Please select your child's year below to see our recommended reading lists.

Kindergarten Reading list

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Book Title Author
All Join in (Red Fox picture books) Quentin Blake buy me!
Twinkle, Twinkle, Chocolate Bar: Rhymes For The Very Young John Foster buy me!
Winnie the Witch 6-in-1 Collection Korky Paul and Valerie Thomas buy me!
Meg and Mog Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski buy me!
Jolly Snow Jane Hissey buy me!
Little Bear Lost Jane Hissey buy me!
Where the Wild things Are Maurice Sendak buy me!
A Piece of Cake Jill Murphy buy me!
Don’t Forget The Bacon Pat Hutchins buy me!
Out and About Shirley Hughes buy me!
Bad Tempered Ladybird Eric Carle buy me!
Mr Grumpy’s Outing John Burningham buy me!
I Like Books Anthony Browne buy me!
Dark, Dark Tale Ruth Brown buy me!
Mog Stories Judith Kerr buy me!
Meet Wild Boars Meg Rosoff buy me!
The Secret Path Nick Butterworth buy me!
Mrs Armitage / Mr Magnolia Quentin Blake buy me!
Meet Wild Boars Meg Rosoff buy me!
Long Live Princess Smartypants Babette Cole buy me!
The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss buy me!

Year 1 Reading list

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Book Title Author
Revolting Rhymes Roald Dahl buy me!
Now We are Six (Winnie the Pooh) AA Milne buy me!
The Tough Princess Martin Waddell buy me!
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes (Picture Puffin) Eve Sutton buy me!
The Emperor’s Egg Martin Jenkins buy me!
The Water Hole Graeme Base buy me!
Ferdie and the Falling Leaves Julia Rawlinson buy me!
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig Eugene Trivizas & Helen Oxenbury buy me!
The Orchard Book of Aesop’s Fables Michael Morpurgo buy me!
A World of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie the Pooh) AA Milne buy me!
The Last Noo-noo Jill Murphy buy me!
A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond buy me!
Sally’s Secret (Red Fox picture books) Shirley Hughes buy me!
The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr buy me!
Mr. Archimedes’ Bath (Picture Puffin) Pamela Allen buy me!
Who Sank the Boat? (Picture Puffin) Pamela Allen buy me!
The Great Big Enormous Turnip Helen Oxenbury buy me!
Bangers and Mash: Mud Cake (No. 3A) Paul Groves buy me!
Tell Me Something Happy (Mini Treasure) Joyce Dunbar buy me!
Mrs Wobble the Waitress [Happy Families Series] Allan Ahlberg buy me!
Badger’s Bad Mood (Picture Lions) Hiawyn Oram buy me!
Dogger Shirley Hughes buy me!
Rosie’s Babies Martin Waddell buy me!
The Big Big Sea Martin Waddell buy me!
I Hate School Jeanne Willis & Tony Ross buy me!

Year 2 Reading list

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Book Title Author
Please Mrs. Butler: Verses (Puffin Books) Allan Ahlberg buy me!
Dirty Beasts (Picture Puffins) Roald Dahl buy me!
Bill’s New Frock Anne Fine buy me!
Vanishment of Thomas Tull: Incredible Shrinking Person Bag Janet Ahlberg buy me!
Cyril Bonhamy and the Great Drain Robbery (Red Fox funny stories) Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy buy me!
Dustbin Charlie (Young Puffin Books) Ann Pilling buy me!
The Littlest Dragon (Collins Yellow Storybooks) Margaret Ryan buy me!
The Mousehole Cat Antonia Barber buy me!
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark Jill Tomlinson buy me!
Mini Beasties (Picture Puffin) Michael Rosen buy me!
Dragon Boy (Red Bananas) Pippa Goodhart buy me!
Doughnut Danger (I Am Reading) Anthony Masters buy me!
It’s Not Fair (Kitty & Friends) Bel Mooney buy me!
The Hodgeheg (A young Puffin story book) Dick King-Smith buy me!
A Mouse Called Wolf Dick King-Smith buy me!
Sam’s Duck (Picture Lions) Michael Morpurgo buy me!
The Minpins Roald Dahl buy me!
Catula (Scaredy Cats) Shoo Rayner buy me!
Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age and His Search for Soft Trousers Raymond Briggs buy me!
Fergus Crane Paul Stewart buy me!
Cinderella’s Wedding (Shooting Stars) Paeony Lewis buy me!
Dolphin Boy (Mammoth Read) Julie Bertagna buy me!
The Dinosaur’s Packed Lunch Jacqueline Wilson buy me!

