Recommended Reading List Year 5 & Year 6 Contemporary Fiction

 Picture book This book brings together one of the  Exceptional illustrations most popular and powerful of all fairy which provoke tales and one of the world's greatest meaningful discussions picture book artists, Hans Christian about authorial intent Andersen Award-winner Anthony  Recommended by Aidan Browne. Hansel and Gretel Chambers- excellent Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm resource for Book Talk Anthony Browne  Compare to ‘The Tunnel’

A young boy, bewitched by his father’s unrelenting passion to fly; a desperate  Picture book craving that absorbs his every waking  Complex themes around minute, finds himself entranced by the absence/presence, grief, dream. When his father goes to war and ambitions and dreams. does not return it seems the spell is  We also recommend broken. Much later, the boy, now a ‘Leon and the Place FarTHER young man finds himself drawn once Between’ by the same Graham Baker-Smith more to his fathers drawings and failed author- for all ages experiments. Finally able to make his fathers dream a reality he flies.

 Picture book Part love story, part crime caper, The  Full of wit and humour Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon is  Crime/adventure genre the rags-to-riches and back again tale of  Developed narrative of the most dazzling crockery-cutlery duo the nursery rhyme; (The of all time. Reminiscent of Bonnie & Dish ran away with the Clyde. Spoon) The Adventures of The Dish and  Plentiful opportunities The Spoon for writing outcomes Mini Grey

What drives so many to leave  Wordless picture everything behind and journey alone to book/graphic novel a mysterious country, a place without  Futuristic sci-fi setting family or friends, where everything is  Deals with themes of nameless and the future is unknown? migration, isolation, This silent graphic novel is the story of acceptance and family every migrant, every refugee, every  Six chapters displaced person, and a tribute to all  SIL Reading Reasoning The Arrival those who have made the journey. Question Pack available Shaun Tan

Every night, tiny stars appear out of the  Part picture book, part darkness in Sandy’s bedroom. She graphic novel catches them and creates wonderful  Focuses on the nature of creatures to play with until she falls creativity and inspiration asleep, and in the morning brings them  Stunning almost manga- esque illustration style back to life in the whimsical drawings could inspire exciting that cover her room. One day, Morpie, a written pieces mysterious pale girl, appears at school.  Some pupils may find the And she knows all about Sandy’s fantasy sequences Nightlights drawings… frightening- read the text Lorena Alvarez before using with a whole class  Recommended by Jenny Holder, LLP

 Picture book- A brother and sister who don’t get exceptional, thoughtful along. One day they discover the tunnel. illustrations The boy goes through it at once,  Compare to ‘Hansel & dismissing his sister's fears. When he Gretel’ by the same doesn't return, his sister has to pluck up author/illustrator the courage to go through the tunnel  Good for inference too. She finds her brother in a The Tunnel  Explores themes of fear, mysterious forest where he has been Anthony Browne courage and sibling turned to stone... rivalry.

Colin Thompson's books are mystical  Picture book and complex, they will appeal to  Great for children and adults alike and demand to inference/interpretation be returned to as there is always a new  Mystical and complex image to see . . . something more to  Rich illustrations with catch the eye. Peter and his family live unexpected surprises among the Quinces in the cookery  Meaningful moral section of a mystical library, and at  Could also read ‘The night, when the library comes to life, How To Live Forever Second Forever (How to Peter ventures out of his home to find a Colin Thompson Live Forever Trilogy)’ missing volume: How To Live Forever.

In a tiny corner of Brittany, one small  Classic comic/graphic village of indomitable Gauls hold out novel against the almighty, all-conquering  Great for reading areas Romans. The Gauls are mighty fighters, and history themed collections but none more so than Asterix, a  First in a series so good for dauntless and cunning warrior who gets hooking readers for his tremendous strength from drinking further reading a magic potion supplied to him by Druid  Puns, visual jokes and Getafix. Together with his companion funny anachronisms would Asterix the Gaul Obelix, he embarks on a series of mean that an extract could Renne Goscinny adventures, beginning with rescuing be an interesting addition Albert Uderzo Getaflix when he is captured by the to guided reading/whole Romans. class reading focus on Recommended by Jenny Holder, LLP humour

What would happen if we lost the  Picture book happy endings to stories? A fantastic  Rich language & and magical tale about what happens illustrations when, one night, a wicked witch steals  Great for both shared the happy endings to bedtime stories. It and guided reading is up to Jub, the keeper of the happy  Has the feel of a endings, to save the day and ensure modern day fairy tale The Lost Happy Endings sweet dreams everywhere in this lyrical  Language and Carol Ann Duffy story about storytelling. In the tradition vocabulary exploration Jane Ray of classic fairy tales for children.

Harry Potter has never even heard of  Narrative Hogwarts when the letters start  Book 1 of 8 so dropping on the doormat at number encourages further four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green reading. ink on yellowish parchment with a  Great for character purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated study and comparison by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on within & across books Harry's eleventh birthday, a great  Investigate character beetle-eyed giant of a man called names using Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some morphology/etymology Stone astonishing news: Harry Potter is a  Film version available to J.K. Rowling wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts compare/contrast School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!

Percy was just an average kid, playing  Narrative basketball, skate boarding etc, until he  Book 1 of 5 so accidentally vaporizes his maths encourages further teacher. This results in him battling reading monsters and generally trying to stay  Set in modern day alive. America involving Half boy. Half God. ALL Hero. authentic Greek gods.  Film version available to

compare/contrast Percy Jackson And The Lightning  Thief Illustrated edition also Ric Riordan available

This is the first book of the Quint Saga –  Good to challenge more first trilogy in The Edge Chronicles, the able readers internationally best-selling fantasy  Set in a fantasy world- series, which has featured on the UK the Edge- populated by and the New York Times best-seller lists goblins, trolls, trogs, and sold more than 3 million copies. telepathic waifs and There are now 13 titles and four more trilogies in the series, but each book is a  Deals with many themes The Edge Chronicles- The Curse of stand-alone adventure which can be throughout the Gloamglozer read in any order.  Encourages further Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell reading

When Lesley is sent to Venice to  A superb short read (95 interview world-renowned violinist pages including Paulo Levi on his fiftieth birthday, she illustrations) cannot believe her luck. She is told that  Excellent for developing she can ask him anything at all – except empathy the Mozart question. But it is Paulo  Link to the real-life himself who decides that the time has story/biography of Anita come for the truth to be told. And so Lasker Wallfisch (info follows the story of his parents in a and videos online) The Mozart Question Jewish concentration camp. As the story  SIL Reading Reasoning Michael Morpurgo unfolds, the journalist begins to Question Pack available understand the full horror of war – and  Compare to books on a how one group of musicians survived similar theme using the only weapon they had.

