Colet Court 7+ Reading List

May we take this opportunity of giving you this list, which will, we hope, be helpful to parents visiting bookshops and libraries? Interview candidates may be invited to discuss books which they have read recently. We don’t expect boys to read all the books on this list but to choose a selection from it. These should be books that they can read comfortably by themselves. We would also suggest the reading of picture books too, seeing as the boys really enjoy looking at them, and it is this enjoyment that is key.

Fiction

Paddington series Michael Bond Flat Stanley series Jeff Brown Fantastic Mr. Fox and others Roald Dahl George Speaks and other titles Dick King Smith The Hundred Mile an Hour Dog and other titles Jeremy Strong The Butterfly Lion and other titles Michael Morpurgo Tumtum and Nutmeg series Emily Bearn How to Train Your Dragon series Cressida Cowell Jack Stalwart series Elizabeth Singer Hunt Roman/Egyptian/Greek Tales Raven Mysteries series Marcus Sedgwick

Non Fiction

Horrible Histories Terry Deary and Martin Brown and Mike Phillips Nick Arnold and Tony De Saulles

More suitable for reading aloud, or to be read to:

Winnie the Pooh Series A A Milne Eddie Dickens trilogy Philip Ardagh The Wind in the Willows K Grahame The Just So Stories R Kipling Nonsense Songs E Lear Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll

Happy reading!

Alison Muirhead, Colet Court Librarian and Anna Cuthbertson, Head of Lower First Year April 2012