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0-2 Years Recommended Reads I love my mummy Giles Andreae Happy Snappy! Jo Lodge That’s Not My Tiger... Fiona Watt Hop a Little, Jump a Little! Annie Kubler Baby Loves Tiger Claire Dowe The Big Night-Night Book Georgie Birkett Five Little Ducks Francesca Stich and Jemima Lumley Baby’s Very First Outdoors Book Jenny Tyler That’s not my Frog… Fiona Watt The Baby’s Catalogue Janet and Allan Ahlberg Dear Zoo Rod Campbell Chick Ed Vere Is This My Nose? Georgie Birkett Tucking In! Jess Stockham I Love You! David Ellwand & Mike Jolley Lenny has Lunch Ken Wilson-Max Elmer and the Lost Teddy David McKee

Hello Tilly Polly Dunbar Snuggle Up, Sleepy Ones Claire Freedman Up and Down Oliver Jeffers Baby Einstein: Mirror Me J Aigner-Clark Baby’s Very First Touchy-Feely Book S Baggott Clap Hands H Oxenbury Faces J Fordham Peepo! Bunny E Butler Teddy or Train? A Lewis Wally Whale P Adams Dogs Don’t do Ballet A Kemp Little Drivers: Here to Help D Crisp Spot’s Noisy Night E Hill Annie Rose is My Little Sister Shirley Hughes Handa’s Hen Eileen Browne Charlie and Lola Board Books Lauren Child

Popular Books Spot series Eric Hill Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes Mem Fox

That’s Not My … Series Fiona Watt

Noodle Loves series Marion Billet I love my Daddy Giles Andreae

Thomas and Friends Rev. W. Awdry

The Bad-Tempered Ladybird Eric Carle

Jonah’s Incredible Journey Elena Pasquali Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin Jr. Sheep in a Jeep Nancy E. Shaw Bark, George Jules Feiffer In the Tall, Tall Grass Denise Fleming

Silly Suzy Goose Petr Horacek

The Little Dinosaur Michael Foreman If You’re Happy and You Know It! Jan Ormerod and Lindsay Gardiner Babies Ros Asquith, illustrated by Sam Williams Pants Giles Andreae and Nick Sharrat Giddy Up! Let’s Ride! Flora McDonnell My Nose, Your Nose Melanie Walsh Classics The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper and Loren Long

Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein

Three Little Pigs James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle

Tales of Mother Goose Charles Perrault Pat the Bunny Dorothy Kunhardt

The Runaway Bunny Margaret Wise Brown Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney

Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak Mog Series Judith Kerr Love You Forever Robert Munsch, Sheila McGraw Toddle Waddle Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt Meg and Mog (Board) Helen Nicoll Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Doreen Cronin Owl Babies Martin Waddell 2-4 years

Recommended Reads Scruffy Bear and the six white mice Chris Wormell Yuck! That’s not a monster Angela McAllister & Alison Edgson we’re going on a bear hunt Michael Rosen & Helen Oxenbury There Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick The Lion Who Wanted to Love Giles Andreae Oliver who Travelled Far and Wide Mara Bergman Stuck Oliver Jeffers A Bit Lost Chris Haughton Tiny Little Fly Michael Rosen Wolf Won’t Bite! Emily Gravett The Incredible Book Eating Boy Oliver Jeffers A Splendid Friend, Indeed Suzanne Bloom Penguin Polly Dunbar Goodnight Baby Bat! Debi Gliori Henny Penny Vivian French How do you feel? Anthony Browne Lion’s Lunch Fiona Tierney Where’s My Teddy? Jez Alborough

Mini Picture Dictionary S Turhan and S Hagin Lulu Loves Stories A McQuinn

Dogs Don’t Do Ballet A Kemp Full, full, full of Love T Cooke

Lost and Found O Jeffers The Tiger Who Came to Tea J Kerr We All Went on Safari L Krebs Ernest C Rayner