Fourteen-year-old Alex is forcibly  Spy adventure- full of recruited into MI6. Armed with secret high speed chases and gadgets, he is sent to investigate Herod enemy gunfire Sayle, a man who is offering state-of-  Lots of cliff hangers- so the-art Stormbreaker computers to great for teaching every school in the country. But the devices for suspense teenage spy soon finds himself in mortal  Book 1 of 9 so danger. The government has given him encourages further the technology, but only he can provide Stormbreaker reading the courage. Should he fail, every child Anthony Horowitz  Film of the book in England will be murdered in cold available blood.  Graphic novel available

 Set in Liverpool- written by local author  Slim novel (112 pages) Two refugee brothers from Mongolia  Themes of immigration, are determined to fit in with their survival, difference and Liverpool schoolmates. Their new friend acceptance and guide, Julie, recollects a special  interesting layout friendship that was abruptly ended. including notebook The Unforgotten Coat paper and polaroid Frank Cottrell Boyce pictures  First person narrative  Lots of humour

 Narrative A castaway adventure.  Themes of exploration, Washed up on an island in the Pacific, loss, hope, love and Michael struggles to survive on his own. forgiveness With no food and no water, he curls up  Adventure story to die. When he wakes, there is a plate  Link the events to the beside him of fish, of fruit, and a bowl many shipwrecks on our of fresh water. He is not alone . . . Kensuke’s Kingdom North-West coast

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Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-  Narrative year-old. He does ordinary things. He  Each chapter is told feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids from different don't make other ordinary kids run viewpoints- Great for away screaming in playgrounds. exploring points of view Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever (Rashamon effect). they go.  Lots of powerful themes Born with a terrible facial abnormality, to identify including Auggie has been home-schooled by his difference, acceptance parents his whole life. Now, for the first Wonder and courage time, he's being sent to a real school - R.J. Palacio  SIL Reading Reasoning and he's dreading it. All he wants is to Question Pack available be accepted - but can he convince his  Sequel available- new classmates that he's just like them, ‘Auggie and Me’ underneath it all?

Barney Willow's life couldn't get any  Humour mixed with the worse. He's weedy, with sticky-out ears. macabre Horrible Gavin Needle loves tormenting  Good for discussing him - Barney has no idea why. And narrative voice as the headteacher-from-hell Miss Whipmire narrator speaks directly seems determined to make every to the reader at certain second of Barney's existence a points complete misery! Worst of all, Dad has  Themes of loss, been missing for almost a year, and overcoming challenges, there's no sign of him ever coming identity and self-esteem To be a Cat home. Barney just wants to escape. To  Compare with ‘They All Matt Haig find another life. To be a cat, for Saw A Cat’ by Brendan

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Tick, tock, tick tock! Some stories are  Interesting structure- like that. Once you’ve wound them up, commentary fact style nothing will stop them… boxes and a narrative A tormented apprentice clock-maker, a within a narrative deadly mechanical knight…Wind up  Good for discussing how these characters, fit them into a story language contributes to on a cold winter’s evening and suddenly meaning & for effect life and the story begin to merge in a  Scary Clockwork peculiarly macabre-and unstoppable- Philip Pullman way.

Lily’s life is in mortal peril. Her father is  Set in Victorian England missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her  Good for discussing how through the shadows. What could they language contributes to want from her? With her friends – Robert, meaning & for effect the clockmaker’s son, and Malkin, her  Compare mechanical fox – Lily is plunged into a content/themes to murky and menacing world. Too soon Lily ‘Clockwork’ and ‘Hugo realises that those she holds dear may be Cabret’ the very ones to break her heart... Cogheart Murder, mayhem and mystery meet in  Sequel- ‘Moonlocket’-is Peter Bunzl this gripping Victorian adventure. just as good

Twins Arthur and Maudie receive word in  An engaging, fun and Lontown that their famous explorer exciting steampunk father died in a failed attempt to reach adventure narrative South Polaris. Not only that, but he has which takes place been accused of trying to steal fuel from aboard a wonderful sky- his competitors before he died! The twins ship don't believe the news, and they answer  Themes include loss, an ad to help crew a new exploration determination, attempt in the hope of learning the truth exploration and family and salvaging their family's reputation. As Brightstorm the winged ship Aurora sets sail, the twins  Links well to ‘Cogheart’ Vashti Hardy must keep their wits about them and prove themselves worthy of the rest of the crew. But will Arthur and Maudie find the answers they seek?

Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award  Set up amongst the and the Waterstones Children's Book chimney tops in Paris Prize, and shortlisted for the CILIP  Fantasy/historical Carnegie Medal. Everyone thinks that fiction Sophie is an orphan. Found floating in a  Strong imagery cello case and swaddled in a Beethoven throughout score, she is the only recorded female  Lovely video here to survivor of a shipwreck on the English share with the children Channel. But Sophie remembers seeing of Rundell talking about Roof Toppers her mother wave for help... her book and where her Katherine Rundell ideas came from

 A good stimulus for An author and illustrator named Harris encouraging Burdick leaves fourteen images imaginative writing complete with captions at the office of  Unusual images an editor, with the promise that, should supported by thought- the editor choose to purchase them, he provoking captions will return with the complete stories for capture the each image. Burdick was never seen imagination again, and the samples are all that  Rich in mystery and The Mysteries of Harris Burdick remain of his supposed books. Readers suspense Chris Van Allsburg are challenged to imagine their own  Short stories version stories based on the images in the book. available

