cottrell Boyce The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne Pig Heart Boy - Malorie Blackman We are Giants - Amber Lee Dodd Charmed Life - Diana Wynne-Jones Lionboy—Zizou Corder The Village by the Sea - Anita Desai Once - Morris Gleitzman Holes - Louis Sachar After Tomorrow- Gillian Cross Year 6 Comic/Graphic novels/Picture books Biggles - W.E. Johns Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson Black & White – David Macaulay King Kong- Anthony Browne Looking For Atlantis- Colin Thompson The Highwayman- Alfred Noyes Tuesday- D Weisner The Snow Goose- Paul Gallico The Rabbits- Shaun Tan Oliver Twist- Dorling Kindersley Classics The Day I Swapped My Dad…- Neil Gaiman The Way Home- Libby Hathorn & G Rogers Artemis Fowl the Graphic Novel - Eoin Colfer Kidnapped - Alan Grant Explorer - Kazu Kibuishi How the Leopard got his Spots: The Graphic Novel - Sean Tulien and Rudyard Kipling Angry Arthur - Hiawyn Oram and Satoshi Kitamura The Tin Forest - Helen Ward and Wayne Anderson The Cats in Krasinski Square - Karen Hesse and Wendy Watson Anne Frank - Josephine Poole and Angela Barrett A Child’s Garden - Michael Foreman Unforgotten- Tohby Riddle The Lonely Tree - Nicholas Halliday The Great Serum Race - Debbie S. Miller Freebird - Saviour Pirotta Black Dog - Levi Pinfold Year 6 Poetry Falling Up- Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein Peacock Pie - Walter de La Mer A March Colt - Ted Hughes A Thought fox - Ted Hughes Season Songs - Ted Hughes Talking Turkeys - Benjamin Zephaniah Oldest Girl In The World- Carol Ann Duffy Oxford Book Of Story Poems - Michael Harrison (ed) Love That Dog - Sharon Creech A Year Full Of Poems - M Harrison The Tree That Time Built- Mary Ann Hoberman The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere - Henry W Longfellow Poetry In the Making - Ted Hughes Does W Trouble You - Gerard Benson Collected Poems For children - Charles Causley
Non-fiction DK’s Computer Coding series The Very Bloody History of Britain - John Farman History and Geography Quest Series