Year 3 Reading list

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Book Title Author
Who’s Been Sleeping in My Porridge?: A Book of Wacky Poems and Pictures Colin McNaughton buy me!
Another Day on Your Foot and I Would Have Died (Poetry Collection) John Agard buy me!
Crack Another Yolk and Other Word Play Poems John Foster buy me!
Fairy Tales (Puffin Books) Terry Jones buy me!
Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie the Pooh) A.A. Milne buy me!
Time Stops for No Mouse (Hermux Tantamoq Adventures) Michael Hoeye buy me!
The Railway Cat (Story Books) Phyllis Arkle buy me!
The Bogwater Witches Kathy Still buy me!
The Story of Holly and Ivy Rumer Godden buy me!
My Naughty Little Sister Dorothy Edwards buy me!
The Little Sea Horse (Story Book) Helen Cresswell buy me!
Nicobobinus (Puffin Books) Terry Jones buy me!
Elephants Don’t Sit on Cars (Piccolo Books) David Henry Wilson buy me!
The Castle of Yew Lucy M. Boston buy me!
Mrs. Pepperpot Stories (Red Fox Summer Reading Collections) Alf Proysen buy me!
A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond buy me!
Adventures of the little wooden horse (Puffin books-no125) Ursula Moray Williams buy me!
Harry the Poisonous Centipede: A Story To Make You Squirm Lynne Reid Banks buy me!
Cliffhanger Jacqueline Wilson buy me!
The Stowaways (Puffin Books) Roger McGough buy me!
Flat Stanley Jeff Brown buy me!
Mrs. Cockle’s Cat (Young Puffin Books) Philippa Pearce buy me!
The Magic Finger Roald Dahl buy me!
George’s Marvellous Medicine Roald Dahl buy me!
Smile! Geraldine McCaughrean buy me!
How to Train Your Dragon (Hiccup) Cressida Cowell buy me!
How to Write Really Badly Anne Fine buy me!
The Worst Witch Jill Murphy buy me!
My Granny’s Great Escape Jeremy Strong buy me!
The Hundred-mile-an-hour Dog (Hundred Mile An Hour Dog) Jeremy Strong buy me!
Bill’s New Frock Anne Fine buy me!
The Enchanted Horse (Young Lions Storybook) Magdalen Nabb buy me!

Year 4 Reading list

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Book Title Author
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: AND Through the Looking Glass (Penguin Classics) Lewis Carroll buy me!
The Jungle Book: Oxford Children’s Classics Rudyard Kipling buy me!
The Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse (Puffin Poetry) Quentin Blake buy me!
Selected Poems for Children Charles Causley buy me!
The Kingfisher Book of Children’s Poetry Michael Rosen (Chosen by) buy me!
Cloud Busting Malorie Blackman buy me!
Lizzie Dripping Helen Cresswell buy me!
Daisy Chain War (Bright Sparks) Joan O'Neill buy me!
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 Beverly Cleary buy me!
The Finders Nigel Hinton buy me!
Anneli the Art Hater Anne Fine buy me!
You Have Ghost Mail (Shock Shop) Terence Blacker buy me!
The Demon Headmaster Gillian Cross buy me!
The Story of Holly and Ivy Rumer Godden buy me!
Meteorite Spoon Philip Ridley buy me!
The Best of Pippi Longstocking: Three Books in One Astrid Lindgren buy me!
Ghostly Beasts Joan Aiken buy me!
The Kingdom Under the Sea (Puffin Books) Joan Aiken buy me!
The 101 Dalmations Dodie Smith buy me!
Black Beauty Anna Sewell buy me!
The Railway Children (Penguin Popular Classics) E. Nesbit buy me!
The Indian in the Cupboard Trilogy Lynne Reid Banks buy me!
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia) C.S. Lewis buy me!
The Battle of Bubble and Squeak Philippa Pearce buy me!
The Lottie Project Jacqueline Wilson buy me!
Matilda (My Roald Dahl) Roald Dahl buy me!
The Saga of Erik the Viking (Puffin Books) Terry Jones buy me!
Stig of the Dump (Puffin Modern Classics) Clive King buy me!
The Sleeping Sword Michael Morpurgo buy me!
Kensuke’s Kingdom Michael Morpurgo buy me!
The Sheep-pig (A young Puffin story book) Dick King-Smith buy me!
The Borrowers Mary Norton buy me!
The Trumpet of the Swan E. B. White buy me!