Since her father left Lebanon to find  Published in 2006 but work and her mother tragically died in a still feels very current shell attack, ten-year-old Ayesha has  The main character is been living in the bomb-ravaged city of faced with serious Beirut with her granny and her two dilemmas at different younger brothers. The city has been points in the story torn in half by civil war and a desolate,  Strong/deep themes dangerous no man's land divides the throughout Oranges in No Man’s Land two sides. Only militiamen and tanks  Feels like a snap-shot of Elizabeth Laird dare enter this deadly zone, but when a bigger story Granny falls desperately ill, Ayesha sets  SIL Reading Reasoning off on a terrifying journey to reach a Question Pack available doctor living in enemy territory. 6

When they first arrived, they came  Sci-fi narrative set in quietly and stealthily as if they tip-toed London into the world when we were all looking  Strong themes but dealt the other way. Ade loves living at the with sensitively- top of a tower block. From his window, essential to read ahead he feels like he can see the whole world  Compare opening stretching out beneath him. But one chapter with ‘Varmints’ day, other tower blocks on the estate by Helen Ward start falling down around them and  Contrast with ‘The Boy In The Tower strange, menacing plants begin to Greenling’ by Levi Polly Ho-Yen appear. Now their tower isn’t safe Pinfold anymore. Ade and his mum are trapped and there’s no way out . . .

A shooting star crashes to earth and  Links with a study on changes Elliot's life forever. The star is the Ancient Greeks Virgo - a young Zodiac goddess on a  Exciting adventure mission. When the pair accidentally  Humorous but deals unleash the wicked death daemon with serious theme of Thanatos, they turn to the old Olympian dementia gods for help. But after centuries of  1 out of 4 so encourages cushy retirement on earth, are Zeus and Who Let the Gods Out? further reading his crew up to the task? Maz Evans

Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of  Great for studying bad luck, so when a miscarriage of narrative justice sends him to Camp Green Lake structure/subplots Juvenile Detention Centre (which isn't including flashback green and doesn't have a lake) he is not  Film of the book surprised. Every day he and the other available inmates are told to dig a hole, five foot  SIL ‘Reading Reasoning wide by five foot deep, reporting Question Pack’ available Holes anything they find. The evil warden Louis Sachar claims that it is character building, but this is a lie and Stanley must dig up the truth.

 Bright, appealing For most of her twelve years, Astrid has graphic novel about done everything with her best friend friendship and changes Nicole. But after Astrid falls in love with  Deals with the idea of roller derby and signs up for derby transitions so would be camp, Nicole decides to go to dance great for Y6s thinking camp instead. And so begins the most about secondary school difficult summer of Astrid's life as she A great addition to Rollergirl struggles to keep up with the older girls reading corners Victoria Jamieson at camp, hang on to the friend she feels  Recommended by Jenny slipping away, and cautiously embark on Holder, LLP a new friendship…

When Colin and Susan are pursued by  Would make a eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, challenging but great they are saved by the Wizard. He takes whole-class read them into the caves of Fundindelve,  Mythological basis (links where he watches over the enchanted to Norse/Welsh sleep of one hundred and forty knights. mythology) would make But the heart of the magic that binds for great them – Firefrost, also known as the compare/contrast work Weirdstone of Brisingamen – has been with other fantasy texts lost. The Wizard has been searching for  First in a series so great The Weirdstone of Brisingamen the stone for more than 100 years, but for hooking readers Alan Garner the forces of evil are closing in…  Recommended by Jenny Holder, LLP

In the underground city of Caverna there are wines that can remove  Fantasy narrative memories and perfumes that convince  A long read- needs you to trust the wearer. The people of stamina-good to Caverna are more ordinary, but for one challenge the able thing: their faces are as blank as reader untouched snow. Expressions must be  Very gripping learned, and only the famous  Powerful themes Facesmiths can teach a person to show joy, despair or fear - at a price. Into this dark and distrustful world comes A Face Like Glass Neverfell, a little girl with no memory of Frances Hardinge her past and a face so terrifying to those around her that she must wear a mask at all times.

When a move to a new house coincides  Won the Carnegie with his baby sister's illness, Michael's Medal and the world seems suddenly lonely and Whitbread Children's uncertain. Then, one Sunday afternoon, Book Award he stumbles into the old, ramshackle  Great to just simply garage of his new home, and finds read or to use for a unit something magical. A strange creature - of work part owl, part angel, a being who needs  Film of the book Michael's help if he is to survive. With his new friend Mina, Michael nourishes  Will probably end up Skellig back to health, while his baby being regarded as a Skellig sister languishes in the hospital. But classic David Almond Skellig is far more than he at first appears. . .

Mr Barleycorn picks a green baby growing  Picture book with on his land, letting loose the incredible stunning detail power of nature. When melons grow in  Poetic, enthralling the kitchen and apples sprout out of their vocabulary television, Mrs Barleycorn says the  Rhyming text Greenling has to go. But the bounty and  Contrast with ‘Boy in beauty of nature has a strange power - The Greenling the Tower’ Levi Pinfold the power to bring a whole community together.

 Picture book Once, the only sounds to be heard were  Exceptional, evocative the buzzing of bees in the grass, the art work throughout murmuring of moles in the earth, and  Opportunities for both the song of birds in the sky. These emotive and formal warmed the hearts of those who cared writing to listen - until the others came to fill  Environmental themes the sky with a cacophony of noise. can be explored

Varmints  Compare with chapter 1 Helen Ward of ‘Boy in the Tower’ by Polly Ho Yen

Forbidden to leave her island, Isabella  Narrative dreams of the faraway lands her  Themes include cartographer father once mapped. friendship, myths and When her friend disappears, she magic volunteers to guide the search. The  We also recommend the world beyond the walls is a monster- equally profound ‘Island filled wasteland - and beneath the dry at the End of rivers and smoking mountains, a fire Everything’ and ‘Way demon is stirring from its sleep. Soon, The Girl of Ink and Stars Past Winter’ by the following her map, her heart and an Kiran Millwood Hargrave same author ancient myth, Isabella discovers the

true end of her journey: to save the

island itself.

Christopher is 'Proper': a real boy with a  Narrative real soul, orphaned in a fire. He works  Science-fiction mixed for an engineer, a maker of the with fairy tale eccentric, loyal and totally individual  Themes around mechanicals who are Christopher's best courage, friendship and friends. But after a devastating finding your own accident, a secret is revealed and identity Christopher's world is changed for ever  Links to Pinocchio, the ... What follows is a remarkable Wizard of Oz and Tin adventure, as Christopher discovers Cogheart Padraig Kenny who he really is, and what it means to be human.