There Are Cats in This Book V Schwartz Don’t let the Pigeon drive the bus Mo Willems Just like my Dad David Melling Goodbye Mog Judith Kerr I Hate School Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross Bunny Cakes Rosemary Wells The Big Big Sea Martin Waddell Popular Books Augustus and His Smile Catherine Rayner Noddy Enid Blyton I Don’t Want to be a Pea Ann Bonwill Press Here Hervé Tullet Ernest Catherine Rayner Giraffes Can’t Dance Giles Andreae What the Ladybird Heard Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks

Faster, Faster! Nice and Slow! Sue Heap There Are No Cats in this Book Viviane Schwarz Puffin Peter Petr Horáček

Rollo and Ruff and the Little Fluffy Bird Mick Imkpen Peppa Pig Various Happy Learners series Jillian Phillips Pirate Pete’s Potty Andrea Pinnington

Monkey And Me Emily Gravett Dora the Explorer series Various

The Very Hungry Caterpillar series Eric Carle Pip and Posy and the Little Puddle A Scheffler

What I Like! G Phinn Book of Nursery Rhymes Ladybird Books Charlie and Lola series L Child

Ketchup on your Cornflakes? N Sharratt Howler Michael Rosen The Great Paper Caper Oliver Jeffers My Uncle is a Hunkle Says Clarice Lauren Child I am too Absolutely Small for School Lauren Child Winnie the Witch Korky Paul and Valerie Thomas Also: Picture Books by Julia Donaldson (Stick Man, Room on the Broom, The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Zog etc.) Picture Books by Shirley Hughes (Annie Rose is my Little Sister, Abel’s Moon, Alfie etc.) Classics The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Fox in Socks Dr. Seuss The Little Mermaid Michael Teitelbaum

Dumbo Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl Bambi Felix Salten Pinocchio Carlo Collodi Green Eggs & Ham Dr. Seuss

Goldilocks and the Three Bears Robert Southey The Owl and the Pussycat Edward Lear The Little Red Hen Unknown

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck Beatrix Potter The Snowman Raymond Briggs

The Gingerbread Man Unknown The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams Winnie the Pooh AA Milne A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond 4-7 years Recommended Reads The Tiger Who Came To Tea Judith Kerr A Piece Of Cake Jill Murphy Boom Chicka Boom Liz Weir Bunny My Honey Anita Jeram Can’t You Sleep Little Bear? Martin Waddell Clap Hands Helen Oxenbury Dear Zoo Rod Campbell Elmer and the Lost Teddy by David McKee Farmer Duck Martin Waddell I Love My Mummy Giles Andreae I’ll Always love You Hans Wilhelm Owl Babies Martin Waddell That’s Not my Tiger… Fiona Watt (There are multiple titles in this series) The Baby’s Catalogue Janet and Allan Ahlberg The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf Jon Scieszka Up And Down Oliver Jeffers Zog Julia Donaldson The Jolly Postman Janet and Allan Ahlberg Aliens Love Underpants Claire Freedman The Lonely Beast Chris Judge The Cats in Krasinski Square Karen Hesse The Heart and the Bottle Oliver Jeffers Her Mother’s Face Roddy Doyle Cats Ahoy! Peter Bently Otto the Book Bear Katie Cleminson A Place to Call Home Alexis Deacon Dog Loves Books Louise Yates

One Fish Smart Chris Wormell On the Road with Mavis and Marge Niamh Sharkey Sniffer and Naughty Nancy Roger Abbott

Football Academy: Boys United Tom Palmer Mr. Cool Jacqueline Wilson

The Owl Who Was Afraid of theDdark Jill Tomlinson

The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth Eoin Colfer

But Where Completely are we? L Child We all went on safari L Krebs 30 Yummy Things to cook C Atkinson

Dressing Up Fairies N Lambert Harry and Hopper M Wild Horrid Henry Rocks F Simon Penguin Polly Dunbar Romans Vs Dinosaurs on Mars T Wessen You Choose P Goodhart and N Sharratt