Year 5 Reading list

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Book Title Author
Read Me 1: A Poem For Every Day Of The Year Gaby Morgan buy me!
Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Popular Classics) Daniel Defoe buy me!
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics) Roger Green buy me!
Treasure Island (Penguin Popular Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson buy me!
The Thieves of Ostia Caroline Lawrence buy me!
Journey to the River Sea Eva Ibbotson buy me!
A Wrinkle in Time (Puffin Modern Classics) Madeleine L'Engle buy me!
Just William Box Set: Richmal Crompton buy me!
The Mouse and His Child Russell Hoban buy me!
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler Gene Kemp buy me!
The Diddakoi Rumer Godden buy me!
The Eighteenth Emergency Betsy Byars buy me!
Little House in the Big Woods (Classic Mammoth) Laura Ingalls Wilder buy me!
Chinese Cinderella (Puffin Modern Classics) Adeline Yen Mah buy me!
The Knight and the Squire Terry Jones buy me!
The Lady and the Squire Terry Jones buy me!
Why the Whales Came Michael Morpurgo buy me!
The Animals of Farthing Wood Colin Dann buy me!
The Secret Garden (Wordsworth’s Children’s Classics) Frances Hodgson Burnett buy me!
Goggle-eyes (Puffin Books) Anne Fine buy me!
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Joan Aiken buy me!
The Snow Spider Trilogy Jenny Nimmo buy me!
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Essential Modern Classics) Judith Kerr buy me!
Wolf Gillian Cross buy me!
The Peppermint Pig (Puffin Books) Nina Bawden buy me!
A Dog So Small (Puffin Books) Pearce Philippa buy me!
South by South East (Diamond Brothers) Anthony Horowitz buy me!

Year 6 Reading list

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Book Title Author
This Poem Doesn’t Rhyme (Puffin Poetry) Gerard Benson buy me!
A Book of Nonsense (Everyman’s Library Children’s Classics) Edward Lear buy me!
A Christmas Carol (Wordsworth Children’s Classics) Charles Dickens buy me!
Kiss the Dust Elizabeth Laird buy me!
The Earthsea Quartet: Ursula Le Guin buy me!
Warrior Scarlet Rosemary Sutcliff buy me!
Boy: Tales of Childhood Roald Dahl buy me!
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien buy me!
Tom’s Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce buy me!
The Stone Book Quartet (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) Alan Garner buy me!
The Night-Watchmen Helen Cresswell buy me!
Ordinary Jack (Bagthorpe Saga) Helen Cresswell buy me!
The Dark is Rising (Puffin Books) Susan Cooper buy me!
Watership Down (Puffin Books) Richard Adams buy me!
Hitler’s Canary Sandi Toksvig buy me!
Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome buy me!
Spilled Water Sally Grindley buy me!
Smith (Puffin Modern Classics) Leon Garfield buy me!
Midnight for Charlie Bone (Children of the Red King) Jenny Nimmo buy me!
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe Penelope Lively buy me!
Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) Philip Pullman buy me!
I Was a Rat!: Or, the Scarlet slippers Philip Pullman buy me!
White Fang (Puffin Classics) Jack London buy me!
Sleepovers Jacqueline Wilson buy me!
Holes Louis Sachar buy me!
The Robert Westall Box Set: The Machine Gunners; The Cats of Seroster; The Watch House; A Time of Fi Robert Westall buy me!
Truckers (Bromeliad Trilogy) Terry Pratchett buy me!
Stormbreaker (Alex Rider 1) Anthony Horowitz buy me!
The Family from One End Street (Puffin Books) Eve Garnett buy me!
Goodnight Mr Tom Michelle Magorian buy me!
The Sword in the Stone (Essential Modern Classics) T. H. White buy me!
Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer buy me!
Thunder and Lightnings Jan Mark buy me!
The Kite Rider Geraldine McCaughrean buy me!
The Wreck of the Zanzibar Michael Morpurgo buy me!
Children on the Oregon Trail (Puffin Books) A.Rutgers Van Der Loeff buy me!
The Tulip Touch Anne Fine buy me!
Dream On Bali Rai buy me!
Noughts and Crosses (Noughts & Crosses Trilogy) Malorie Blackman buy me!
Private Peaceful Michael Morpurgo buy me!
War Horse Michael Morpurgo buy me!
Witch Child Celia Rees buy me!