Budi's plan is simple. He's going to be a  Narrative star. Budi's going to play for the  Great for vocabulary greatest team on earth, instead of development sweating over each stitch he sews, each  Set in Indonesia- football boot he makes. But one unlucky explores child labour kick brings Budi's world crashing down.  Strong themes around Now he owes the Dragon, the most equality, poverty, dangerous man in Jakarta. Soon it isn't injustice only Budi's dreams at stake, but his life.  SIL Reading Reasoning Kick A story about dreaming big, about hope pack available Mitch Johnson and heroes, and never letting anything stand in your way.

Rose Blanche was the name of a group  Picture book of young German citizens who, at their  Detailed, poignant peril, protested against the war. Like imagery of aspects of them, our protagonist, Rose, observes war in Germany during all the changes going on around her WWII which others choose to ignore. She  Element of mystery- we watches as the streets of her small don’t know what German town fill with soldiers. One day happens to the main she sees a little boy escaping from the character. Superb back of a truck, only to be captured by writing opportunity. Rose Blanche the mayor and shoved back into it. Rose  Worth investigating the Ian McEwan and Roberto Innocenti follows the truck to a desolate place out protest group ‘Rose of town, where she discovers many Blanche’ to discover other children, staring hungrily from significance of name. behind an electric barbed wire fence.

The moving story of the extraordinary  Narrative friendship between a boy and his fox  Beautifully illustrated by and their epic journey to be reunited. multi-award winner, Jon Pax was only a kit when his family was Klassen. killed and he was rescued by ‘his boy’,  Touching story about Peter. Now the country is at war and the relationship when his father enlists, Peter has no between boy and choice but to move in with his animal

Pax grandfather. Far worse than leaving  Explore how foxes are Sara Pennypacker home is the fact that he has to leave presented in other Pax behind. stories. Compare.

Only the person who gave us Tuesday  Wordless picture book could have devised this fantastic  Sci-fi Adventure Caldecott Honor-winning tale, which  Begins with a school trip begins with a school trip to the Empire to Empire State State Building. There, a boy on a school Building- develops into s trip makes friends with a mischievous fantasy adventure in the little cloud, who whisks him away to the clouds Cloud Dispatch Center for Sector. The  Funny and touching

Sector 7 clouds are bored with their everyday  Unusual friendship David Weisner shapes, so the boy obligingly starts to  Great for developing sketch some new ones. . . . vocabulary

11.32am. Ted and his sister Kat watch  Narrative- mystery their cousin Salim get on board the  An empowering book London Eye. which tackles Autism 12.02am. The pod lands and the doors  Compare/contrast with open. Everyone exits - everyone but ‘The Goldfish Boy’ by Salim. Even the police are baffled - so Lisa Thompson it's up to Ted, whose brain runs on its  Also read ‘The own unique operating system, to solve Guggenheim Mystery’ London Eye Mystery this mystery and find Salim. Teaming up concept created by Siobhan Dowd with Kat, Ted follows a trail of clues Siobhan Dowd, written across London - while time ticks by Robin Stevens dangerously by...

From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred  Narrative- adventure watches as the mysteries of the Amazon  Set in the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always rainforest dreamed of becoming an explorer. If  Wonderful descriptions only he could land and look about him. of the setting As the plane crashes into the canopy,  Themes including Fred is suddenly left without a choice. survival He and the three other children may be  Link opening chapter The Explorer alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed with similar events in Katherine Rundell place. With no hope of rescue, the ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’. chance of getting home feels impossibly small.

There used to be an empty chair at the  Narrative back of my class, but now a new boy  Told with heart and called Ahmet is sitting in it. He's nine humour, this is a child's years old (just like me), but he's very perspective on the strange. He never talks and never smiles refugee crisis, and doesn't like sweets. But then I highlighting the learned the truth: Ahmet really isn't importance of very strange at all. He's a refugee who's friendship and kindness. run away from a War. A real one. With  Develops empathy bombs and fires and bullies that hurt  Raises awareness people. And the more I find out about  Jam-packed with The Boy at the Back of the Class him, the more I want to help. themes to explore with Onjali Rauf the children

Liverpool, 1940: thirteen-year-old  Narrative- set in Joan’s home is under threat from the Liverpool during WWII Nazi’s terrifying nightly air-raids. It is  By author with local not an easy time to be a teenager, roots- who herself lived especially with the sweet rationing, through WWII strict curfews and blackouts. Joan and  Detailed descriptions of best friend Doreen love going to the daily life which really cinema until the bombings intensify and help the reader to then even that becomes too dangerous, visualise Whistling in the Dark especially when an army deserter is Shirley Hughes found lurking near their home…

Twelve-year-old Matthew is trapped in  Narrative his bedroom by crippling OCD, spending  Link with ‘The London most of his time staring out of his Eye Mystery’, ‘Wonder’ window. Until the day he is the last and ‘The Curious person to see his next door neighbour's Incident of the Dog in toddler, Teddy, before he goes missing. the Night Time.’ Matthew must turn detective and  Powerful theme, unravel the mystery of Teddy's amongst others, of disappearance. Page-turning, heart- celebrating differences The Goldfish Boy breaking, but ultimately life-affirming, it Lisa Thompson is a book that will make you laugh and cry.

Literary Heritage

Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of  Deals with deep issues the Second World War. A sad, deprived and themes- read ahead child, he slowly begins to flourish under to ensure not too the care of old Tom Oakley - but his new- upsetting for individuals found happiness is shattered by a  Evacuation during WWII summons from his mother back in London

. . . Goodnight Mister Tom Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Michelle Magorian Award.

It is wartime and Carrie and her little  Opening with a brother Nick have been evacuated from flashback their London home to the Welsh hills. In  Set during WWII- an unfamiliar place, among strangers, the evacuation story children feel alone and find little comfort  Compare/contrast with with the family they are billeted with. Goodnight Mr Tom- When Carrie and Nick visit Albert, another particularly Mr Evans evacuee, they are welcomed into and Mr Tom Hepzibah Green's warm kitchen. With  Classic language good Carrie’s War Albert, Hepzibah and Mister Johnny, they begin to settle into their new for developing Nina Bawden surroundings. But before long, their vocabulary loyalties are tested: will they be persuaded to betray their new friends?

Peg-legged pirates, colourful parrots, and  Essential classic read plundered riches—they’re all here in  Rich, challenging Robert Louis Stevenson’s original language- good for seafaring adventure. When young Jim widening literary Hawkins decides to follow a map to vocabulary buried treasure, he must befriend or  Wonderful pirate outsmart memorable characters such as adventure that will pirate Long John Silver, captain Billy appeal to all Bones, and island man Ben Gunn. Treasure Island Mutinous plans, mysterious deaths, and a Robert Louis Stevenson tangle of double crosses keep Jim guessing all the way to the prize.

When Tom is sent to stay at his aunt and  Won The Carnegie uncle's house for the summer, he resigns Medal when it was first himself to endless weeks of boredom. As published in 1958. he lies awake in his bed he hears the  Classic time slip story grandfather clock downstairs strike . .  Strong description .eleven . . . twelve . . . thirteen . . .  Lots of unfamiliar vocab Thirteen! Tom races down the stairs and for children to explore out the back door, into a garden everyone  Twist at the end told him wasn't there. In this enchanted Tom’s Midnight Garden thirteenth hour, the garden comes alive -  SIL ‘Reading Reasoning Philippa Pearce but Tom is never sure whether the Question Pack’ available children he meets there are real or ghosts . . .

When spoiled child Mary Lennox loses  Rich description her family to a cholera outbreak, she  Superb for widening moves to her uncle’s manor surrounded literary vocabulary by a massive garden. Within, Mary  Good for developing discovers a whole new outlook on life empathy and comparing thanks to a supportive household and how characters change the garden’s power of healing. and grow within a text

The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure,  Obvious choice for undertaken by a company of dwarves in modelling fantasy search of dragon-guarded gold. A adventure reluctant partner in this perilous quest  Graphic novel available is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving (abridged version of unambitious hobbit, who surprises even original) and film, which himself by his resourcefulness and skill could be interspersed as a burglar. Encounters with trolls, with the written text if goblins, dwarves, elves and giant time an issue spiders, conversations with the dragon, Smaug, and a rather unwilling presence The Hobbit at the Battle of Five Armies are just J.R.R.Tolkien some of the adventures that befall Bilbo.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an  Useful for exploring 1865 novel written by English author themes Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the  Plot, structure, pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl characters and imagery named Alice falling through a rabbit have been very hole into a fantasy world populated by influential in literature, peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. especially in the fantasy The tale plays with logic, giving the story genre. lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary Alice in Wonderland nonsense genre. Lewis Carroll

Both are world famous animal stories.  Compare and contrast Set in Alaska inthe late 1890s, The Call both stories of the Wild is about Buck, the  Could make links to magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St evolution unit in Science Bernard and a Scottish Collie. The story records the 'decivilisation' of Buck as he answers 'the call of the wild'. In contrast, White Fang relates the tale of The Call of the Wild, White Fang a wolf born and bred in the wild which and Other Stories is civilised by the master he comes to Jack London trust and love.

John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their  The ultimate children’s boat, Swallow, to a deserted island for a classic summer camping trip. Exploring and  Watch and compare to playing sailors is an adventure in itself the film but the island holds more excitement in  Book one of a series so store. Two fierce Amazon pirates, Nancy encourages further and Peggy, challenge them to war and a reading summer of battles and alliances ensues. Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome

Don't you know a sand-fairy when you  A classic pre-read for see one?' I dare say you have often Five Children on the thought about what you would do if you Western Front were granted three wishes. The five  Film version available to children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane compare/contrast and their baby brother - had often talked about it but when they are faced with the grumpy sand-fairy they find it difficult to make up their minds. And Five Children and It that is just the beginning of their E.Nesbit dilemmas. As they discover, there is nothing quite like a wish for getting you into terrible trouble.

Unlike all the other little bulls - who run,  Young children’s picture jump, and butt their heads together in book fights - Ferdinand would rather sit  Limited text that could under his favourite cork tree and smell be developed the flowers. So what will happen when  The history of the text is Ferdinand is picked for the bull fights in fascinating and well Madrid? Beloved all over the world for worth researching- its timeless message of peace, tolerance banned by Hitler- The Story of Ferdinand and the courage to be yourself, this underlying messages. Munro Leaf truly classic story has never been out of  Compare and contrast And Robert Lawson print in the US since its release in 1936. with extracts of ‘Shadow of a Bull’ by Maia Wojciechowska

The five children have grown up and  Shortlisted for the CILIP World War I has begun in earnest. Cyril Carnegie Medal 2016 is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, and the the 2015 Robert is a Cambridge scholar and Jane Guardian Children's is at high school. The Lamb is the grown Book prize. Winner of up age of 11, and he has a little sister, the Costa Children's Edith, in tow. The sand fairy has become Book Award 2014 a creature of stories ... until, for the first  Children could write time in 10 years, he suddenly their own sequel or

Five Children on the Western Front reappears. The siblings are pleased to prequel Kate Saunders have something to take their minds off  Viewpoint the war, but this time the Psammead is  Compare to stories on here for a reason, and his magic might the same theme have a more serious purpose.

Kim is an orphan who earns his living  Classic adventure and begging on the streets of Lahore. One spy story in one- set in day he befriends an aged Tibetan Lama India who, although content to live simply in  Typical Kipling style of India, is a rich and powerful abbot in his language-could own country. When the Lama recruits compare to less Kim as a disciple and then funds his challenging texts-‘The education at an English public school an Just-So Stories’ or adventure begins that will take the ‘Jungle Book’ Kim unlikely pair to the Himalayas on a  Suitable for more Rudyard Kipling thrilling journey of espionage and confident readers enlightenment.

Join the intrepid and eccentric Professor  Available in a comic Liedenbrock and his companions on a version thrilling and dramatic expedition as they  Read other Jules Verne travel down a secret tunnel in a volcano Classics- Around the in Iceland on a journey which will lead World in Eighty Days, them to the centre of the earth. Along 20,000 Leagues Under the way they encounter various hazards the Sea and witness many incredible sights such  All 3 available as DVDs as the underground forest, illuminated  Graphic novel version by electricity, the Great Geyser, the available battle between prehistoric monsters, Journey to the Centre of the Earth the strange whispering gallery, giant Jules Verne insects and the vast subterranean sea with its ferocious whirlpool.

