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Contents

Contents

Page 3 Local Bookshops

Page 4 Magazines and Newspapers for children

Page 5 Dictionary and Thesaurus recommendations

Pages 6 -7 Foundation Stage

Pages 8 - 9 Year 1

Pages 10 - 12 Year 2





Local Bookshops

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

Nailsworth

01453-832555

Tetbury

01666 500221

http://www.yellow-lightedbookshop.co.uk/index.html

Stroud Bookshop

Stroud

01453 756646

Octavia’s Bookshop

Cirencester

01285 650677

http://www.octaviasbookshop.co.uk/

The Suffolk Anthology

Cheltenham

01242 361 362

http://www.theanthology.co.uk/

Magazines and Newspapers for children

First News

http://www.firstnews.co.uk/

National Geographic for Kids

http://www.ngkids.co.uk/

Aquila

https://www.aquila.co.uk/

Storytime

http://www.storytimemagazine.com/

The Phoenix Comic

http://www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk/

The Week Junior

http://theweekjunior.co.uk/

Whizz Pop Bang!

http://www.whizzpopbang.com/

Okido

http://www.okido.co.uk/

Dictionary and Thesaurus recommendations

Foundation Stage & Key Stage 1

Oxford First Dictionary

Oxford Phonics Spelling Dictionary

My First Dictionary (DK)

Usborne First Illustrated Dictionary

Usborne First Illustrated Maths Dictionary

Oxford First Illustrated Maths Dictionary

Oxford First Thesaurus

My First Ladybird Thesaurus

Key Stage 2

Oxford Primary Dictionary

Oxford Primary Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary

Collins Junior Illustrated Dictionary

Collins Primary Illustrated Dictionary

Usborne Junior Illustrated Maths Dictionary

Oxford Primary Thesaurus

Scholastic Children’s Thesaurus

Descriptosaurus by Alison Wilcox

Foundation Stage

Fiction/Picture books

Elmer and the Rainbow by David McKee

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Pam Adams

You Can Be My Friend by Lauren Child

Kipper’s Rainy Day by Mick Inkpen

The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers

The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord

The Snail and the Whale Big Book by Julia Donaldson

One Warm Fox by Nick Butterworth

The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram

We’re Going on a Bearhunt by Michael Rosen

Emma’s Lamb by Kim Lewis

Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear? By Martin Waddell

Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne

Ruby’s Rainy Day by Rosemary Wells

The Polar Bear Son by Lydia Dabcovich

The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson and Paul Howard

Our Cat Cuddles by Gervase Phinn

Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs

Albert and Little Henry by Jez Alborough

Up, Up and Away by Tom McLaughlin

Dinosaur Roar! by Henrietta Strickland

You Must Bring a Hat by Simon Philip

The Messy Book by Maudy Powell-Tuck

The Most Wonderful Thing in the World by Vivian French

Foundation Stage

Poetry

Wriggle And Roar- Julia Donaldson

A Squash and a Squeeze - Julia Donaldson

Rumble In The Jungle- Giles Andrea

All Join In - Quentin Blake

Down The Back of The Chair - Margaret Mahy

Mother Goose’s Action Rhymes - Axel Scheffler

Each Peach Pear Plum - Janet and Allen Ahlberg

My Village, Rhymes from Around the World - Danielle Wright (ed)

Stomp, Chomp, Big Roars! Here Come the Dinosaurs - Kaye Umansky

Here’s a Little Poem - Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters (ed)

Non-fiction

Oxford Very First Atlas

Oxfam’s Around the World Series

Collins’ Big Cat Non-Fiction Series

A Book of… - Ashley Evanson

DK First Facts

Year 1

Fiction/Picture books

The Famishing Vanishing Mahoosive Mammoth by Hollie Hughes

A Beginner’s Guide to Bearspotting by Michelle Robertson

A Brave Bear by Sean Taylor

A House in the Woods by Inga Moore

A New Room for William by Sally Grindley

A Place to call Home by Alexis Deacon

A Walk in the Park by Anthony Browne

Olga da Polga by Michael Bond

Alfie Outdoors by Shirley Hughes

Basil the Bear Club by Janie Louise Jones

Boa’s Bad Birthday by Jeanne Willis

The Glump and the Peeble by Wendy Meddour

My Mum And Dad Make Me Laugh- Nick Sharratt

Giraffes Can’t Dance- Giles Andreae

A Dark, Dark Tale- Ruth Brown

Not Now Bernard- David McKee

Jack And The Beanstalk- Nick Sharratt

The Bog Baby- Jeanne Willis

Shhh!- Sally Grindley

Again- Emily Gravett

Funny Bones - Allan Ahlberg

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch - Ronda Armitage

Let’s Go to the Zoo - Ellen Weiss

Shoe Baby - Joyce Dunbar

Traction Man - Mini Grey

Whatever Next - Jill Murphy

Year 1

Poetry

Monster Poems- John Foster (ed)

I Had A Little Cat- Collected Poems For Children

The Spider And The Fly- Tonya Di Terlizzi

Down By The River- Grace Hallwood

Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar- John Foster

Commotion In The Ocean—Giles Andrea

The Carnival Of the Animals- Jack Prelutsky

Tasty Poems- Jill Bennet (ed)

Machine Poems- Jill Bennet (ed)

Whizz Bang Orang-Utan - John Foster

Non-fiction

Project Science Collection

Usborne’s My First Animal Library

My Body Series - Sally Hewitt and Angela Royston

A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davis

National Geographic Readers

Living in the UK - Annabelle Lynch

What I like Series - Liz Lennon

Year 2

Fiction and short stories

Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp by Philip Pullman

Ahemed and the Feather Girl by Jane Ray

Akimbo and the Snakes by Alexander McCall Smith

Wait for Me- Margaret Mahy

Kids Night In- Margaret Mahy

Tickled Onions- Morris Gleitzman

M Is For Magic- Neil Gaiman

The Story Shop- Nikki Gamble

Just So Stories- Rudyard Kipling

Stories From Our Night Sky- Melanie Drewery

Don’t Kiss The Frog- Princess Stories With Attitude- Fiona Waters

Animal Tales- Naomi Adler

Emily Brown and the Thing - Cressida Cowell

Flat Stanley - Jeff Brown

The Snow Lady - Shirley Hughes

Esio Trot - Roald Dahl

Claude Going for Gold - Alex T Smith

Daisy and the Trouble with Life—Kes Gray

The Sheep-Pig - Dick King-Smith

The Cherry Tree Farm - Enid Blyton

The Giggler Treatment - Roddy Doyle

Zoo Boy - Sophie Thompson

Atticus Claw - Jennifer Gray

Paddington Bear - Michael Bond

Dirty Bertie - Alan Macdonald

The Unlikely Outlaws - Philip Ardagh

Year 2

Comic/Graphic novels/Picture books

Katie Morag’s Island Stories- Mairi Hedderwick

Jin And The Beanstalk- Raymond Briggs

Seven For A Secret- Laurence Anholt

The Green Ship- Quentin Blake

Once There Was A Hoodie- Sam McBratney

The Fish who Could Wish- Korky Paul

Amazing Grace- Mary Hoffman

Come Away From The Water Shirley- Shirley Hughes

The Day Of Ahmed’s Secret- FP Heide

The Monster Bed- Jeanne Willis

Six Dinner Sid- Inga Moore

The Boy Who Cried Wolf- Tony Ross

Dear Greenpeace- Simon James

Farmer Duck- Martin Waddell

Winnie The Witch- Korky Paul

Katie Morag And The Two Grandmothers- Mairi Hedderwick

Beegu- Alexis Deacon

Dogger- Shirley Hughes

Orion and the Dark - Emma Yarlett

On Sudden Hill - Linda Sarah

This Book Just Ate my Dog! - Richard Byrne

I Want my Hat Back - Jon Klassen

Oi Frog - Kes Gray

Penguin in Peril - Helen Hancocks

The Something - Rebecca Cobb

Have You Seen Elephant? - David Barrow

Year 2

Poetry

Please Mrs Butler- Ahlberg

The Conjuror’s Rabbit- John Mole

The Dragons Are Singing Tonight- Jack Prelutsky

Bad Bad Cats- Roger Mcgough

Now We Are Six- A A Milne

Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats- T S Eliot

Plum- Tony Mitton

Mustard Custard Grumble Belly And Gravy- Michael Rosen

Boo To a Goose- John Mole

You Can’t Catch Me- Michael Rosen

The Frog who Dreamed She Was An Opera Singer- Jackie Kay

Come On Into My Tropical Garden- Grace Nichols

Non-fiction

Macmillan’s I Wonder Why… series

Our Special World Series - Liz Lennon

Ladybird Histories

Usborne Look Inside… Series

Watt’s Events Series

Watt’s Famous People Series

Year 3


The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig

The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame

The Secret World of Polly Flint by Helen Cresswell

Mister Magnolia by Quentin Blake

Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch

Storms Cup by Cavanaugh Foyle

A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary

Misty’s Twilight by Marguerite Henry

A Boy Called M.O.U.S.E. by Penny Dolan

Aftershock by Bernard Ashley

Aquilla by Andrew Norriss

Atticus Claw by Jennifer Gray

Aunt Severe and the Toy Thieves by Nick Garlick

Awful end by Philip Ardagh

B.A.S.E Camp by Rob Childs

Baker’s Magic by Diane Zahler

Bambert’s Books of Missing Stories by Reinhardt Jung

Barkbelly by Cat Weatherhill

Bearkeeper by Josh Lacey

Black Dog by Levi Pinfold

Boom! By Mark Haddon

Borgon the Axeboy and the Prince's Shadow by Kjartan Poskitt

Broken Glass by Sally Grindley

Children of Winter by Berlie Doherty

Clover Twig by Kaye Umansky

The Firework Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman

Year 3


George And The Dragon- Chris Wormell

Zoo- Anthony Browne

Meerkat Mail- Emily

The Heart And The Bottle- Oliver Jeffers

The Three Wolves And The Big Bad Pig- Eugene Trvizas

The Dog Who Could Dig- Jonathan Lang

The Minpins- Roald Dahl

The Hunter- Paul Geraghty

The Selfish Giant- Oscar Wilde – Michael Foreman

Robot City Guide To Robots- P Collicut

Hilda and the Troll - Luke Pearson

Fairytale Comics - Emily Carroll

Superhero Origin Stories - John Sazaklis

The Day the Crayons Quit & The Day the Crayons Came Home - Drew Daywalt

The Lion Inside - Rachel Bright

Journey - Aaron Becker

A Child of Books - Sam Winston & Oliver Jeffers

The Tear Thief - Carol Ann Duffy

The Dragon Machine - Helen Ward

The Wonder - Faye Hanson

Winter’s Child - Angela McAllister

Castles - Colin Thompson

The Lost Stars - Hannah Cumming

The Egg - M.P. Robertson

Star Seeker - Theresa Heine

Tell Me A Dragon - Jackie Morris

Year 3

Poetry

Laughter is an Egg- J Agard

Meeting midnight- Carol Ann Duffy

Revolting Rhymes- Roald Dahl

Runny Rabbit- Shel Silverstein

Child’s Garden Of Verses- Robert L Stevenson

Hot Like Fire- Valerie Bloom

The Sun, Dancing- Charles Causely

Sky In the Pie- Roger Mcgough

Crack another Yolk and Other word Play Poems- John Foster (ed)

A Spell of Words- Selected Poems For Children- Elizabeth Jennings

Non-fiction

Philip Ardagh’s Shortcut to History Collection

Science in Action series “How it works”

Miles Kelly’s 100 Facts…

DK Reference Books

Year 4


The Happy Prince and other stories- Oscar Wilde

Hans Anderson’s Fairy Tales

The Kingdom Under The Sea- Jan Aiken

Whodunnit Detective Stories- Phillip Pulman

Simply The Best- Joan Aiken

Kibitzers And Fools- Taback Simms

Boy- Roald Dahl

Leon Stumble’s Book Of Stupid Fairy Tales- Doug Macleod

Watch Me- Margaret Mahy

More Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark- Alvin Schwartz

Tales Of Wisdom And Wonder- Malachy Doyle

Winter Sleepwalker And Other Stories- Joan Aiken

Perry Angel’s Suitcase - Glenda Millard

A Handful of Gold - Joan Aiken

Groosham Grange - Anthony Horowitz

The Time Travelling Cat - Julia Jarman

Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor - Jon Scieszka

The Children of Green Knowe - Lucy M. Boston

Ice Palace - Robert Swindells

Kasper in the Glitter - Philip Ridley

The Finding - Nina Bawden

Time Travelling with a Hamster - Ross Welford

The Name of this Book is Secret - Pseudonymous Bosch

The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart

The Case of the Missing Moonstone - Jordan Stratford

The Great Wave of Tamarind - Nadia Aguiar

Year 4


Bravo! Mr Shakespeare - Marcia Williams

Who’s Afraid Of the Big Bad Book- Lauren Child

The Rascaly cake- Korky Paul

The Pied Piper Of Hamlin- Michael Morpurgo

Gorilla- Anthony Browne

The Flower- John Light

Wombat Goes Walkabout- J Baker

The Wolves In The Walls- N Gaiman

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain – Verna Aardema

Leon and the Place Between - Graham Baker-Smith

Clown - Quentin Blake

Asterix - René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo

Tintin - Hergé

Primates - Jim Ottaviani

Bone - Jeff Smith

Alice in Wonderland - Martin Powell

Beauty and the Beast - Luke Feldman

Tusk Tusk - David McKee

War and Peas - Michael Foreman

Cinderella - Charles Perrault and Loek Koopmans

A Sailing Boat in the Sky - Quentin Blake

Millie’s Marvellous Hat - Satoshi Kitamura

Mr Bear and the Bear - Frances Thomas and Ruth Brown

Cloud Tea Monkeys - Mai Peet

Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore - William Joyce

The Book with no Pictures - B.J. Novak

Year 4

Poetry

Funky Chickens - Benjamin Zephaniah

We are Britain- Benjamin Zephaniah

What is truth- Ted Hughes

Meeting midnight- Carol Ann Duffy

Dirty Beasts - Roald Dahl

Where the Sidewalk Ends- Shel Silverstein

The Giving Tree- Shel Silverstein

Kings and Queens - Eleanor Fargeon

The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight- Jack Prelutsky

Early In the Morning - Charles Causley

The Rattle Bag- Ted Hughes & Seamus Heaney (ed)

Bad Bad Cats- Roger Mcgough

The Mighty Slide - Allan Ahlberg

Non-fiction

Animal Science Collection - Nicola Davies

The World in Infographics - Jon Richards

Horrible Histories

Usborne History

Year 5


Unreal - Paul Jennings

Undone - Paul Jennings

Feet and Other Stories - Jan Mark

Short Stories - Edgar Allan Poe

A Tale Of Troy- Lancelyn Roger Green

Loop - Brian Caswell

The Chronicles of Harris Burdick- Chris Van Allsburg

Shakespeare Stories For Younger Readers - E Nesbit

Pizza Cake - Morris Gleitzman

The Great Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Seed Folks - George Fleischman

