English - Suggested Reading Lists

• Year 1

  Title	Author
  A Bear Called Paddington	Michael Bond
  A Dog Called Rod	Tim Hopgood
  A Lion In The Meadow	Margaret Mahy
  Don’t Forget The Bacon	Pat Hutchins
  Funnybones	Janet Ahlberg
  Hairy Maclary From Donaldson’s Dairy	Lynley Dodd
  Katie Morag And The Birthdays	Mairi Hedderwick
  Mister Magnolia	Quentin Blake
  My Cat Likes To Hide In Boxes	Eve Sutton
  Our Big Blue Sofa	Tim Hopgood
  Owl Babies	Martin Waddell
  The Cat In The Hat	Dr. Seuss
  The Elephant And The Bad Baby	Elfrida Vipont
  The Emperor Of Absurdia	Chris Riddell
  The Hodgehed	Dick King-Smith
  The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark	Jill Tomlinson
  Traction Man Is Here	Mini Grey
  We’re Going On A Bear Hunt	Michael Rosen

• Year 2

  Title	Author
  Beaver Towers	Nigel Hinton
  Gobbolino The Witch’s Cat	Ursula Williams
  Pirate School: Just A Bit Of Wind	Jeremy Strong
  Mrs Wobble The Waitress	Allan Ahlberg
  The Adventures Of Captain Underpants	Dav Pikey
  The Diary Of A  Killer Cat	Anne Fine
  The Man Whose Mother Was A Pirate	Margaret Mahy
  Where The Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak

• Year 3

  Title	Author
  It Was A Dark And Stormy Night	Janet Ahlberg
  Story Book: The Railway Cat	Phyllis Arkle
  Lessons For Lucy (Dancing Shoes)	Antonia Barber
  Friendship According To Humphrey	Betty G. Birney
  Dilly The Dinosaur	Tony Bradman
  Flat Stanley	Jeff Brown
  The Secret World Of Polly Flint	Helen Cresswell
  Fantastic Mr Fox	Roald Dahl
  The Magic Finger	Roald Dahl
  Animal Ark: Dog In The Dungeon	Lucy Daniels
  Willa And Old Miss Annie	Berlie Doherty
  My Naughty Little Sister	Dorothy Edwards
  The Killer Cat’s Birthday Bash	Anne Fine
  Bill’s New Frock	Anne Fine
  Picasso Perkins	Adele Geras
  The Reluctant Dragon	Kenneth Grahame
  The Charlie Moon Collection	Shirley Hughes
  Nothing	Mick Inkpen
  All Because Of Jackson	Dick King-Smith
  The Orchard Book Of Greek Myths	Geraldine McCaughrean
  Winnie-The-Pooh	A. A. Milne
  Mrs Cockle’s Cat	Philippa Pearce
  Mrs Pepperpot Stories	Alf Proysen
  Polly And The Wolf Again	Catherine Storr
  Unusual Day	Sandi Toksvig

• Year 4

  Title	Author
  The Clothes Horse And Other Stories	Janet Ahlberg
  Talking To Tigers	Nick Arnold
  The Peppermint Pig	Nina Bawden
  Operation Gadgetman!	Malorie Blackman
  The Children Of Green Knowe	Lucy M. Boston
  Spacebaby	Henrietta Branford
  How To Speak Dragonese	Cressida Cowell
  Lizzie Dripping	Helen Cresswell
  The Demon Headmaster	Gillian Cross
  The Twits	Roald Dahl
  Charlie And The Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl
  Space Race	Barbara Ellen
  War game	Michael Foreman
  The Blabber Mouth Collection	Morris Gleitzman
  The Last Castaways	Harry Horse
  I Know What You Did Last Wednesday	Anthony Horowitz
  The House That Sailed Away	Pat Hutchins
  The Knight And The Squire	Terry Jones
  The Sheep-pig	Dick King-Smith
  The Butterfly Lion	Michael Morpurgo
  The Worst Witch	Jill Murphy
  The Way To Sattin Shore	Philippa Pearce
  The Firework Maker’s Daughter	Phillip Pullman
  The Penultimate Peril	Lemony Snicket
  The Suitcase Kid	Jacqueline Wilson

• Year 5

  Title	Author
  Heidi	Johanna Spyri
  Artemis Fowl	Eoin Colfer
  The Breadwinner Collection	Deborah Ellis
  The Butterfly Lion	Michael Morpurgo
  Charlotte’s Web	E. B. White
  Clockwork	Phillip Pullman
  Danny The Champion Of The World	Roald Dahl
  Dial A Ghost	Eva Ibbotson
  Dragon Rider	Cornelia Funke
  The Eagle Of The Ninth	Rosemary Sutcliff
  Emil And The Detectives	Erich Käster
  The Incredible Adventures Of Professor Branestawm	Norman Hunter
  The Falcon’s Malteser	Anthony Horowitz
  Fire, Bed And Bone	Henrietta Branford
  The Ghost Of Thomas Kempe	Penelope Lively
  Grandpa Chatterji	Jamila Gavin
  Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets	J. K. Rowling
  Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire	J. K. Rowling
  Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone	J. K. Rowling
  Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban	J. K. Rowling
  Heard It In The Playground	Allan Ahberg
  The Hundred And One Dalmatians	Dodie Smith
  The Iron Man	Ted Hughes
  Krindlekrax	Phillip Ridley
  Stig Of The Dump	Clive King

• Year 6

  Title	Author
  The Railway Children	E. Nesbit
  Abomination	Robert Swindells
  Carrie’s War	Nina Bawden
  The Crowstarver	Dick King-Smith
  Awful End	Phillip Ardagh
  From Hereabout Hill	Michael Morpurgo
  Fruit And Nutcase	Jean Ure
  Granny	Anthony Horowitz
  The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien
  Kensuke’s Kingdom	Michael Morpurgo
  Lionboy	Zizou Corder
  The Machine Gunners	Robert Westall
  My Swordhand Is Singing	Marcus Sedgwick
  Once (Once/Now/Then/After)	Morris Gleitzman
  The Other Side Of Truth	Beverley Naidoo
  The Silver Sword	Ian Serraillier
  Skellig	David Almond
  Superfudge	Judy Blume
  Tell Me No Lies	Malorie Blackman
  The Weathermonger	Peter Dickinson
  What Katy Did	Susan Coolidge
  The Wheel Of Surya	Jamila Gavin