Children will delight in this unabridged  Stunning illustrations- version of Rudyard Kipling’s classics, with a brief explanation Jungle Books One and Two! Not only at the end of the text on does this attractive volume feature the the technique that was beloved tales of Mowgli, the “man cub” used. raised by wolves, and Rikki Tikki Tavi,  Challenging vocabulary- but also the lesser-known but particularly where wonderful stories of Toomai, the boy Kipling has used ‘Thous’ who gets to see elephants dance; to suggest the animals The Jungle Book Quiquern, who saves his Eskimo people are using a language Rudyard Kipling from starvation; and Kotick, the white other than English Scott McKowen seal.

Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is a  Suitable for more hero to his friends and a torment to his confident readers if relations. For wherever there is mischief unabridged or adventure, Tom is at the heart of it. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, rescues an innocent man from the gallows, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer searches for treasure in a haunted Mark Twain house, foils a devilish plot and discovers a box of gold. But can he escape his nemesis, the villainous Injun Joe? 15

 A classic novel with A mean-spirited, miserly old man themes around greed, named Ebenezer Scrooge receives a redemption, regret, chilling visitation from the ghost of his family and love dead business partner, Jacob Marley,  A challenging text, but who informs him that three spirits will can be supported visit him during each of the next three through abridged A Christmas Carol nights. Will the visits help Scrooge mend versions and Charles Dickens his greedy, self-serving ways? films/animations PJ Lynch  Historical context

This is one of the best-loved family  A heart-warming novel stories of all the classics. When Roberta, with themes around Peter and Phyillis’ father is arrested friendship, loyalty, their life changes dramatically. The kindness and bravery children move to the country and the  Film version supports railway that runs nearby becomes their the novel greatest source of adventure. Through  Many opportunities for the new friends that they make they a wide variety of writing come up with a plan to be reunited with  Great for character The Railway Children their beloved father. Will their plan analysis E Nesbit succeed?  Good for widening literary vocabulary

Christmas won't be the same this year  Film versions also for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their available father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But though they may be poor, life for the four March sisters is rich with colour, as they play games, put on wild theatricals, make new friends, argue,

Little Women grapple with their vices, learn from their Louisa May Alcott mistakes, nurse each other through sickness and disappointments, and get into all sorts of trouble.

Minty is the kind of girl who notices  Links very well with things. Pockets of cold air on a stairway. ‘Tom’s Midnight Cries on the wind. Ghosts. Garden’ by Phillipa On night-time jaunts from the house Pearce where she's staying while her mother recovers from an accident, Minty stumbles upon a moondial which takes her back in time. She finds Tom, a sickly kitchen boy, and Sarah, a girl with a birthmark who is only allowed out at

Moondial night because her family think she has Helen Cresswell the mark of the devil... Can Minty save her friends, or will she get stuck in the past...?

Poetry and Playscripts

Alfred Noyes's thrilling poem is charged  Poetry with drama and tension. Ride with the  Picture book highwayman and recoil from the  Recommended by Aidan terrible fate that befalls him and his Chambers sweetheart Bess, the landlord's  Classic narrative poem daughter. The vivid imagery of the writing is matched by Charles Keeping's haunting illustrations which won him

The Highway Man the Kate Greenaway Medal. Alfred Noyes

Gazing at the stars from five storeys up,  Series of poems that smelling the bins from five storeys together tell the below. Overheard arguments, overarching narrative of overheard laughter. A disappearing a young boy’s coming of father and a Mermaid-Queen mother; age from adolescence to statues that sing for flesh and blood; fatherhood bullies who kick you under the table;  Hard-hitting in places perfect red trainers - and the things that but beautiful lurk in the library...Award-winning poet  Deals with bullying, Joseph Coelho's astonishing new parental breakdown, collection is a powerful and moving absent parents poetic narrative about growing up in the  Could be studied city. separately in guided Overheard in a Tower Block reading/whole class Joseph Coelho sessions or could explore the whole collection  Recommended by Jenny Holder, LLP

 Novel in free verse  Would appeal to Twelve-year-old Nick is a football-mad football fans but deals boy who absolutely hates books. In this with ‘bigger’ issues such follow-up to the Newbery-winning as family breakup, novel The Crossover, football, family, bullying, racism love, and friendship take centre stage as  Inventive use of poetic Nick tries to figure out how to navigate form that means it his parents’ break-up, stand up to would be a great focus bullies, and impress the girl of his text for guided dreams. These challenges – which seem reading/whole class even harder than scoring a tie-breaking, reading or targeted game-winning goal – change his life, as reading Booked well as his best friend’s. This energetic clubs/intervention Kwame Alexander novel-in-verse by the poet Kwame  Recommended by Jenny Alexander captures all the thrills and Holder, LLP setbacks, the action and emotion of a World Cup match.

Once upon a time, words began to  Oversized hardback vanish from the language of children. book They disappeared so quietly that at first  Explores through almost no one noticed-until one day, poetry-words (nouns) they were gone. from nature that are no longer commonly used The author has compiled a list of nature and the living things words that have recently been excised they name are often not from the Oxford Junior Dictionary and recognised by adults written beautiful poetry for each. and children. Exquisitely illustrated by Jackie Morris.  Vocabulary Liverpool are now on the Lost Words development The Lost Words Map, which you can view here. Our  Explore a free Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris symbol is rapid wren. supporting resource pack here

 Poetry From the hundreds of poems originally  Wide range of poems to chosen by children themselves, Roger choose from covering McGough has selected a top 100 no classic and child should be without. contemporary verse.  Will have at least one model of the type of 100 Best Poems for Children poetry you are looking Chosen by Children. Edited by for Rodger McGough

This contains poems which cover every  Poetry form and theme, an index of poem  A staple to have in your types, advice for writing poems, advice classroom for reading poems, lots of poetry  It will have at least one activities and some workshop ideas and model of the type of lesson plans. poetry you are looking for

The Works-Key Stage 2 Chosen by Pie Corbett

In their first ever book together, Clare  Poetry and Michael Morpurgo have created a  Good range of classic classic for children, told with the help of poems chosen by the their most beloved poets including Morpurgos Shakespeare, William Blake and Ted  Beautifully designed and Hughes. illustrated- an Pippa goes for a walk in the countryside, interesting way to Where My Wellies Take Me her head full of the poems she loves. present the poems Clare and Michael Morpurgo

As the premier title in the Poetry for  Poetry Kids series, Emily Dickinson introduces  Includes explanations of children to the works of poet Emily the poems Dickinson. Poet, professor, and scholar  Definitions of key words Susan Snively has carefully chosen 35  Beautiful illustrations poems of interest. Each poem is beautifully illustrated by Christine Poetry for Kids Davenier and thoroughly explained by Emily Dickinson an expert.

