IoE Recommended Children's Books

My first favourite book Mr Gumpy's Outing is on the list. Woohoo!

Poetry
See Poetry Archive for wide range of poetry and poets including poems by Carol Anne Duffy, Jackie Kay, Valerie Bloom, Michael Rosen, James Berry and Benjamin Zephania.

Fiction
Significant children’s authors include Anthony Browne, Jacqueline Wilson, David Almond, Michael Morpurgo, Philip Pullman, JK Rowling, Malorie Blackman. Anthony Horowitz, Roald Dahl, Maurice Glietzman, Julia Donaldon, Allan and Jane Ahlberg, Nick Sharratt , Jamila Gavin, Louis Sachar and many more.


Foundation Stage
You Choose by Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt
Come to Me, My Chickadee by Carol Thompson
So Much by Trish Cooke and Helen Oxenbury
A Squash and a Squeeze by Julia Donaldson
The Baby Catalogue by Allan and Janet Ahlberg
The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg and Ingman
Mr Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham
This is the Bear by Sarah Hayes and Helen Craig
Did Dig Digging by Margaret Mayo and Alex Ayliffe

KS1
J is for Jamaica by Benjamin Zephaniah and Prodeepta Das (out of print but available on Amazon)
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Lima’s Red Hot Chilli by David Mills and Derek Brazell
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
Wolves by Emily Gravett
Grace and Family by Mary Hoffman
A Dark Dark Tale by Ruth Brown
Biscuit Bear by Mini Grey
Angus Rides the Goods Train by Alan Durant and Chris Riddell
(currently out of print but well worth a read if your local library has a copy)

KS2
Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne
Angry Arthur by Hiawyn Oram and Satoshi Kitamura
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
(Also The Sally Lockhart Mysteries among many others)
Two Weeks with the Queen by Maurice Glietzman
31 Ways to Change the World by 4,386 children, we are what we do and You! by Nick Stanhope
Three Cheers for Inventors by Marcia Williams
The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett and Laura Carlin
Hacker by Malorie Blackman
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
Varjak Paw by SF Said
Skellig by David Almond
The Other Side of Truth by Beverly Naidoo
Storm Breaker (The Graphic Novel) by Anthony Horowitz
Fire Bed and Bone by Henrietta Branford
(currently out of print but worth tracking down).
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick