Recommended Reading

Please find below, the Schools Recommended Reading lists for each year.

Reception
Author	Book Title
Julia Donaldson	Stickman Super Worm Room on the Broom The Smartest Giant in Town Tyrannosaurus Drip
Michael Rosen	We're going on a Bear Hunt Our House Bear Flies High Dear Mother Goose Don't put Mustard in the Custard
Traditional Stories	Little Red Riding Hood The Gingerbread Man Three Billy Goats Gruff
Martin Waddell	Owl Babies
Allan & Janet Ahlberg	Funny Bones
Judith Kerr	The Tiger who came to Tea
Shirley Hughes	Dogger
AA Milne	Winnie the Pooh
Lynley Dodd	Hairy Macalry from Donaldson Dairy
Inga Moore	Six Dinner Sid
Mick Inkpen	The Kipper Series

Year 1
Author	Book Title
Julia Donaldson	Smartest Giant in Town Super Worm Gruffalo Grufalo's Child
James Mayhew	Katie and the Sunflowers
Jon Scieszka	The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Aleksei Tolstoy	The Gigantic Turnip
Dick King-Smith	The Hidgeheg
Michael Bond	A Bear called Paddington
John Burningham	Avocado Baby
Jez Alborough	My Friend Bear
Michael Rosen	We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Shirley Hughes	Dogger
Martin Waddell & Patrick Benson	Owl Babies
Judith Kerr	The Tiger who came to Tea
Jill Murphy	Peace at Last
David McKee	Not now Bernard
Martin Waddell & Helen Oxenbury	Farmer Duck
Allan Ahlberg	The Jolly Postman
Anthony Browne	Zoo Voices in the Park
Beatrix Potter	The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Year 2 - Fiction
Author	Book Title
Oliver Jeffers	The Day the Crayons Quit
Susan Lowell & Jim Harris	The Three Little Javelinas
Allen Ahlberg	Mrs Wobble the Waitress
Peta Coplans	Frightened Fred
Michelle Coxon	The Cat who Lost his Purr
Roald Dahl	The Magic Finger Fantastic Mr Fox
Jan Fearnley	Mr Wolf's Pancakes
Anne Fine	The Diary of a Killer Cat
Mary Hoffman	Grace & Family
Shirley Hughes	The Snow Lady
Judith Kerr	Mog Stories
Dick King-Smith	The Guard Dog Emily's Legs
Kat Lewis	Fiends
Michael Rosen	Cat & Mouse Story
Jeremy Strong	Pirate School: Just a Bit of Wind
Max Velthujis	Frog is Frog
Ian Whybrow	Little Wolf's Book of Badness

Year 2 – Non Fiction
Author	Book Title
Watt's Famous People Stories	Florence Nightingale Louis Braille George Stephenson Thomas Edison
Watt's Great Events Books	The Great Fire of London Gun Powder Plot Battle of Hastings Coronation of Elizabeth II
Usborne Books	The First Encyclopaedia of Science The First Encyclopaedia of the Human Body The First Encyclopaedia of Animals The First Encyclopaedia of Seas & Oceans The Children's World Atlas Pocket Science Books
	Children's Illustrated Dictionary

Year 3
Author	Book Title
Dick King-Smith	Hodgeheg The Sheep Pig The Queen's Nose
Jill Murphy	The Worst Witch
E.B White	Charlotte's Webb
Quentin Blake	Mister Magnolia
Michael Morpurgo	The Butterfly Lion
Anthony Browne	Voices in the Park
Oliver Jeffers	The Day the Crayons Quit
Inga Moore	Six Dinner Sid
Jeff Browne	Flat Stanley
Jeremy Strong	The 100 Mile an Hour Dog
Roald Dahl	The BFG James and the Giant Peach

Year 4
Author	Book Title
CS Lewis	The Chronicles
Michelle Magorian	Goodnight Mr Tom
Clive King	Stig of the Dump
Roald Dahl	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
JK Rowling	Harry Potter Series
Gillian Cross	The Demon Headmaster
Michael Morpurgo	Cool

Year 5
Author	Book Title
Phillipa Pierce	Tom's Midnight Garden
Clive King	Stig of the Dump
Phillip Pullman	Northern Lights
Michael Morpurgo	Kensukes Kingdom Shadow Running Wild War Horse
Alan Garner	Elidor
Geoffrey Tease	Cue for Freedom
Ian Serrelliar	The Silver Sword
Geraldine McCaurghean	Stop The Train Pack of Lies
Rosemary Sutcliff	The Eagle of the Ninth

Year 6
Author	Book Title
Michelle Magorian	Goodnight Mr Tom
Anna Sewell	Black Beauty
Richard Adams	Watership Down
Ted Hughes	The Iron Man
J R Tolkien	The Hobbit
CS Lewis	The Chronicles of Narnia
Frances Hodgson Burnett	The Secret Garden
Michael Morpurgo	Kensukes Kingdom Shadow Running Wild War Horse
Julia Jarman	The Time Travelling Cat Series
Clive King	Stig of the Dump
David Almond	Skellig
Joan Aiken	The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Nina Bawden	Carries War
Ian Serraillier	The Silver Sword

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