The first published collection from Hip  Poetry Hop poet Karl Nova has a refreshing  Shortlisted for the directness, honesty and authenticity. Centre for Literacy in Many of the poems are drawn from the Primary Education workshops he does with children and Poetry Award 2018 young people as well as from his  Teaching Sequence performances. The poems capture the available to download rap beat and tone, demonstrating the from CLPE website (Y5) Rhythm and Poetry currency and significance of rap as a  Notes included to show Karl Nova form, especially for young people. the poet’s process

Hughes enters the timeless world of folklore  Playscript and fable and brings home a wonderful  Contains six plays by haul, managing to produce comedy, tragedy Ted Hughes including and magic from the same net, and then to Orpheus, The Pig Organ move effortlessly between them. He makes and The Coming of The stories from familiar elements (the Nativity, or Beauty and the Beast or a quest to save a Kings sickening king), but approaches them from unexpected angles and sets them off in different directions. What characterizes the pieces is the energy Hughes generates not Collected Plays for Children only in the unfolding action but in the Ted Hughes drama of the language itself, which is as robustly up-to-date as it is lyrical.

It was always difficult being Harry  Playscript Potter and it isn't much easier now that  A sequel to the final he is an overworked employee of the Harry Potter book. Ministry of Magic, a husband, and  Also includes a father of three school-age children. conversation between director John Tiffany While Harry grapples with a past that and writer Jack Thorne, refuses to stay where it belongs, his who share stories and youngest son Albus must struggle with insights about reading the weight of a family legacy he never playscripts Harry Potter and the Cursed Child wanted. As past and present fuse  Timeline of events from J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack ominously, both father and son learn the wizard world (prior Thorne the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, to the playscript darkness comes from unexpected narrative) could be a places. stimulus for writing

 Playscript The Tempest like you have never read it  Funny version of the before: quick, fun, and easy to play understand. Written in a play format  An American playwright and designed for 7-18+ actors, kids of all so does include ages, or anyone who wants to enjoy and ‘Americanisms’ loosely understand Shakespeare's play. but this can be a teaching point  Good way of encouraging reading of Shakespeare’s The Tempest For the original scripts, Kids parts of which could be Brendan P Kelso interspersed-a few lines from the original are included One of several of adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays

A beautiful collection of the very best  Poetry poems by Brian Moses. Includes  Brian Moses is a long 'Walking with My Iguana' 'The Lost established and popular Angels', 'Aliens Stole My Underpants', children’s poet 'Behind the Staffroom Door', 'Lost  Includes over 100 of his Magic', 'The Sssnake Hotel', 'A Feather best poems from an Angel', 'Cakes in the Staffroom'  Mix of humorous and and many, many more. more thought provoking poems Lost Magic Brian Moses

 Poetry Discover the weird and wonderful world  Great to promote of martians, woolly saucepans and reading poetry for centrally heated knickers in 100 poems pleasure about science and technology from the delightfully irreverent, Michael Rosen.

Centrally Heated Knickers Michael Rosen

 Poetry Maya Angelou’s brave, defiant poem  Emotive, though- celebrates the courage within each of provoking illustrations us. From the scary thought of panthers support this poem in the park to the unsettling scene of a  A strong stimulus for new classroom, fearsome images are writing dispelled by the power of faith within  Relatable for children – ourselves. written in the first Life Doesn’t Frighten Me person from the point Maya Angelou of view of a child

Non-Fiction

The dead are rising! Up out of the  Graphic novel based on a mouldering pages of history comes the chat talk show format where all show that digs the dirt on some of history's the guests happen to be most famous, infamous and downright zombies incredible men and women. What was the  Great for reading areas- secret of Cleopatra's irresistible personality? will appeal to those Why did Genghis Khan become obsessed interested in history, with world domination? Which scientist is comic fans and those with still radioactive, almost 100 years after her a taste for the gruesome death? Join your host, ADAM MURPHY, as  First in a series so great for he gets the answers to these questions and hooking readers many more, on CORPSE TALK, the show that Corpse Talk: Season 1  Recommended by Jenny brings the dead famous to life! Holder, LLP Adam Murphy

Books are one of humankind's greatest  Inventive ‘autobiography’ forms of expression, and now Book, in a of the book witty, idiosyncratic voice, tells us the inside  Would be a beautiful story. A wonderfully eccentric character addition to a reading with strong opinions and a poetic turn of corner due to the phrase, Book tells of a journey from papyrus gorgeous stylised scrolls to medieval manuscripts to printed black/white illustrations paper and beyond--pondering, along the  Includes quotes/poems way, many bookish things, including the  Would be a great focus for evolution of the alphabet, the library lessons on voice and tone (known to Egyptians as "the healing place of and could inspire Book the soul"), and even book burning. With autobiographical writing John Agard bold, black-and-white illustrations by Neil from the point of view of Packer, Book is a captivating work of other inanimate objects nonfiction by one of England's leading  Recommended by Jenny poets. Holder, LLP

Bill's story-telling skill makes the "How?"  A great non-fiction text to and, just as importantly, the "Who?" of read for pleasure. scientific discovery entertaining and  Jam-packed full of facts accessible for all ages. In this exciting  Combination of text, edition for younger readers, he explores the diagrams, illustrations and mysteries of time and space and how, photographs against all odds, life came to be on this wondrous planet we call home. Along the way we meet several bizarre scientists, A really Short History of Nearly crackpot theories which held sway for far Everything too long, and some accidental discoveries Bill Bryson which changed the way science developed.