The Jumble Book T Stevens (Editor) We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Michael Rosen Orange Pear Apple Bear Emily Gravett The World Came To My Place Today Jo Readman Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Flat Stanley Jeff Brown George Speaks Dick King-Smith The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog Jeremy Strong Popular Books The Twin Giants Dick King-Smith Egg Drop Mini Grey Rainbow Magic series Daisy Meadows Mr. Men Series Roger Hargreaves The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson Hey Presto! Nadia Shireen The Giggler Treatment Roddy Doyle Rover Saves Christmas Roddy Doyle Meanwhile Adventures Roddy Doyle

Jonathan and Martha Petr Horacek Where’s Spot Eric Hill (and other Spot books by the same author) No! Martha Altes The Pirates Next Door Jonny Duddle Jack and the Flum Flum Tree Julia Donaldson Good Little Wolf Nadia Shireen Guji Guji Chih-Yuan Chen

Oliver Who Was Small but Mighty Mara Bergman Box of Tricks Katie Cleminson

The Great Paper Caper Oliver Jeffers

Winnie the Witch Valerie Thomas Dinosaurs Love Underpants Claire Freedman

Don’t Worry Douglas David Melling

The Big Sticky Bun Vivian French

The Lorax Dr. Seuss My Granny is a Pirate Val McDermid

Room on the Broom Julia Donaldson

The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr Commotion in the Ocean Giles Andreae Dirty Bertie series Alan McDonald

The Legend of Spud Murphy Eoin Colfer

The Curious Kitten Lucy Daniels

Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid Megan McDonald Judy Moody books Megan McDonald

Witch Baby and Me Debi Gliori

And then there were 10 Egmont Books Iggy and Me J Valentine The Playful Puppy L Daniels Think of an Eel K Wallace Where’s Wally: Fantastic Journey M Handford Horse M Doyle and A Rinaldi Little Rabbit Foo Foo M Rosen Dino Dinners A Manning How to Draw Animals F Watt

Eat Your Peas K Gray Mixed up Fairy Tales H Robinson

See You Later, Alligator! A Kubler Prehistoric Actual Size S Jenkins Traction Man is Here M Grey A Footballer Called Flip I Whybrow Bats A John L’Hommedieu

Even Stevens F.C. M Rosen

Gorilla City C Small The Little Dinosaur Michael Foreman In the Tall, Tall Grass Denise Fleming Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin Jr. The Bad-Tempered Ladybird Eric Carle I love my Daddy Giles Andreae Rumble in the Jungle Giles Andreae The Cat in The Hat Dr. Seuss Horrid Henry series Francesca Simon Chimp and Zee Laurence Anholt My Wobbly Tooth Must Not Ever Never Fall Out Lauren Child Diary Of A Killer Cat Anne Fine My Brother Bernadette Jacqueline Wilson The Legend of Spud Murphy Eoin Colfer The Worst Witch series Jill Murphy Classics Sleeping Beauty Unknown 101 Dalmatians Dodie Smith Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne

The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams Bianco

The Gingerbread Man Unknown Little Red Riding Hood Unknown

Thumbelina Hans Christian Andersen The Elves and the Shoemaker Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Where the Wild Things Maurice Sendak Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren The Story of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting

Curious George H. A. Rey

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Fantastic Mr Fox Roald Dahl The Iron Man Ted Hughes The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark Jill Tomlinson Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Helen Oxenbury Oi! Get off our Train John Burningham Dogger Shirley Hughes An Evening at Alfies (and other titles in the Alfie series) Matilda Roald Dahl Stranger Danger Anne Fine Bill’s New Frock Anne Fine The Baby’s Catalogue Allan Ahlberg Dear Zoo Rod Campbell Each Peach Pear Plum Allan Ahlberg Rosie’s Walk Pat Hutchins The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson The Polar Express Chris Van Allsburg The Tale Of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Esio Trot Roald Dahl The Twits Roald Dahl Josie Smith books Magdalen Nabb

