Recommended Reading List
RECOMMENDED READING LIST YEAR 1
The first book of nature
Nicola Davies
The Storm Whale
Benji Davies
Cops and Robbers
Allen Ahlberg
I am Henry Finch
Alexis Deacon Viviane Schwatz I can read! Oxford Poetry for 5 year olds John Foster Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion
Alex Smith
Out for the count
Anne Fine
Cat in the Hat
Dr Seuss
The Dark
Lemony Snicket
The Girl with the Parrot on her Head
Daisy Hirst
Man on the Moon
Simon Bartram
Paper Dolls
Julia Donaldson
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
Room on a Broom
Julia Donaldson
Lost and Found
Oliver Jeffers
I want my Hat Back
Jon Klassen
RECOMMENDED READING LIST YEAR 2
A Pig called Heather
Harry Oulten
Beegu
Alexis Deacon
Choosing Crumble
Michael Rosen
Flat Stanley
Jeff Brown
Lord of the Forest
Caroline Pitcher
Ottoline At Sea
Chris Riddell
What’s the Time, Wilfred Wolf
Jessica Barrah
The Heart and the Bottle
Oliver Jeffers
The Hodgeheg
Dick King-Smith
The Jolly-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon The invisible world of the Microbes
Jonny Duddle
The Enchanted Wood
Enid Blyton
Five on a Treasure Island
Enid Blyton
Milly Molly Mandy
Joyce Lankester Brisley
BFG
Roald Dahl
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots
Michael Morpurgo
Nicola Davies
RECOMMENDED READING LIST YEAR 3 Shackleton’s Journey
William Grill
The Thirteen Storey Treehouse
Andy Griffiths
The Fastest Boy in the World
Elizabeth Laird
The one hundred mile an hour dog
Jeremy Strong
The World’s Worst Children
David Walliams
Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll
A Boy and a Bear in a Boat
Dave Shelton
A Hen in the Wardrobe
Wendy Meddour
Anna Hibiscus
Atinuke; Lauren Tobia
Dreams of Freedom
Amnesty International
Ivan the Terrible
Anne Fine
Just William
Richmal Crompton
My Dad’s a Birdman
David Almond
One thousand and one Arabian NIghts
Geraldine McCaughrean
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
Chris Riddell
Harry Miller’s Run
David Almond
Black Dog
Levi Penfold
Poetry Pie
Roger McGough
RECOMMENDED READING LIST YEAR 4
Elephant in the Garden
Michael Morpurgo
Boy in the Tower
Polly Ho-Yen
Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
Fortunately the Milk
Neil Gaitman
Goth Girl and the Ghost of Mouse
Chris Riddell
How to Train a Dragon
Cressida Cowell
Mr Stink
David Walliams
Stig of the Dump
Clive King
Family from One End Street
Eve Garnett
The Firework Maker’s Daughter
Phillip Pullman
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
The Little Prince
Antonie de Saint - Exupery
Running Wild
Michael Morpurgo
The Odyssey
Gillian Cross
The Illiad
Gillian Cross
Werewolf Club Rules
Joseph Coelho
RECOMMENDED READING LIST YEAR 5 The Girl who walked on air
Emma Carroll
Journey to the River Sea
Eva Ibbotson
The Sleeping Army
Francesca Simon
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Phillip Pearce
Two weeks with the Queen
Morris Gleitzman
Whistling in the Dark
Shirley Hughes
Skellig Savage Millions Cosmic Frank Ballet Shoes
David Almond
Black Hearts in Battersea
Joan Aitken
Carrie’s War
Nina Bawden
Catherine Certitide
Patrick Modiano
A Thief in the Village and Other stories
James Berry
Sleepwalkers
Vivienne Schwatz
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salmon Rushdie
I am David
Anne Holm
Listen to the Moon
Michael Morpurgo
Swallows and Amazons
Arthur J Ransome
Box of Delights
John Masefield
Moon Juice
Kate Wakeling
Frank Cottrell Boyce Noel Streatfield
RECOMMENDED READING LI RECOMMENDED READING LIST YEAR 6 The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde
Watership Down
Richard Adams
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Graham
Street Child Company of Ghosts Beowulf
Bertie Doherty
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Where Sidewalks Ends
Shel Silverstein
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Grimms
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
One dog and his boy
Eva Ibbotson
Greyhound of a Girl
Roddy Doyle
Strange Star
Emma Carroll
Private Peaceful
Michael Morpurgo
The Dark Wild
Piers Torday
The Death Defying Pepper Roux
Geraldine McCaughrean
The Matchbox Diary
Paul Fleischman
The Wonderland