Get to grips with how things work inside  Great illustrations and hundreds of machines with this funny explanations extraordinary book that explains the science  Great for: reading for behind technologies and inventions. In this pleasure, Science, D.T extensive encyclopaedia, packed full of simple science for kids, David Macaulay's and modelling beautiful illustrations show the inner explanations The Way Things Work Now workings of each machine from clocks and David Macaulay watches, to jet engines and the internet.

 Engaging N-F text as it How did life begin? Is the earth moving has many pop-ups, tabs beneath our feet? Why does it rain? to pull and flaps to lift Find out the answers to these questions  Supports thinking and and many more in this hands-on discussion on how exploration of our incredible planet. human activity has an impact on the world How the World Works  Models a range of ways Christiane Dorion & Beverley Young of reading and presenting N-F

 Engaging N-F text as it Where do our clothes come from? has many pop-ups, tabs What's the link between gorillas and to pull and flaps to lift mobile phones? Does chocolate grow  Explores how we use on trees? the world’s natural Find out in this hands-on guide to how resources we make the things most of us take for  Models a range of ways granted. of reading and How We Make Stuff presenting N-F Christiane Dorion & Beverley Young  Won the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize

How Machines Work uses pop-ups and  Winner of the Royal award-winning illustrations to Society’s Young People’s demonstrate the technology of six Book Prize 2016, which simple machines. Follow the mad antics champions the best of Sloth and his side-kick Sengi as they science books for under- try to break out of the zoo with the help 14s of levers, pulleys, screws, inclined  A book the reader just planes, wedges and wheels. wants to explore!  Each section shows how Brought to life through pop-ups and the sloth designs an How Machines Work pull-outs meaning you can explore six engineering solution so David Macaulay simple machines, from bicycles and that he can escape cranes to hammers and drills, through  Great for: reading for interactive science. pleasure, Science, D.T and modelling explanations

Discover incredible birds from around  Beautiful lino-cut prints the world with this exquisite picture  Very interesting facts book. From the bird-of-paradise that  Great for: reading for performs its extravagantly colourful pleasure and modelling courtship dance in the rainforest to the information writing bar-tailed godwit that flies thousands of miles across the ocean without stopping, explore the world of Magnificant Birds magnificent birds in this beautiful book, Narisa Togo created in association with the RSPB.

A gloriously illustrated celebration of  An important book to trailblazing women. Women in Science raise the profile of often highlights the contributions of fifty overlooked female notable women to the STEM fields of scientists science, technology, engineering and  Other books available in mathematics, from both the ancient the series: ‘Women in and modern worlds. The book also Sport’ and ‘Women in contains fascinating infographics and an Art’ illustrated scientific glossary. The extraordinary women profiled include well-known figures like the physicist and Women in Science: 50 Fearless chemist Marie Curie, as well as lesser- Pioneers who changed the world known pioneers such as Katherine Johnson, the African-American mathematician who calculated the trajectory of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

Climb Paris's Eiffel Tower, explore  Also A World of Cairo's ancient pyramids, wander the Information by the same busy streets of New Delhi and see the author lights of Shanghai in this whirlwind tour  Great for: reading for of the world's most beautiful cities. pleasure, Geography Print-maker James Brown, has rendered and modelling each city in bold, bright colours, with information writing fascinating facts about the history and culture incorporated into the contemporary designs. London, New A World of Cities York and Tokyo have never looked so James Brown stylish – or so alive.

Botanicum is a stunningly curated guide  Part of the ‘Welcome to to plant life. With artwork from Katie the Museum’ series Scott of Animalium fame, Botanicum Reminiscent of field gives readers the experience of a journals of naturalists fascinating exhibition from the pages of a beautiful book. From perennials to bulbs to tropical exotica, Botanicum is a

Botanicum wonderful feast of botanical knowledge Kathy Willis and Katie Scott complete with superb cross sections of how plants work.

Have you ever wondered what exactly  Winner of the Blue does go bump in the night? From Peter Awards - Best mysteries like Shackleton's ghostly Book with Facts companion to the Loch Ness Monster and friends, read the amazing evidence about these mysterious cases and make up your own mind. Quench your curiosity with this new myth-busting Real-Life Mysteries (and sometimes, myth-confirming!) Susan Martineau & Vicky Barker fascinating kids case study book.

 One in a series of titles Find out about 13 men and women who from Prestel publishing are responsible for famous buildings that supports learning in around the world. Learn how art and design Christopher Wren built St Paul’s  Great for children with a Cathedral after the devastating Great passion for art and Fire of London, and read how American design and aspirational President, Thomas Jefferson, found for future careers 13 Architects Children Should Know time to become a famous architect.  Good layout – the Florian Heine timeline running Prestel Publishing through the book supports the information in the context of history

The first ever picture-book retelling of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of  Fits beautifully with Species; this accessible work brings evolution aspect of the evolution to the younger generation Y6 Science Programme through stylish illustrations and a of Study simple, easy-to-understand text. On The Origin of Species has been the definitive explanation of the theory of evolution since it was first published in 1859. Now molecular biologist and Charles Darwin’s illustrator Sabina Radeva unites her two On the Origin of Species passions to create a 48-page retelling of Sabina Radeva this seminal text.

An ideal world reference atlas for young  Aimed at age 8+ primary school geographers aged 9-11  Organised into sections years at Key Stage 2. Published in covering the UK, association with the Geographical Europe, the world and Association, enabling students to learn continents with more about the world today by exploring detailed larger scale clear and engaging maps, study satellite maps of countries and

Collins Junior Atlas imagery, understand key facts and regions popular for statistics, and learn how maps and focus studies. atlases work.

Use your three-color lens to explore the  We also recommend continents: use your green lens to see ‘Illuminature’ and the landscape, the red lens to see plants ‘Illuminanatomy’ in the and animals, and the blue lens to see same series. cultural highlights and famous buildings.  A journey around the Packed with facts and stunning world with a difference. illustrations, this is an atlas like no other  Great for exploring Illuminatlas from Milan-based design duo human and natural Dr Kate Davies and Carnovsky Carnovsky. geographical features