Under The Weather- Stories About Climate Change - Tony Bradman

Varjak Paw - SF Said

The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid-Banks

The Boggart - Susan Cooper

The Silver Sword - Ian Serralier

Trillions - Nicholas Fisk

Secrets of Glass Mountain - Blair Polly

Between the Stars - DM Potter

The Iron Woman - Ted Hughes

2 Weeks with the Queen - Morris Gleitzman

The Machine Gunners - Robert Westall

Cloud Busting - Malorie Blackman

The Divide - Elizabeth Kay

The Blurred Man - Anthony Horowitz

The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd

Year 5


True Story Three Little Pigs - Jon Scieszka

Voices In The Park- Anthony Browne

How To Live Forever- Colin Thompson

The Lady Of Shalott- Ill: Charles Keeping

The Night Of The Gargoyles- D Weisner

The Savage- David Almond

Robin Hood- Dorling Kindersley Classics

Where The Forest Meets The Sea- J. Baker

Oliver Twist & Other Great Dickens Stories - Marcia Williams

War Boy- Michael Foreman

Mirrormask - Neil Gaiman

Sword of Legend - Jonny Zucker

The Lion and the Unicorn - Shirley Hughes

Archie’s War - Marcia Williams

Snow-White - Josephine Poole and Angela Barrett

Snow White in New York - Fiona French

The Green Ship - Quentin Blake

Brother Eagle Sister Sky - Susan Jeffers

Wild Child - Jeannie Willis

FArTHER - Grahame Baker-Smith

Voices in the Park - Anthony Browne

A River - Marc Martin

Varmints - Helen Ward

The Viewer - Gary Crew

The Houdini Box - Brian Selznick

Footpath Flowers - JonArno Lawson

Year 5

Poetry

This Poem Doesn’t Rhyme – Gerard Benson

Shades Of Green- Ann Harvey

Out Of The Dust - Karen Hesse

Cloudbusting - Malorie Blackman

The Pedalling Man - Russell Hoban

Collected Poems For Children - Ted Hughes

The New Oxford Book Of Children’s Verse - Neil Phillip

What Is The Truth- Ted Hughes

Song Of The City- Gareth Owen

When I Dance - James Berry

Buns for The Elephant - Mike Harding

Stopping For death - Carol Ann Duffy

Manifold Manor- Philip Gross

Non-fiction

Horrible Geography

Lonely Planet Kids Series

Murderous Maths Series

Science Quest Series

Year 6


Unbearable - Paul Jennings

Uncovered - Paul Jennings

Finders, Losers - Jan Mark

Tales Of Ancient Egypt- Lancelyn Roger Green

The Circuit: stories From The Life Of A Migrant Child- Francisco Timinez

Rip Van Winkle And Other Stories- Washington Irving

Deadly- Paul Jennings, Morris Gleizman

Extraordinary cases Of Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Shadow Cage- Philippa Pearce

The Thief In The Village And Other Stories- James Berry

The Game - David Grimstone

A Seven Letter Word - Kim Slater

North of Nowhere - Liz Kessler

Half a Creature from the Sea - David Almond

Midnight is a Place - Joan Aiken

His Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman

Cosmic - Frank Cottrell Boyce

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne

Pig Heart Boy - Malorie Blackman

We are Giants - Amber Lee Dodd

Charmed Life - Diana Wynne-Jones

Lionboy—Zizou Corder

The Village by the Sea - Anita Desai

Once - Morris Gleitzman

Holes - Louis Sachar

After Tomorrow - Gillian Cross

Year 6


Biggles - W.E. Johns

Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson

Black & White – David Macaulay

King Kong- Anthony Browne

Looking For Atlantis- Colin Thompson

The Highwayman- Alfred Noyes

Tuesday- D Weisner

The Snow Goose- Paul Gallico

The Rabbits- Shaun Tan

Oliver Twist- Dorling Kindersley Classics

The Day I Swapped My Dad…- Neil Gaiman

The Way Home- Libby Hathorn & G Rogers

Artemis Fowl the Graphic Novel - Eoin Colfer

Kidnapped - Alan Grant

Explorer - Kazu Kibuishi

How the Leopard got his Spots: The Graphic Novel - Sean Tulien and Rudyard Kipling

Angry Arthur - Hiawyn Oram and Satoshi Kitamura

The Tin Forest - Helen Ward and Wayne Anderson

The Cats in Krasinski Square - Karen Hesse and Wendy Watson

Anne Frank - Josephine Poole and Angela Barrett

A Child’s Garden - Michael Foreman

Unforgotten - Tohby Riddle

The Lonely Tree - Nicholas Halliday

The Great Serum Race - Debbie S. Miller

Freebird - Saviour Pirotta

Black Dog - Levi Pinfold

Year 6

Poetry

Falling Up- Shel Silverstein

Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein

Peacock Pie - Walter de La Mer

A March Colt - Ted Hughes

A Thought fox - Ted Hughes

Season Songs - Ted Hughes

Talking Turkeys - Benjamin Zephaniah

Oldest Girl In The World- Carol Ann Duffy

Oxford Book Of Story Poems - Michael Harrison (ed)

Love That Dog - Sharon Creech

A Year Full Of Poems - M Harrison

The Tree That Time Built- Mary Ann Hoberman

The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere - Henry W Longfellow

Poetry In the Making - Ted Hughes

Does W Trouble You - Gerard Benson

Collected Poems For children - Charles Causley

Non-fiction

DK’s Computer Coding series

The Very Bloody History of Britain - John Farman

History and Geography Quest Series

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