Michaela Morgan
Michael Morpurgo
The first book of nature
Nicola Davies
The Storm Whale
Benji Davies
Cops and Robbers
Allen Ahlberg
I am Henry Finch
Alexis Deacon Viviane Schwatz I can read! Oxford Poetry for 5 year olds John Foster Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion
Alex Smith
Out for the count
Anne Fine
Cat in the Hat
Dr Seuss
The Dark
Lemony Snicket
The Girl with the Parrot on her Head
Daisy Hirst
Man on the Moon
Simon Bartram
Paper Dolls
Julia Donaldson
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
Room on a Broom
Julia Donaldson
Lost and Found
Oliver Jeffers
I want my Hat Back
Jon Klassen
RECOMMENDED READING LIST YEAR 2
A Pig called Heather
Harry Oulten
Beegu
Alexis Deacon
Choosing Crumble
Michael Rosen
Flat Stanley
Jeff Brown
Lord of the Forest
Caroline Pitcher
Ottoline At Sea
Chris Riddell
What’s the Time, Wilfred Wolf
Jessica Barrah
The Heart and the Bottle
Oliver Jeffers
The Hodgeheg
Dick King-Smith
The Jolly-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon The invisible world of the Microbes
Jonny Duddle
The Enchanted Wood
Enid Blyton
Five on a Treasure Island
Enid Blyton
Milly Molly Mandy
Joyce Lankester Brisley
BFG
Roald Dahl
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots
Michael Morpurgo
Nicola Davies
RECOMMENDED READING LIST YEAR 3 Shackleton’s Journey
William Grill
The Thirteen Storey Treehouse
Andy Griffiths
The Fastest Boy in the World
Elizabeth Laird
The one hundred mile an hour dog
Jeremy Strong
The World’s Worst Children
David Walliams
Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll
A Boy and a Bear in a Boat
Dave Shelton
A Hen in the Wardrobe
Wendy Meddour
Anna Hibiscus
Atinuke; Lauren Tobia
Dreams of Freedom
Amnesty International
Ivan the Terrible
Anne Fine
Just William
Richmal Crompton
My Dad’s a Birdman
David Almond
One thousand and one Arabian NIghts
Geraldine McCaughrean
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
Chris Riddell
Harry Miller’s Run
David Almond
Black Dog
Levi Penfold
Poetry Pie
Roger McGough
RECOMMENDED READING LIST YEAR 4
Elephant in the Garden
Michael Morpurgo
Boy in the Tower
Polly Ho-Yen
Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
Fortunately the Milk
Neil Gaitman
Goth Girl and the Ghost of Mouse
Chris Riddell
How to Train a Dragon
Cressida Cowell
Mr Stink
David Walliams
Stig of the Dump
Clive King
Family from One End Street
Eve Garnett
The Firework Maker’s Daughter
Phillip Pullman
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
The Little Prince
Antonie de Saint - Exupery
Running Wild
Michael Morpurgo
The Odyssey
Gillian Cross
The Illiad
Gillian Cross
Werewolf Club Rules
Joseph Coelho
RECOMMENDED READING LIST YEAR 5 The Girl who walked on air
Emma Carroll
Journey to the River Sea
Eva Ibbotson
The Sleeping Army
Francesca Simon
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Phillip Pearce
Two weeks with the Queen
Morris Gleitzman
Whistling in the Dark
Shirley Hughes
Skellig Savage Millions Cosmic Frank Ballet Shoes
David Almond
Black Hearts in Battersea
Joan Aitken
Carrie’s War
Nina Bawden
Catherine Certitide
Patrick Modiano
A Thief in the Village and Other stories
James Berry
Sleepwalkers
Vivienne Schwatz
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salmon Rushdie
I am David
Anne Holm
Listen to the Moon
Michael Morpurgo
Swallows and Amazons
Arthur J Ransome
Box of Delights
John Masefield
Moon Juice
Kate Wakeling
Frank Cottrell Boyce Noel Streatfield
RECOMMENDED READING LI RECOMMENDED READING LIST YEAR 6 The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde
Watership Down
Richard Adams
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Graham
Street Child Company of Ghosts Beowulf
Bertie Doherty
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Where Sidewalks Ends
Shel Silverstein
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Grimms
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
One dog and his boy
Eva Ibbotson
Greyhound of a Girl
Roddy Doyle
Strange Star
Emma Carroll
Private Peaceful
Michael Morpurgo
The Dark Wild
Piers Torday
The Death Defying Pepper Roux
Geraldine McCaughrean
The Matchbox Diary
Paul Fleischman
The Wonderland
Michaela Morgan
Michael Morpurgo