7-9 years Recommended Reads Best Friends Jacqueline Wilson

The Legend of the Worst Boy in the World Eoin Colfer

The Diary of a Killer Cat Anne Fine

The Butterfly Lion Michael Morpurgo

Animals don’t have ghosts Siobhan Parkinson

Beware! Killer Tomatoes Jeremy Strong

Highway Robbery Kate Thompson Farther Grahame Baker-Smith

Snakes’ Elbows Deirdre Madden Fierce Milly Marilyn McLaughlin It’s a Book Lane Smith Little Red Hood Marjolaine Leray

Nature Adventures Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom The Scarecrow and his Servant Philip Pullman

The evil hairdo Oisín McGann

Animals in School Julia Donaldson

The Diary of a Killer Cat Anne Fine Actual Size S Jenkins

Create Your Own Superhero Stories Buster Books

How-To Handbook Egmont Books Lizzy Zipmouth J Wilson The Giggler Treatment Roddy Doyle Rover Saves Christmas Roddy Doyle The Meanwhile Adventures Roddy Doyle Popular Books A Boy and a Bear in a Boat Dave Shelton Special Powers Mary Hoffman Under the hawthorn tree Marita Conlon-McKenna Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl Little Manfred Michael Morpurgo The Abominables Eva Ibboston

A Little, Aloud, for Children Michael Morpurgo

Do Igloos Have Loos? Mitchell Symons

The Official Countdown to the London 2012 Games Simon Hart

Letters from an Alien Schoolboy Ros Asquith

The Parade KP Kojo One Dog and His Boy Eva Ibbotson Big Day Out Jacqueline Wilson

See Inside Your Body Katie Daynes and Colin King Matilda Roald Dahl Magicalamity Kate Saunders

Laugh Your Socks Off Even More Joke Book J Strong A Mouse Called Wolf Dick King-Smith Horse Pie Dick King-Smith George Speaks Dick King-Smith How to write really badly Anne Fine

The Dreaming Tree Eithne Massey The Little Witch Who Can’t Spell Marie Burlington Demon from the Deep End James Allison

Her Mother’s Face Roddy Doyle Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl Esio Trot Roald Dahl Gangsta Granny David Walliams Mr. Stink David Walliams Bill’s New Frock Anne Fine Series books Horrid Henry series Francesca Simon Dirty Bertie series Alan Macdonald Angela Nicely series Alan Macdonald Alfie Green series Joe O’Brien The Magic Key series Roderick Hunt Beast Quest series Adam Blade Sea Quest series Adam Blade Captain Underpants series Dav Pilkey Stink series Megan McDonald Judy Moody series Megan McDonald Elf Girl and Raven Boy series Marcus Sedgwick Adventure Island series Helen Moss Kitty and Friends series Various Maisie Hitchens series Holly Webb Mr. Gum series Andy Stanton Magic Molly series Holly Webb Triplets series Holly Webb Lily series Holly Webb Diary of a Wimpy Kid series Jeff Kinney My Magical Pony series Jenny Oldfield Alice series Judi Curtin Penny Dreadful series Joanna Nadin Moshi Monsters series various Hundred-mile-an-hour dog series Jeremy Strong Big Nate series Lincoln Peirce Geronimo Stilton series Indie Kidd series Karen McCombie Horrible History series Terry Deary Astrosaurs series Steve Cole Animal Ark series Lucy Daniels Jamie & Angus series Anne Fine Time Hunters series Chris Blake Battersea Dogs & Cats Home series various Oliver Moon series Sue Mongredien Tom Gates series Liz Pichon Worst Witch series Jill Murphy St. Clare’s series Enid Blyton Malory Towers series Enid Blyton Famous Five series Enid Blyton Secret Seven series Enid Blyton The Five Find-Outers series Enid Blyton Mr. Majeika series Humphrey Carpenter My Story (historical events) series various Doctor Proctor series Jo Nesbo My Naughty Little Sister series Dorothy Edwards Milly-Molly-Mandy series Joyce Lancaster Brisley Tumtum and Nutmeg series Emily Bearn Classics Charlotte’s Web E.B White The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll A little princess Frances Hodgson Burnett Beauty and the Beast Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve Black Beauty Anna Sewell Pinocchio Carlo Collodi

Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe The Railway Children E. Nesbit The Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum

What Katy Did Susan Coolidge

The Wind In The Willows Kenneth Grahame

Charlotte’s Web E B White Aesop’s Fables Aesop

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter Grimm’s Fairy Tales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis The family from one end street Eve Garnett Carrie’s War Nina Bawden The Indian in the Cupboard Lynne Reid Banks The Children of Green Knowe Lucy Boston Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren The Borrowers Mary Norton Five Children and It E. Nesbit The Silver Sword Ian Serraillier War Horse Michael Morpugo Paddington Bear Michael Bond Little Old Mrs. Pepperpot Alf Proysen 10-12 years Recommended Reads The brilliant world of Tom Gates Liz Pichon Skulduggery Pleasant Derek Landy Shadow Michael Morpurgo harry potter and the philosopher’s Stone J.K. Rowling A Monster Calls Patrick Ness

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyce Airman Eoin Colfer

Under the Hawthorn Tree Marita Conlon-McKenna The BFG Roald Dahl

The London Eye Mystery Siobhan Dowd Then Morris Gleitzman The Guns of Easter Gerard Whelan Bloodline Katy Moran

Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox Eoin Colfer The Considine Curse Gareth P. Jones A Year Without Autumn Liz Kessler

Breaking Dawn Stephanie Meyer

The Butterfly Heart Paula Leyden Will Gallows and the snake-bellied troll Derek Keilty

Dancing in the Dark Peter Prendergast

The Real Rebecca Anna Carey The Boy in the Dress David Walliams The Thing With Finn Tom Kelly

Moon Pie Simon Mason Skeleton Key Anthony Horowitz

Little Croker Joe O’Brien Katie’s War Aubrey Flegg

Bad Dreams Anne Fine My name is Mina David Almond Small Change for Stuart Lissa Evans Northern Lights Philip Pullman House of Secrets Chris Columbus The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman TimeRiders Alex Scarrow The Set-Up Sophie McKenzie The Finisher David Baldacci Popular Books A Greyhound of a Girl Roddy Doyle Bruised Siobhán Parkinson Dead Hairy Debbie Thomas

Harry Potter series J.K. Rowling Alice and Megan series Judi Curtin Eva’s Journey Judi Curtin The Story of Tracy Beaker Jacqueline Wilson Double Act Jacqueline Wilson Horrible Histories series Terry Deary The Mystery of Wickworth Manor Elen Caldecott Grace Morris Gleitzman Frozen in Time Ali Sparkes Dead Man’s Cove Lauren St. John Shadow Forest Matt Haig Sky Hawk Gill Lewis Billionaire Boy David Walliams Gangsta Granny David Walliams

The World of Norm series Jonathan Meres

Alex Rider Series Anthony Horowitz The Saga of Darren Shan Collection Darren Shan The Roman Mysteries Caroline Lawrence Order of Darkness collection Philippa Gregory Young Sherlock Holmes Andrew Lane Throne of Glass series Sarah J Maas The Inheritance Cycle collection Christopher Paolini Cat Royal series Julia Golding Darcie Lock series Julia Golding Young Knights series Julia Golding Classics The lion, the witch and the wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia) C.S. Lewis Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl Anne Frank Five got into Trouble Enid Blyton Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift The Swiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss

The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Peter Pan J.M. Barrie Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Little Women Louisa May Alcott King Arthur And His Knights Of The Round Table Roger Lancelyn Green Journey To The Centre Of The Earth Jules Verne Heidi Johanna Spyri Black Beauty Anna Sewell Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens

A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wizard Of Oz L Frank Baum The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett

Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian Around the World in 80 Days Jules Verne

David Copperfield Charles Dickens The Happy Prince and Other Tales Oscar Wilde